AIX 5L System Administration II: Problem Determination. Student Notebook

Build on your basic AIX system administrator skills and learn advanced topics to become a highly effective AIX system administrator. Develop and build advanced AIX system administrator skills, such as system problem determination, and learn to carry out the appropriate steps to fix problems. Customizing the AIX system is heavily emphasized. Mastering the skills you learn in this course is invaluable to your success when you take: * IBM Certification Test 222: pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L V5.3 After completing this course, you should take: * AIX 5L System Administration III: Performance Management (Q1318) For more information about additional training courses, see the AIX – pSeries course roadmaps.

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Table of contents :
Front cover……Page 1
Contents……Page 3
Trademarks……Page 13
Course Description……Page 15
Agenda……Page 17
Unit 1. Problem Determination Introduction……Page 19
1.1 Problem Determination Introduction……Page 21
1.2 pSeries Product Family……Page 43
Unit 2. The Object Data Manager (ODM)……Page 55
2.1 Introduction to the ODM……Page 57
2.2 ODM Database Files……Page 75
Unit 3. System Initialization Part I……Page 93
3.1 System Startup Process……Page 95
3.2 Solving Boot Problems……Page 111
Unit 4. System Initialization Part II……Page 131
4.1 AIX Initialization Part 1……Page 133
4.2 AIX Initialization Part 2……Page 149
Unit 5. Disk Management Theory……Page 175
5.1 Basic LVM Tasks……Page 177
5.2 LVM Data Representation……Page 197
5.3 Mirroring and Quorum……Page 221
Unit 6. Disk Management Procedures……Page 245
6.1 Disk Replacement Techniques……Page 247
6.2 Export and Import……Page 267
Unit 7. Saving and Restoring Volume Groups and Online JFS/JFS2 Backups……Page 281
7.1 Saving and Restoring the rootvg……Page 283
7.2 Alternate Disk Installation……Page 307
7.3 Saving and Restoring non-rootvg Volume Groups……Page 319
7.4 Online JFS and JFS2 Backup; JFS2 Snapshot; VG Snapshot……Page 323
Unit 8. Error Log and syslogd……Page 335
8.1 Working With Error Log……Page 337
8.2 Error Notification and syslogd……Page 353
Unit 9. Diagnostics……Page 369
9.1 Diagnostics……Page 371
Unit 10. The AIX System Dump Facility……Page 391
10.1 Working with System Dumps……Page 393
Unit 11. Performance and Workload Management……Page 421
11.1 Basic Performance Analysis and Workload Management……Page 423
11.2 Performance Diagnostic Tool (PDT)……Page 457
Unit 12. Security……Page 477
12.1 Authentication and Access Control Lists (ACLs)……Page 479
12.2 The Trusted Computing Base (TCB)……Page 501
Appendix A. Command Summary……Page 523
Appendix B. Checkpoint Solutions……Page 541
Appendix C. RS/6000 Three-Digit Display Values……Page 549
Appendix D. PCI Firmware Checkpoints and Error Codes……Page 563
Appendix E. Location Codes……Page 567
Appendix F. Challenge Exercise……Page 569
Appendix G. Auditing Security Related Events……Page 573
Glossary……Page 591