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    Published on August 1, 2026

    AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

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    Provide focused training for experienced UNIX administrators on how to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser IBM Power server partitioned environment. The course is based on AIX 7.3 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 10 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

    AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals
    Table of contents
    1. Short Summary
    2. Modality
    3. Cost
    4. Publish date
    5. Retire date
    6. Duration
    7. Agenda
    8. Objectives
    9. Brand/Department
    10. Product
    11. Skill Level
    12. Key Topics
    13. Audience
    14. Labs
    15. Follow-on Courses
    Short Summary

    Install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser IBM Power server partitioned environment. The course runs AIX 7.3.

    Modality

    Classroom or Instructor-led online

    Cost

    paid

    Amount

    300

    Publish Date

    August 1, 2026

    Retire Date

    June 30, 2027

    Duration

    40 hours

    Agenda

    Day 1

    • Welcome
    • Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power servers
    • Exercise 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power servers
    • Unit 2: AIX system management tools
    • Exercise 2: Using system management tools in AIX
    • Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
    • Exercise 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
    • Unit 4: System configuration and devices
    • Exercise 4: System configuration and devices

    Day 2

    • Unit 5: TCP/IP networking
    • Exercise 5: TCP/IP implementation
    • Unit 6: System startup and shutdown
    • Exercise 6: System startup and shutdown
    • Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions
    • Exercise 7: Configuring logical partitions
    • Unit 8: AIX installation
    • Exercise 8: AIX installation
    • Unit 9: Working with the Logical Volume Manager

    Day 3

    • Exercise 9: Working with LVM
    • Unit 10: File systems administration
    • Exercise 10: File systems administration
    • Unit 11: The Object Data Manager
    • Exercise 11: The Object Data Manager
    • Unit 12: LVM metadata
    • Exercise 12: LVM metadata issues
    • Unit 13: Disk management procedures
    • Exercise 13: Disk management procedures

    Day 4

    • Unit 14: Backup and restore
    • Exercise 14: Backup and restore
    • Unit 15: Error monitoring
    • Exercise 15: Error monitoring
    • Unit 16: System initialization - I
    • Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Parts 1-3)

    Day 5

    • Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Part 4)
    • Unit 17: System initialization - II
    • Exercise 17: System initialization - II
    • Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility
    • Exercise 18: System dump
    • Unit 19, Advanced install techniques Topic 1: Alternate disk installation
    • Exercise 19, Advanced install techniques Topic 1: Alternate Disk
    • Unit 19, Advanced install techniques Topic 2: Using multibos
    • Exercise 19: Advanced install techniques Topic 2: multibos
    • Optional Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities
    • Optional Appendix B: Printers and queues
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    Objectives
    • Install the AIX operating system, filesets, and RedHat Package Manager (RPM) packages
    • Perform system startup and shutdown
    • Discuss and use system management tools such as System Management Interface Tool (SMIT)
    • Manage physical and logical devices
    • Discuss the purpose of the logical volume manager
    • Perform logical volume and file system management
    • Perform and restore system backups
    • Use the AIX error log and RMC as tools in problem determination
    • Configure Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking
    Brand/Department

    Power Systems - AIX

    Product

    AIX 7.2 Enterprise Edition

    Skill Level

    Instructor: intermediate, Student: basic

    Key Topics

    AN14G, AN14, Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems, UNIX, Kornshell

    Audience
    • This intermediate course is intended for system administrators who need training to support their transition to supporting AIX running on IBM Power processor based systems in a multiuser Power (System p) partitioned environment.
    Labs

    Yes

    Follow-on Courses

    Not provided.