Book description
This redbook is designed as a study guide for professionals wishing
to prepare for the certification exam to achieve: IBM eServer
Certified Specialist - pSeries AIX System Administration. The
system administration certification validates a broad scope of AIX
administration skills and the ability to perform general AIX
software system maintenance.
This redbook helps AIX administrators seeking a comprehensive and
task-oriented guide for developing the knowledge and skills
required for the certification. It is designed to provide a
combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general
understanding of the subject matter. It also provides sample
questions that will help in the evaluation of personal progress and
provide familiarity with the types of questions that will be
encountered in the exam.
This redbook does not replace practical experience you should have,
but is an effective tool that, when combined with education
activities and experience, should prove to be a very useful
preparation guide for the exam. Due to the practical nature of the
certification content, this publication can also be used as a
desk-side reference. So, whether you are planning to take the
pSeries AIX System Administration certification exam, or if you
just want to validate your AIX system administration skills, this
redbook is for you.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Certification overview
- System startup problem handling
- Hardware assistance
-
System and software installation
- Base Operating System installation
- Advanced Options installation
- Configuration Assistant
- Understanding maintenance levels
- Software packaging
- Installing optional software and service updates
- Maintaining optional software (applying updates)
- Creating installation images on a hard disk
- Alternate disk installation
- Quiz
- Exercises
- Object Data Manager
- Storage management, LVM, and file systems
- System paging space
- System backup, restores, and availability
- System Resource Controller administration
-
Network administration
- Network startup at boot time
- Stopping and restarting TCP/IP daemons
- System boot without starting rc.tcpip
- The inetd daemon
- The portmap daemon
- Internet addressing
- Host name resolution
- New adapter considerations
- Enabling IP forwarding
- Adding network routes
- Changing IP addresses using SMIT
- The ifconfig command
- Network security
- The uname command
- Basic network problem determination
- Quiz
- Exercises
- Network File System administration
- System performance
- User administration
- Printing
- Sendmail and e-mail
- Online documentation
- The AIXwindows font server
- Related publications
- Special notices
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Back cover
- Index
Product information
- Title: IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Administration
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2001
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 0738423777
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