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AIX 6 Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

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Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Course Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi Unit 1. System hardware overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 What is a partition? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Physical partition (PPAR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 Logical partition (LPAR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Partition characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 Partition resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9 Logical partition resource example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12 IBM POWER5 LPAR-capable systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13 POWER Hypervisor functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14 The big picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16 Advanced partition features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-18 Dynamic partitioning (DLPAR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-19 Processor concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-21 Micro-partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-23 Virtual I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-24 Virtual I/O example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-26 Capacity on Demand (CoD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-28 PowerVM Standard Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-30 POWER6 system highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-32 IBM POWER5 processor-based systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-34 IBM System p5 servers information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-36 p5-520 and p5-520Q overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-37 p6-P520 system overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-40 p5-550 and p5-550Q overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-41 p6-P550 system overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-43 p5-560Q and p5-570 overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-44 Midrange functional differences - per CEC node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-47 p5-590 and p5-595 overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-49 I/O drawer options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-52 Example I/O drawer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-53 POWER6 remote I/O drawer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-54 Service Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-55 Hardware Management Console (HMC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-57 New Web user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-59 Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-61 Exercise: System hardware overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-62 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-63
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Unit 2. System management tools and documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-2 2.1. System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-3 Topic 1 objectives: System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-4 AIX administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-5 System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-7 SMIT main menu (ASCII) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-9 SMIT main menu (Motif) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-11 Dialog screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-13 Output screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-16 SMIT log and script files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-17 smit command options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-19 IBM Systems Director Console for AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-21 Lets review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-23 2.2. Using AIX documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-25 Topic 2 objectives: Configuring AIX documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-26 Viewing AIX 6.1 documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-27 Accessing the documents from a Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-28 AIX 6.1 documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-29 Search AIX 6.1 documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-31 Search scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-32 Lets review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-33 2.3. Web-based System Manager (WebSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-35 Topic 3 objectives: Web-based System Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-36 Web-based System Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-37 Accessing the Web-based System Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-39 Using the Web-based System Manager (1 of 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-41 Using the Web-based System Manager (2 of 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-42 Using the Web-based System Manager (3 of 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-43 Installation for a remote client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-44 Configure the HTTP (Web) server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-47 Remote client installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-48 Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-50 Exercise 2: Web-based System Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-51 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-52 Unit 3. Software installation and maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-2 AIX product offerings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-3 Packaging definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5 Bundles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-6 Fileset naming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-7 Software updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-9 Software states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-11 Software Installation and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-13 Install and Update Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-14 Install Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-16 Software inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-18
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List installed software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fix repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fix Central Web site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . More fix services screen (from Fix Central) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software Service Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software Maintenance and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . instfix command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exercise: AIX software installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Unit 4. Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 Listing of /dev directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 Device configuration database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 List all supported devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7 List all defined devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9 Device states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11 Self-configuring devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-13 SMIT Devices menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14 Device addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16 Location code format for PCI devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17 Location code example: Non-SCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20 Location code format for SCSI devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22 Location code example for SCSI device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24 Physical location codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-25 Listing device physical locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27 Adding an ASCII terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-28 Attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29 Device nomenclature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-31 Add a TTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-32 Documenting hardware configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34 Checkpoint (1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-36 Checkpoint (2 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-37 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-38 Unit 5. The Object Data Manager (ODM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2 5.1. Introduction to the ODM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3 What is the ODM? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4 Data managed by the ODM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5 ODM components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7 ODM database files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8 Device configuration summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10 Configuration Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11 Location and contents of ODM repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12 How ODM classes act together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14 Data not managed by the ODM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15
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Lets review: Device configuration and the ODM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-16 ODM commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-17 Changing attribute values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-19 Using odmchange to change attribute values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-21 5.2. ODM database files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-23 Software vital product data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-24 Software states you should know about . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-26 Predefined devices (PdDv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-28 Predefined attributes (PdAt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-32 Customized devices (CuDv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-34 Customized attributes (CuAt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-37 Additional device object classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-38 Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-40 Exercise 4: The Object Data Manager (ODM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-41 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-42 Unit 6. System boot: Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-2 AIX startup process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-3 Loading the boot image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-4 Boot disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-7 Creating the boot image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-10 Boot device alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-13 HMC remote access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-15 HMCv6: Server management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-17 HMCv6: Activate a partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-19 HMCv6: Activating partition with console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-21 Hardware Management Console (HMC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-22 HMCv7: Server management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-24 HMCv7: Activate partition operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-25 HMCv7: Activate partition options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-26 How to fix a corrupted BLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-27 Working with bootlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-30 Starting System Management Services (SMS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-32 Working with bootlists in SMS (1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-34 Working with bootlists in SMS (2 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-36 Service processors and boot failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-37 Accessing a system that will not boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-39 Booting in maintenance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-41 Working in maintenance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-42 Progress and reference codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-44 Firmware checkpoints and error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-47 Firmware fixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-48 Getting firmware updates from the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-50 Checkpoint (1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-52 Checkpoint (2 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-53 Exercise: System boot: Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-54 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-55
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System boot: Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2 AIX startup process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3 AIX initialization overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4 rc.boot 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6 rc.boot 2 (part 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8 RAM file system and rootvg (part 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10 rc.boot (part 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11 RAM file system and rootvg (part 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13 rc.boot 3 (part 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14 rc.boot 3 (part 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16 rc.boot summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18 Boot problem management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20 Configuration Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23 Config_Rules object class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25 Device names and CD-ROM example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27 The alog facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29 System hang detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-32 Configuring shdaemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-34 System resource controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-36 Using the system resource controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-37 Checkpoint (1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-38 Checkpoint (2 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-39 Exercise: System Boot: Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-40 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-41 Unit 8. Installation and initial configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2 Installation methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3 Installation process (from CD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5 Console and language definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7 Installation and Maintenance menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 Installation and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10 Method of installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11 Installation disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13 Primary language environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-14 Install Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-15 Install More Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-16 Begin installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-17 Installation flowchart - all systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-18 Configuration Assistant menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-19 Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-21 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-22 Unit 9. The Logical Volume Manager (LVM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.1. LVM terminology and concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Benefits of the LVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Volume group limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-6 Scalable volume groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-8 Configuration limits for volume groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-10 Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-12 Striping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-13 Mirroring and striping with RAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-15 RAID levels you should know about . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-17 9.2. LVM data representation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-19 LVM identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-20 LVM data on disk control blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-22 LVM data in the operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-24 Contents of the VGDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-25 VGDA example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-27 The logical volume control block (LVCB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-30 How LVM interacts with ODM and VGDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-32 ODM entries for physical volumes (1 of 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-34 ODM entries for physical volumes (2 of 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-36 ODM entries for physical volumes (3 of 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-37 ODM entries for volume groups (1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-38 ODM entries for volume groups (2 of 2)) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-39 ODM entries for logical volumes (1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-40 ODM entries for logical volumes (2 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-41 ODM-related LVM problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-42 Fixing ODM problems (1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-44 Fixing ODM problems (2 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-46 9.3 Working with volume groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-49 Logical Volume Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-50 SMIT Volume Groups menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-52 List all volume groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-53 List volume group contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-54 List volume group information (physical volumes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-55 List volume group information (logical volumes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-56 Add a Volume Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-57 Add a Scalable Volume Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-59 Set Characteristics of a Volume Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-60 Change a Volume Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-61 Logical track group (LTG) size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-63 Hot spare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-65 Extending and reducing volume groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-68 Remove a Volume Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-70 Activate/Deactivate a volume group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-71 Import/Export a Volume Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-73 Advanced RAID support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-74 9.4 Logical volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-77 Logical volume policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-78 SMIT Logical Volumes menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-80 Show logical volume characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-81 Add a Logical Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9-83
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Remove a Logical Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-84 Set Characteristics of a Logical Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-85 List all logical volumes by volume group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-87 Show logical volume characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-88 Reorganize a Volume Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-89 9.5. Physical volumes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-91 SMIT Physical Volumes menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-92 List physical volume information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-93 List logical volumes on a physical volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-94 List a physical volume partition map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-95 Add or move contents of physical volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-96 Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-98 Exercise: The Logical Volume Manager (LVM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-99 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-100 Unit 10. Storage management with LVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2 10.1. Mirroring and quorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-3 Mirroring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-4 Stale partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6 Creating mirrored LVs (smit mklv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8 Scheduling policies: Sequential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-10 Scheduling policies: Parallel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-12 Mirror write consistency (MWC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-14 Adding mirrors to existing LVs (mklvcopy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-17 Mirroring rootvg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-19 Mirroring volume groups (mirrorvg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-21 VGDA count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-23 Quorum not available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-24 Nonquorum volume groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-26 Forced varyon (varyonvg -f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-28 Physical volume states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-30 10.2. Disk replacement techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-33 Disk replacement: Starting point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-34 Procedure 1: Disk mirrored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-36 Procedure 2: Disk still working . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-38 Procedure 2: Special steps for rootvg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-40 Procedure 3: Disk in missing or removed state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-42 Procedure 4: Total rootvg failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-44 Procedure 5: Total non-rootvg failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-46 Frequent disk replacement errors (1 of 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-48 Frequent disk replacement errors (2 of 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-49 Frequent disk replacement errors (3 of 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-50 Frequent disk replacement errors (4 of 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-52 10.3. Export and import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-55 Exporting a volume group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-56 Importing a volume group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-58 importvg and existing logical volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-60
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importvg and existing file systems (1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-61 importvg and existing file systems (2 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-63 importvg -L (1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-65 importvg -L (2 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-67 Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-68 Exercise: Storage management with LVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-69 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10-70 Unit 11. Working with file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-2 Uses of logical volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-3 What is a file system? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-5 Why have multiple file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-7 Standard file systems in AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-9 /etc/filesystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-11 Structure of a journaled file system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-13 Structure of an inode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-15 File system fragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-16 Variable number of inodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-18 Allocation group size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-20 Compressed file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-22 Large file enabled file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-24 Journal log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-26 JFS versus JFS2 file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-28 Extended attributes (EA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-31 File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-33 Listing file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-34 List all mounted file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-36 Add/Change/Show/Delete File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-38 Working with journaled files systems in SMIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-39 Add a standard journaled file system on a previously defined logical volume . . .11-40 Add a Standard Journaled File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-42 Working with enhanced journaled file systems (JFS2) in SMIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-45 Add an enhanced journaled file system (JFS2) on a previously defined logical volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-46 Add an Enhanced Journaled File System (JFS2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-48 Mount a File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-49 Change/Show Characteristics of a Journaled File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-52 Change/Show Characteristics of an Enhanced Journaled File System . . . . . . . .11-54 Dynamically shrinking a JFS2 file system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-55 Remove a Journaled File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-57 Add a RAM file system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-59 Add a UDF file system on a DVD-RAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-60 System storage review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-62 Listing free disk space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-64 Control growing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-66 The skulker command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-68 Listing disk usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11-70
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Fragmentation considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Defragmenting a file system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Verify a file system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exercise: Working with file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Unit 12. Paging space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2 What is paging space? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-3 Paging space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5 Sizing paging space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-7 Paging space placement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-9 Checking paging space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-11 Adding paging space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13 Change paging space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-15 Remove paging space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-17 Problems with paging space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-19 Documenting paging space setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-20 Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-21 Exercise 10: Paging space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-22 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-23 Unit 13. Backup and restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-2 Backup devices - diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-3 Backup devices - tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-5 Backup device - read/write optical drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-7 Backup device - 7210 external DVD-RAM drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-10 SMIT backup menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-11 rootvg backup process - mksysb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-12 /image.data file for rootvg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-14 /bosinst.data file for rootvg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-16 rootvg - Back Up the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-21 rootvg - Back Up This System to Tape/File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-22 mksysb image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-24 Back Up a Volume Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-26 Back Up a Volume Group to Tape/File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-27 Restoring a mksysb (1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-29 Restoring a mksysb (2 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-30 Remake/Restore a non-rootvg volume group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-32 mksysb - ISO9660 burn image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-34 mksysb - UDF DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-36 rootvg - Back Up This System to CD (ISO9660) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-37 rootvg - Back Up This System to ISO9660 DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-38 rootvg - Back Up This System to UDF DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-39 Back Up a Volume Group to CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-40 Back Up a Volume Group to ISO9660 DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-41
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Back Up a Volume Group to UDF DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-42 Back up by filename . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-43 Back up by filename examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-45 Backup a File or Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-47 Back up a file system by inode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-49 Back up a file system by inode using SMIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-51 restore command (1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-52 restore command (2 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-54 Restore a File or a Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-55 Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-56 Exercise: Using backup and restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-57 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13-58 Unit 14. TCP/IP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-2 TCP/IP pseudo device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-3 Network adapters and interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-5 Interface device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-6 Adapter device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-7 TCP/IP startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-8 # smit tcpip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-10 /etc/rc.tcpip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-12 Network super daemon (inetd) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-14 /etc/inetd.conf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-16 /etc/services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-18 Name resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-19 Address resolution protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-24 Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-26 Static routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-28 Dynamic routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-31 Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-33 Exercise: TCP/IP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-34 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14-35 Unit 15. Error log and syslogd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-2 15.1. Working with the error log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-3 Error logging components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-4 Generating an Error Report using SMIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-6 The errpt command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-9 A summary report (errpt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-11 A detailed error report (errpt -a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-12 Types of disk errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-14 LVM error log entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-16 Maintaining the error log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-17 15.2. Error notification and syslogd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-19 Error notification methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-20 Self-made error notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15-22
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ODM-based error notification: errnotify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . syslogd daemon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . syslogd configuration examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Redirecting syslog messages to error log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Directing error log messages to syslogd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Checkpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exercise: Error logging and syslogd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Appendix A. Checkpoint solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1 Appendix B. Performance and workload management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1 Unit objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2 Basic performance analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3 Performance analysis tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-5 Identify CPU-intensive programs: ps aux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-8 Identify high priority processes: ps -elf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-10 Monitoring CPU usage: sar -u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-12 AIX tools: tprof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-14 Monitoring memory usage: vmstat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-16 AIX tools: svmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-18 Monitoring disk I/O: iostat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-20 AIX tools: filemon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-23 topas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-25 There is always a next bottleneck! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-26 Workload management techniques (1 of 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-27 Workload management techniques (2 of 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-28 Workload management techniques (3 of 3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-30 Simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-32 Tool enhancements for micro-partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-34 Performance Diagnostic Tool (PDT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-37 Enabling PDT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-39 cron control of PDT components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-41 PDT files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-43 Customizing PDT: Changing thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-45 Customizing PDT: Specific monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-48 PDT report example (part 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-49 PDT report example (part 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-51 Unit summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-53 Appendix C. Quick reference: HP-UX to AIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-1 Appendix D. Quick Reference: Solaris to AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-1

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Course Description
AIX 6 Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals Duration: 5 days Purpose
The purpose of this course is to show a UNIX system administrator how they can install, customize, and administer the AIX 6 operating system.
Audience
Anyone responsible for the system administrative duties in implementing and managing systems capable of running the AIX 6 operating system. This course is targeted for SUN Solaris, HP-UX, or other UNIX system administrators with at least twelve months of experience in UNIX administration and other relevant education.
Prerequisites
The students attending this course should have at least one year of UNIX system administration experience and be able to: Write shell scripts Install a UNIX operating system Install and configure layered products Start up and shut down the system Monitor system usage and performance Create user accounts Solve user and system problems Create, configure, and back up file systems Configure and manage networks

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Objectives
On completion of this course, students will be able to: Describe how to install the AIX 6 operating system Describe and use the system management tools Install software bundles and filesets Perform system startup and shutdown Manage physical and logical devices Perform file system management Perform and restore system backups Configure TCP/IP Locate and analyze system error logs
Contents
Unit 1: System hardware overview Unit 2: System management tools and documentation Unit 3: Software installation and maintenance Unit 4: Devices Unit 5: ODM Unit 6: System boot: Hardware Unit 7: System boot: Software Unit 8: AIX 6 installation and initial configuration Unit 9: The Logical Volume Manager Unit 10: Storage management with LVM Unit 11: Managing file systems Unit 12: Paging space Unit 13: Backup and restore Unit 14: TCP/IP configuration Unit 15: Error logs and syslogd
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Documentation References
The following will be used to indicate where a particular referenced document can be located: Info Center Indicates that a referenced document can be found in the AIX Information Center. This is located at: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries Indicates that a referenced document can be found in the IBM Redbooks Web site. This is located at: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com
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General product information can be found on-line at http://www.ibm.com.

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Day 1
Welcome Unit 1 - System hardware overview Exercise 1 - System hardware overview Unit 2 - System management tools and documentation Exercise 2 - System management tools and documentation Unit 3 - Software installation and maintenance Exercise 3 - Software installation
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Unit 4 - Devices Unit 5 - The Object Data Manager (ODM) Exercise 4 - The Object Data Manager (ODM) Unit 6 - System boot: Hardware Exercise 5 - System boot: Hardware Unit 7 - System boot: Software
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Unit 8 - Installation and initial configuration Exercise 6 - System boot: Software Unit 9 - The Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Exercise 7 - LVM Unit 10 - Storage management with LVM (Topic 1)
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Unit 10 - Storage management with LVM (Topics 2 and 3) Exercise 8 - Storage management with LVM Unit 11 - Working with file systems Exercise 9 - Working with file systems Unit 12 - Paging space Exercise 10 - Paging space Unit 13 - Backup and restore (start)
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Unit 1. System hardware overview

What this unit is about
This unit is an introduction to the IBM System p5 and p6 product range, including workstations, workgroup servers, enterprise servers, large scale servers, and Logical Partitioning.
What you should be able to do

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Identify basic architecture elements and hardware components of the IBM System p5 and p6 servers Describe the features of Logical Partitioning
How you will check your progress

Accountability: Checkpoint Machine exercises
References
All documents can be found in the AIX Information Center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries General product information can be found on-line at: http://www.ibm.com
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Unit 2. System management tools and documentation

This unit introduces the tools that are available for system administration.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Outline the benefits of the system management tools available with AIX 5L and AIX 6. Define the functionality of SMIT Define how SMIT activity is logged Define the use of the Web-based System Manager Use AIX Web-based documentation

Accountability: Checkpoint questions Machine exercises
References
Online Online AIX Version 6.1 Operating System and Device management AIX Version 6.1 Web-based System Manager Administration Guide
Note: References listed as online above are available at the following address: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v6r1/index.jsp
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Unit 3. Software installation and maintenance

This unit covers the process of installing and maintaining optional software products and updates.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Define the package definitions and naming conventions Identify how software products and updates are installed and managed on the system

Accountability: Checkpoint questions Exercise
References
SG24-7559 Online AIX Version 6.1 Differences Guide AIX 6.1 Installation and Migration
Note: References listed as Online above are available at the following address: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v6r1/index.jsp
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This unit presents important information regarding devices in an AIX environment, including information about device states and device location codes.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Describe the purpose of the ODM predefined and customized databases Describe the different states of a device Describe the format of device location codes Use SMIT to add, show, change, and delete devices

Accountability: Checkpoint questions
References
SG24-7559 Online Online AIX Version 6.1 Differences Guide AIX 6.1 Installation and migration AIX 6.1 Operating System and device management

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This unit describes the structure of the Object Data Manager (ODM). It shows the use of the ODM command line interface and explains the role of the ODM in device configuration. Specific information regarding the function and content of the most important ODM files is also presented.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Describe the structure of the ODM Use the ODM command line interface Explain the role of the ODM in device configuration Describe the function of the most important ODM files

Accountability: Checkpoint questions Lab exercise
References
Online Online Online AIX Version 6.1 Command Reference volumes 1-6 AIX Version 6.1 General Programming Concepts: Writing and Debugging Programs AIX Version 6.1 Technical Reference: Kernel and Subsystems
Note: References listed as online above are available via the IBM Systems Information Center at the following address: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v6r1/index.jsp
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Unit 6. System boot: Hardware

This unit describes the boot process up to the point of loading the boot logical volume. It describes the content of the boot logical volume and explains how it can be re-created if it is corrupted. The unit also discusses the meaning of the LED codes and describes how they can be analyzed to fix boot problems.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Describe the process of loading an AIX boot image Describe the contents of the boot logical volume (BLV) Fix a corrupted boot logical volume View and modify boot lists Use System Management Services (SMS) Boot into maintenance mode to access a system that will not boot Interpret LED codes and console messages displayed during boot

References
AIX Version 6.1 Operating system and device management Note: References listed as online above are available at the following address: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v6r1/index.jsp Online SA38-0509 SG24-5496 RS/6000 Eserver pSeries Diagnostic Information for Multiple Bus Systems Problem Solving and Troubleshooting in AIX 5L
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This is the second of two units that deal with the AIX startup process. This unit describes the later stages of the process.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Describe the functions of rc.boot, phases 1, 2, and 3 Describe how devices are configured during AIX initialization Interpret LED codes and console messages displayed during boot Describe the use of the alog facility List the basic features of system hang detection Describe the System Resource Controller (SRC) Analyze and solve boot problems

References
AIX Version 6.1 Operating system and device management Note: References listed as Online above are available at the following address: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v6r1/index.jsp Online SA38-0509 SG24-5496 RS/6000 Eserver pSeries Diagnostic Information for Multiple Bus Systems Problem Solving and Troubleshooting in AIX 5L
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This unit describes the process of installing the AIX operating system.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: List the different installation and media options available List the steps necessary to install the AIX base operating system Identify the tasks that can be carried out using the Configuration Assistant

Accountability: Checkpoint questions
References
SG25-7559 SC23-6629 SC23-6630 Online IBM AIX Version 6.1 Differences Guide AIX Version 6.1 Release Notes AIX Version 6.1 Expansion Pack Release Notes AIX Version 6.1 Installation and migration
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Unit 9. The Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

This unit explains concepts important for understanding the logical volume manager (LVM) used in AIX and provides information about how to work with this facility.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Define key LVM-related terms Explain where LVM information is stored Manage volume groups, logical volumes, and physical volumes

Accountability: Checkpoint questions Lab exercise
References
Online Online AIX Version 6.1 Commands reference AIX Version 6.1 Operating System and Device management
Redbooks Redbooks Redbooks
AIX Storage Management Redbook (GG24-4484) Logical Volume Manager from A to Z: Introduction and Concepts Redbook (SG24-5432) Logical Volume Manager from A to Z: Troubleshooting and Commands Redbook (SG24-5433)
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This unit discusses several advanced LVM-related concepts and explains how to complete various important storage and disk management tasks. The procedures required to complete the tasks discussed involve the use of LVM.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Set up mirroring appropriate to your needs Describe the quorum mechanism Explain the physical volume states used by LVM Replace a disk under different circumstances Export and import volume groups

Accountability: Lab exercises Checkpoint questions
References
Note: References listed as Online above are available at the following address: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v6r1/index.jsp Redbooks Redbooks Redbooks AIX Storage Management Redbook (GG24-4484) Logical Volume Manager from A to Z: Introduction and Concepts Redbook (SG24-5432) Logical Volume Manager from A to Z: Troubleshooting and Commands Redbook (SG24-5433)
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This unit covers important concepts and procedures related to AIX 5L file systems.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Describe journaled file system (JFS) and enhanced journaled file system (JFS2) features Add a JFS or JFS2 file system Change characteristics of a file system Add a RAM file system Add a UDF file system on a DVD-RAM

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Unit 12. Paging space

This unit presents the key concepts related to paging space.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Define why paging space is required in AIX List and monitor the paging space utilization of the system Perform corrective actions to rectify too little or too much paging space scenarios

References
SG24-7559 Online Online AIX Version 6.1 Differences Guide AIX 6.1 Operating system and device management AIX 6.1 Installation and migration
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Unit 13.Backup and restore

This unit describes how a system can be backed up and restored.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: List the different backup methods supported through SMIT and on the command line Create a customized installable system image backup

Accountability: Checkpoint questions Exercises
References
Online AIX Version 6.1 Operating System and Device management
Note: References listed as Online above are available at the following address: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v6r1/index.jsp SG24-5765 SG24-5766 SG24-7414 SG24-7559 AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.2 Edition AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.3 Edition AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.3 Addendum IBM AIX Version 6.1 Differences Guide
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Unit 14.TCP/IP configuration

This unit introduces basic TCP/IP configuration in the AIX environment. It is assumed that you already have an understanding of basic network concepts such as IP addressing and netmasks.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Describe the basic components of AIX networking Describe how the network is configured during AIX startup Locate the AIX network configuration files Describe name resolution concepts Describe how to configure a DNS client Describe IP routing concepts and how to configure static routes Use network status tools to gather information about the network Define static and dynamic routing and determine when its appropriate to use each of these types of routing

Accountability: Checkpoint Machine exercises
References
Info Center Info Center Info Center System Management Guide: Communications and Networks Communications Programming Concepts AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.3 Edition, Chapter 7. Networking
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Unit 15.Error log and syslogd

This unit provides an overview of the error logging facility available in AIX and shows how to work with the syslogd daemon.

After completing this unit, you should be able to: Analyze error log entries Identify and maintain the error logging components Describe different error notification methods Log system messages using the syslogd daemon

Accountability: Lab exercise Checkpoint questions
References
Info Center General Programming Concepts: Writing and Debugging Programs (Chapter 4. Error-Logging Overview) AIX Version 6.1 Commands reference General Programming Concepts: Writing and Debugging Programs (Chapter 4. Error-Logging Overview)
Online Online
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