IBM eserver certification study guide : AIX 5L installation and system recovery / [Tim Dasgupta, Stephen Sommer].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dasgupta, Tim.

Contributor:

Sommer, Stephen.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic data processing personnel--Certification.

Electronic data processing personnel.

Operating systems (Computers)--Examinations--Study guides.

Operating systems (Computers).

AIX (Computer file)--Examinations--Study guides.

AIX (Computer file).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : IBM Corporation (ibm.com/redbooks), International Technical Support Organization, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Chapter 1. Certification overview

1.1 Certification requirements

1.1.1 Required prerequisite

1.1.2 Recommended prerequisite

1.1.3 Information and registration for the certification exam

1.1.4 Core requirements

1.2 Certification education courses

Chapter 2. System installation and installation options

2.1 Installation methods

2.1.1 Installation startup

2.1.2 New and Complete Overwrite Installation

2.1.3 Migration Installation

2.1.4 Preservation Installation

2.2 Configuration Assistant Taskguide

2.3 Determining maintenance levels

2.4 Alternate Disk Installation

2.4.1 Cloning a running rootvg

2.5 Cloning your system

2.6 Installing additional hardware

2.6.1 Post-installation problems

2.7 Installing online documentation

2.8 Command summary

2.8.1 The blvset command

2.8.2 The cfgmgr command

2.8.3 The alt_disk_install command

2.9 Quiz

2.9.1 Answers

2.10 Exercises

Chapter 3. Additional software installation

3.1 What can be installed

3.1.1 Installation options

3.1.2 Installation methods

3.1.3 Installation reports

3.2 How to install using different scenarios

3.2.1 Bundles

3.2.2 Filesets

3.3 Uninstall software

3.4 Summary

3.5 Command summary

3.5.1 The installp command

3.5.2 The instfix command

3.5.3 The lslpp command

3.6 Quiz

3.6.1 Answers

3.7 Exercises

Chapter 4. System boot

4.1 General overview of the boot process

4.2 BIST - POST

4.2.1 MCA systems

4.2.2 PCI systems

4.3 Boot phase 1

4.4 Boot phase 2

4.4.1 LED 551, 555, or 557

4.4.2 LED 552, 554, and 556

4.4.3 LED 518

4.4.4 The alog command

4.5 Boot phase 3.

4.5.1 The /etc/inittab file

4.5.2 LED 553

4.5.3 LED c31

4.6 pSeries servers

4.6.1 Phase 1: Service processor initialization

4.6.2 Phase 2: Hardware initialization by the service processor

4.6.3 Phase 3: System firmware initialization

4.6.4 Phase 4: AIX boot

4.7 Summary

4.7.1 Boot phases

4.7.2 LED codes

4.8 Quiz

4.8.1 Answers

4.9 Exercises

Chapter 5. Disks and file systems

5.1 Volume groups

5.1.1 Creating a volume group

5.1.2 Migrating data to another disk in the same volume group

5.1.3 Importing a volume group from another system

5.1.4 Replacing a disk with another

5.1.5 Reducing a volume group

5.1.6 Reorganizing a volume group

5.2 Logical volumes

5.2.1 Creating a logical volume and setting the attributes

5.2.2 Different LVs associated with a JFS

5.2.3 Moving a logical volume from one physical volume to another

5.2.4 Mirroring logical volumes

5.3 Journaled file systems

5.3.1 Metadata

5.3.2 Adding a file system

5.3.3 Mounting and unmounting a file system

5.3.4 Reducing the size of a file system

5.3.5 Removing a file system

5.3.6 Creating a new JFS log

5.4 Managing a paging space

5.4.1 How to create a new paging space

5.4.2 How to expand an existing paging space

5.4.3 How to remove an existing paging space

5.4.4 How to shrink an existing paging space size

5.5 Working with physical volumes

5.5.1 Removing a physical disk drive from a system

5.5.2 Recovering an incorrectly removed disk

5.5.3 General tips on boot problems

5.6 Command summary

5.6.1 The cfgmgr command

5.6.2 The bosboot command

5.6.3 The bootlist command

5.6.4 The chps command

5.6.5 The cplv command

5.6.6 The fsck command

5.6.7 The fuser command

5.6.8 The migratepv command

5.6.9 The mkboot command

5.6.10 The mklv command.

5.6.11 The mkps command

5.6.12 The replacepv command

5.6.13 The restvg command

5.6.14 The sysdumpdev command

5.7 Quiz

5.7.1 Answers

5.8 Exercises

Chapter 6. System backup and recovery

6.1 Backup

6.1.1 Backup of the rootvg volume group

6.1.2 The data layout of a mksysb tape

6.1.3 Back up non-rootvg volume group

6.1.4 Back up file systems

6.2 Recovery

6.2.1 Recovery of rootvg

6.2.2 Restore a non-rootvg volume group

6.2.3 Restore a file system

6.2.4 Extracting data from mksysb tape

6.2.5 A customized mksysb restore

6.3 Other UNIX backup commands

6.4 Sysback

6.4.1 Sysback installation

6.4.2 Virtual devices

6.4.3 Other features

6.4.4 Optional features

6.5 Tivoli Storage Manager

6.6 Troubleshooting

6.6.1 Remote backup

6.6.2 Sparse files

6.6.3 Block size determination

6.6.4 Tape block size determination scenario

6.7 Common backup and restore errors

6.8 Command summary

6.8.1 The mksysb command

6.8.2 The savevg command

6.8.3 The restvg command

6.8.4 The backup command

6.8.5 The restore command

6.8.6 The tar command

6.9 Quiz

6.9.1 Answers

6.10 Exercises

Chapter 7. Network installation management

7.1 Debugging NIM boot images

7.1.1 Establishing network communication

7.1.2 Obtaining the boot image from the server

7.1.3 Running the boot image on the client

7.2 Error 611: Network error

7.3 The nim command

7.4 The showmount command

7.5 Producing debug output for NIM BOS installations

7.5.1 Producing debug output from a network boot image

7.5.2 Producing debug output from the BOS install program

7.6 Common NIM errors

7.7 Quiz

7.7.1 Answers

7.8 Exercises

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks.

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Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"SG24-6183-01."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index.

OCLC:

560375771