Course Overview

The Prisma Access SSE: Configuration and Deployment course introduces you to the operational deployment of Prisma Access Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and how it helps organizations embrace the needs of the modern workforce by providing network connectivity and network security services from the cloud. This course will enable you to deploy, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Prisma Access using Strata Cloud Manager. The course is intended for professionals in cybersecurity and public-cloud security, as well as general network-security professionals who want to learn how to secure remote networks and mobile users.

Course Objectives

Successful completion of this four-day, instructor-led course will help enhance your understanding of how to better protect your applications, remote networks, and mobile users using a SASE implementation.

In a lab environment, you will get hands-on experience configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Prisma Access via Strata Cloud Manager.

Course Content

1. Prisma SASE
2. Prisma Access Architecture
3. Strata Cloud Manager
4. Licensing and Activation
5. Service Connections
6. Remote Networks
7. Mobile Users
8. Prisma Access Explicit Proxy
9. ZTNA Connector
10. Prisma Access Browser
11. Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM)

Course Overview

Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration Course Overview

This highly practical instructor led Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the advanced concepts and use of Linux Administration. With a strong emphasis on practical hands on training using the command line,this course will teach advanced System Administration techniques to perform administration of Oracle Linux systems.

Although this Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration course is based on the Oracle Linux distribution,the delegate should be able to apply the concepts covered on this course to other Linux based distributions including,but not limited to Red Hat (RHEL),Fedora,CentOS and Amazon Linux amongst others.

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Oracle Linux curriculum for certification.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

On completion of this Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration course,the delegate will have gained practical experience of the advanced skills required to configure,run and maintain Oracle Linux systems and other Red Hat-based Linux distributions within an enterprise environment.

Course Content

Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: ADVANCED NETWORKING

• Host discovery
• Ethernet bonding
• Channel bonding
• Virtual LANs
• Exercise

Session 2: LINUX AUDITING

• Auditing overview
• Security related log files
• The last and lastb commands
• Understanding Audit records
• Generating Audit queries
• Configuring Auditing and defining rules
• Exercise

Session 3: SYSTEMD UNITS

• Systemd unit overview
• Controlling units
• Creating Service,Timer and Mount units
• Exercise

Session 4: CONFIGURING SUDO

• Sudo overview
• Basic examples
• Command line options
• Sudo aliases,tags and groups
• Sudo password options
• Sudo logging and replay
• Exercise

Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 5: MANAGING AND CONFIGURING SELINUX

• SELinux overview
• Viewing and analysing SELinux denials
• Executing SELinux commands
• Configuring temporary and permanent policy changes
• Managing SELinux contexts,ports and Booleans
• Configuring SELinux users
• Relabelling files on boot
• Creating policy modules
• Exercise

Session 6: FILE SHARING WITH NFS AND SAMBA

• NFS overview
• Configuring an NFS server and client
• Configuring AutoFS – The Automounter
• Samba overview
• Configuring a Samba server and client
• Configuring SELinux for Samba
• Exercise

Session 7: CONFIGURING AN FTP SERVER

• FTP services overview
• Configuring Pure-FTPD and ProFTPD
• Configuring a VSFTPD server
• Configuring SELinux for FTP
• Creating a Socket unit
• Exercise

Session 8: RAID DEVICES

• RAID overview
• Creating a RAID device
• Viewing RAID arrays
• Hot swapping failed drives
• Exercise

Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 9: LOGICAL VOLUMES

• LVM overview
• Creating Physical Volumes,Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
• Creating a striped Logical Volume
• Extending a Volume Group
• Resizing filesystems
• Removing Logical Volumes,Volume Groups and Physical Volumes
• Exercise

Session 10: CONFIGURING FIREWALLD

• Firewalld overview
• Basic firewall-cmd commands
• Managing firewalld services,ports and zones
• Creating firewalld zones and services
• Geolocation blocking with IP Sets
• Configuring Rich Rules
• Installing and configuring fail2ban
• Viewing the fail2ban jail and unbanning IP addresses
• Exercise

Session 11: INTRUSION DETECTION

• Intrusion detection overview
• Installing and configuring AIDE
• Detecting filesystem changes
• Creating a chroot jail
• Exercise

Session 12: PLUGGABLE AUTHENTICATION MODULES

• PAM overview
• PAM configuration files
• Restricting access to SSH
• Enforcing password complexity
• Controlling access by time
• Controlling user limits
• Exercise

Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 13: SYSTEM MONITORING AND PERFORMANCE

• Performance monitoring overview
• Monitoring processes and collecting system information
• Measuring virtual memory
• Measuring IO performance
• Exercise

Session 14: KUBERNETES

• Kubernetes overview
• Installing and configuring Kubernetes
• Creating a Kubernetes cluster
• Pod overview
• Creating a basic Pod
• Pod namespaces and lifecycles

APPENDIX A: DISK ENCRYPTION

• Creating LUKS partitions
• Creating the filesystem
• Adding mappings

APPENDIX B: AUDIT RECORDS

• The Audit record fields

APPENDIX C: THE UDEV DEVICE MANAGER

• The Udev subsystem
• Configuring Udev and creating rules

APPENDIX D: NFTABLES

• NFTables Overview
• Converting IPTables rules to NFTables
• Using NFTables
• Displaying NFTables rule sets
• Creating an NFTables chain

Course Overview

This highly practical instructor led Oracle Linux 9 Administration training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the advanced concepts and use of Linux Administration. With a strong emphasis on practical hands on training using the command line,this course will teach advanced System Administration techniques to perform administration of Oracle Linux systems.

Although this Oracle Linux 9 Administration course is based on the Oracle Linux distribution,the delegate should be able to apply the concepts covered on this course to other Linux based distributions including,but not limited to Red Hat (RHEL),Fedora,CentOS and Amazon Linux amongst others.

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Oracle Linux curriculum for certification.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

On completion of this Oracle Linux 9 Administration course,the delegate will have gained practical experience of the skills required to configure,run and maintain Oracle Linux systems and other Red Hat-based Linux distributions within an enterprise environment.

Course Content

Oracle Linux 9 Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: BOOT CONFIGURATION AND DEVICES

• GRUB2 configuration
• System information
• Viewing Linux devices
• The /etc/sysconfig directory
• The /proc and /sys filesystems
• Systemd Control Groups
• Exercise

Session 2: MANAGING USERS AND GROUPS

• Creating,modifying and deleting user accounts
• Creating and modifying Linux groups
• Managing Linux passwords and hashing methods
• Managing users with Cockpit
• Configuring and retaining command history
• Exercise

Session 3: MANAGING FILESYSTEMS

• Viewing block devices
• Partitioning devices with gdisk and parted
• Filesystem comparison
• Creating XFS and EXT4 filesystems
• Mounting filesystems temporarily and permanently
• Configuring filesystem labels and UUIDs
• Exercise

Oracle Linux 9 Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 4: FURTHER FILESYSTEM OPERATIONS

• EXT and XFS filesystem maintenance
• Creating and extending Btrfs filesystems
• Creating and managing swap files and partitions
• Exercise

Session 5: ENHANCED FILE SYSTEM ATTRIBUTES

• Extended permissions
• Extended file attributes
• Creating and modifying Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• SELinux overview
• Viewing SELinux denials
• Exercise

Session 6: LOGICAL VOLUMES

• NFS overview
• Configuring an NFS server and client
• Configuring AutoFS – The Automounter
• Samba overview
• Configuring a Samba server and client
• Configuring SELinux for Samba
• Exercise

Oracle Linux 9 Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 7: SOFTWARE PACKAGE MANAGEMENT

• Querying installed and uninstalled packages with RPM
• Verifying packages and finding documentation
• The DNF package manager
• Further DNF options and history
• Further DNF options and history
• Exercise

Session 8: LINUX NETWORKING

• Configuring the system hostname
• Configuring IPv4 dynamic and static networking
• Configuring IPv6 addresses
• Capturing and analysing network packets
• Creating Wireshark filters
• Exercise

Session 9: NETWORK SERVICES

• Configuring a secure NTP and PTP client
• NTP vs PTP
• Configuring an SSH server and client
• Configuring public/private key authentication
• X11 forwarding
• Viewing firewalld services
• Configuring firewalld services and ports
• Exercise

Session 10: LINUX LOGGING

• Viewing Linux log files
• Configuring local and remote logging
• Managing log rotation
• Viewing and configuring the system journal
• Exercise

Oracle Linux 9 Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 11: BUILDING A VIRTUAL MACHINE

• Virtualisation concepts
• Checking for supported hardware
• Installing a virtual system
• Managing virtual systems via the command line or GUI
• Exercise

Session 12: AUTOMATING TASKS

• Using at to manage one-off tasks and scripts
• Managing tasks with cron
• Managing system crontab files
• Restricting access to at and cron
• Configuring tasks with anacron
• Exercise

Session 13: MANAGING PROCESSES AND UNITS

• Time-sharing
• Anatomy of a process
• Monitoring processes via the command line and top
• Killing processes
• Creating systemd service,timer and mount units
• Exercise

Session 14: LOCALISATION

• Localisation overview
• Viewing locale variables
• Setting the locale and keymap
• Configuring the system and user time zones
• Converting character sets and encoding
• Exercise

Oracle Linux 9 Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 5

Session 15: BACKUP AND RESTORE

• Creating and extracting archived files
• Local and remote copying tools
• Compression utilities
• Viewing compressed files
• Cloning disks and partitions
• Exercise

Session 16: LINUX CONTAINERS

• Containers overview
• Containers vs Virtualization
• Docker overview
• Creating and managing Podman containers
• Attaching storage volumes
• Committing changes and exporting container images
• Exercise

Session 17: INSTALLING LINUX

• Downloading Oracle Linux
• The installation process
• Software selection and disk partitioning
• Configuring networking and users
• Logging in

Course Overview

Oracle Database 12cR2 Essential Administration Course Overview

The Oracle Database 12cR2 Essential Administration course is designed for Database Administrators of small sized databases who need to carry out basic system administration tasks on Oracle Database 12cR2 database.

The Oracle Database 12cR2 Essential Administration course is also suitable for support staff and personnel who are required to carry out occasional administration or troubleshooting tasks. The Oracle Database 12cR2 Essential Administration course is not aimed at delegates who are full time Database Administrators. The focus is on using Enterprise Manager Express and SQL Developer to teach delegates how to manage the database. The usage of SQL*Plus is also covered.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Full time Database Administrators should attend the Oracle Database 12cR2 Administration course.

Course Objectives

The Oracle Database 12cR2 Essential Administration course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills needed to successfully manage an Oracle database.

Course Content

Oracle Database 12cR2 Essential Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION

• Oracle product overview
• Oracle Support services
• Relational database concepts
• Oracle architecture
• Oracle Multitenant architecture
• Overview of the Oracle Cloud
• Database administration tasks
• Database administration responsibilities

Session 2: INSTALL THE ORACLE DATABASE SOFTWARE WITH THE OIU

• Installation planning
• Understand system requirements and operating system pre-requisites
• Oracle flexible architecture
• Environment variables
• Use Oracle Universal Installer to install Oracle software (OUI)
• The Oracle Inventory
• De-install Oracle Database softare

Session 3: CREATE A DATABASE WITH THE DATABASE CONFIGURATION ASSISTANT (DBCA)

• Select a storage method
• Select a CDB or non-CDB database
• Select a database type based on workload
• Select a character set for the database
• Create a database using the DBCA

Session 4: ADMINISTER A DATABASE

• Administrative tools available to a DBA
• Use SQL*Plus and SQL Developer to manage a database
• Administer the database using Enterprise Manager Express
• An overview of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control

Session 5: CONFIGURE THE ORACLE NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

• Overview of network configuration
• Oracle Net Listener configuration and management
• Oracle Net Naming methods
• Tools for configuring and managing the Oracle network
• Configure local naming for client connections with Net Manager
• Start and stop the Oracle listener
• Configure the listener with EM
• Use TNSPING to test Oracle Net connectivity
• Connect to the database

Oracle Database 12cR2 Essential Administration Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 6: MANAGE AN ORACLE INSTANCE

• Oracle Instance
• Instance management
• Memory structures
• Background processes
• Database authentication methods
• Initialization parameters
• Password file
• Shut down the database
• Start up the database
• View alert log and trace files

Session 7: DATABASE STORAGE STRUCTURES

• Oracle database structures
• Control files
• Redo log and archive redo log files
• Tablespaces and data files
• Create tablespaces
• Manage tablespaces
• Manage undo and use the Undo Advisor
• Use Enterprise Manager Express and SQL Developer to view the storage structure of the database

Session 8: MANAGE USERS

• Database administration accounts
• User accounts
• Create and administer user accounts
• Lock and unlock user accounts
• Change a user’s password
• Administer privileges and roles

Session 9: MANAGE SCHEMA OBJECTS

• Create schema objects
• Create a new table
• View the attributes and contents of a table
• Understand data integrity
• Define constraints
• Create indexes
• View index attributes
• Create views
• Create synonyms
• Create sequences

Session 10: BACKUP,RECOVER AND RESTORE A DATABASE

• Oracle backup strategy
• Overview of backup,restore and recovery
• Backup and recovery configuration
• Configure ARCHIVELOG mode
• Overview of backup and recovery operations
• Overview of scheduled backups
• Configure backup settings
• Configure recovery settings
• Perform recovery

Session 11: PERFORMANCE MONITORING

• Overview of self-monitoring architecture
• Monitor an Oracle database
• Automatic Workload Repository
• Automatic Database Diagnostics Monitor (ADDM)
• Additional monitoring
• Use the advisors

Course Overview

This class provides the knowledge to use UNIX commands and utilities, and to develop applications in the Open System Services (OSS) environment on HPE NonStop servers. The lectures and labs focus on OSS basics, commands, utilities, and development tools. In addition, students are introduced to OSS application programming interface (API) usage and the OSS sockets interface. In addition to becoming familiar with Open System Services (OSS) architecture, interfaces, and procedures, students gain the skills needed to optimize HPE NonStop systems so users experience smooth functioning IT operations. Students also gain valuable hands-on experience managing an Open System Services (OSS) environment. This course prepares students for advanced learning courses in the HPE NonStop curriculum.

Course Objectives

In addition to receiving an introduction to OSS, students will gain the following knowledge and skills: 

• OSS file system basics 

• OSS architecture, commands, and utilities 

• OSS development environment 

• OSS API usage and sockets basics

Course Content

U4159S (hpe.com)

Course Overview

Open System Services (OSS) is an open computing interface to the HPE NonStop Kernel operating system and is based on POSIX standards. This course is intended for OSS application developers who will be creating or porting applications to the OSS environment on a NonStop server. New OSS users are introduced to OSS basic commands, editors, and utilities in the NonStop Kernel OSS environment. This course is 60 percent lecture and 40 percent hands-on labs using HPE servers.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, you

should be able to:

• Navigate the OSS directory structure

• Display the contents of a file and a

directory

• Create aliases

• Set and change file and directory

permissions

• Change user and group IDs

• Set the sticky bit

• Perform specific vi commands

• Configure a user profile

• Manipulate environment variables and

background jobs

• Stop an OSS process

• Time start an application

Course Content

Open System Services (OSS) Basic Commands and Utilities U5516S course data sheet (hpe.com)

Course Overview

MySQL Performance & Tuning Course Overview

This MySQL Performance & Tuning course is designed for Database Administrators,Application Developers and Technical Consultants who need to monitor and tune the performance of MySQL servers and databases.

The course provides practical experience in monitoring and tuning MySQL servers and databases.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Versions supported 8.

Like most database software,MySQL can benefit from performance tuning. By adjusting certain settings and configurations,the speed and responsiveness of your databases can be improved. This can lead to improved overall performance of your applications and a better user experience. Optimized database performance also can help reduce hosting costs by getting the most out of the hardware that is available within the existing infrastructure.

In this course,we will cover some of the most important aspects of tuning MySQL for high performance.

Course Objectives

To provide the skills necessary to monitor and tune MySQL database performance.

Course Content

MySQL Performance & Tuning Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMANCE TUNING

• Tuning Overview
• Resolving Performance Issues
• Recommended Approach to Tuning
• Items to Evaluate
• Where to look for performance issues
• Develop a monitoring and tuning plan
• Building a New Database for Performance
• Tuning an Existing Database for performance
• Set Suitable performance goals

Session 2: MYSQL PERFORMANCE TUNING TOOLS

• Tuning Overview
• Hardware optimization
• Increase RAM and use faster RAM
• Use more CPU cores
• Use a clustered database
• Optimize the operating system
• Use indexes to improve performance
• Optimize queries
• Optimize tables
• Assign suitable memory allocations
• Set values for system variables that affect performance
• Use benchmarking tool

Session 3: STATEMENT TUNING

• Overview of Statement Tuning
• Identifying and improve Problem Queries
• The Optimizer
• Understand the output from the Explain command
• Monitor queries using the Information Schema Processlist table
• Optimization strategies
• Optimizations for derived tables
• Filesort with small LIMIT optimization
• Limit rows examined
• Query limits and timeouts
• Abort statements that exceed a specific time to execute

Session 4: INDEXES

• An overview of MariaDB indexes
• Types of MySQL indexes
• Make efficient usage of indexes
• Assess the size of an Index
• Resolve queries without accessing some tables referred to in the query
• Force query plans using index hints
• Find rows in a table using named indexes
• Ignore indexes using an index hint
• How indexes impact table joins
• InnoDB Cached Indexes Information

MySQL Performance & Tuning Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 5: SERVER CONFIGURATION AND MONITORING

• Set suitable values for server configuration variables
• Use server status variables to monitor performance
• Use table caching
• Store key distributions for a table with the ANALYZE TABLE command
• Reclaim unused space and defragment data with the OPTIMIZE TABLE command
• Use multi-threading
• Solve connection issues

Session 6: THE INNODB ENGINE

• Transactions
• Crash recovery with the innodb engine
• Effects of innodb locking on performance
• Monitoring InnoDB Locks in MySQL
• MySQL Disable Deadlock Detection
• Monitor the performance of the InnoDB engine
• Set and monitor caches and buffers
• Configuring data files for performance
• Configuring the log files for performance

Session 7: OVERVIEW OF CLUSTERING FOR PERFORMANCE

• The Performance Advantages of Clustering
• Performance Issues and Clustering
• The NDB Cluster
• The Galera Cluster
• The Percona XtraDB Cluster
• MySQL InnoDB Cluster
• The Federated Engine

Session 8: OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE OF DUMPING AND LOADING DATA

• SQL statements versus delimited data
• Parameters affecting dump performance
• Parameters affecting load performance

Session 9: PARTITIONING TABLES FOR PERFORMANCE

• The concept of partitioned tables
• How partitioning can improve performance
• Range partitioning
• Hash partitioning
• Key partitioning
• List partitioning
• Composite partitioning or subpartitioning
• Partition Pruning
• Adding,dropping and coalescing partitions
• Convert a non-partitioned table to a partitioned table

Course Overview

Enhance container management capabilities with automation, governance, and security across clusters.

Multicluster Management with Red Hat OpenshiftPlatform Plus  teaches the skills required to maintain a diverse portfolio of applications, running across a fleet of OpenShift clusters. Applications follow placement rules determined by capacity and criticality; cluster configurations comply with governance and security policies; all automated according to Devops principles.

This course is based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.4.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

• Deploy Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM) in a hub cluster
• Add a managed cluster to RHACM (configure a cluster to be managed by RHACM)
• Define and apply cluster configuration policies
• Detect and correct non-conformance to cluster configuration policies
• Visualize and compare cluster settings between different clusters
• Define and apply application placement policies
• Identify and compare application resources from multiple clusters
• Deploy Red Hat Quay in the hub cluster
• Deploy Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (RHACS) in the hub cluster
• Integrate Red Hat Quay and RHACS with RHACM.

Course Content

Manage a Multicluster Kubernetes Architecture

Describe multicluster architectures and use Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus to solve their challenges.

Inspect Resources from Multiple Clusters Using the RHACM Web Console

Describe and navigate the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM) web console. Configure role-based access control (RBAC) and search for resources across multiple clusters by using the RHACM search engine.

Deploy and Manage Policies for Multiple Clusters with RHACM

Deploy and manage policies in a multicluster environment by using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM) governance.

Install and Customize the RHACM Observability Stack

Gain insight into the fleet of managed clusters by using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM) observability components.

Deploy Applications Across Multiple Clusters with RHACM

Deploy and manage applications in a multicluster environment with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes GitOps.

Install and Configure Red Hat Quay

Install and configure Red Hat Quay on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP).

Integrate Red Hat Quay with Red Hat OpenShift and RHACM

Describe Red Hat Quay use cases in a multicluster environment,  and use Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM) to deploy applications and  control the image sources allowed in the cluster fleet.

Install and Configure RHACS

Install and configure Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (RHACS) and learn how it can help organizations with security in multicluster environments.

Multicluster Operational Security Using RHACS

Manage the operational security of a Kubernetes cluster fleet using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (RHACS), and integrate RHACS with external services.

Course Overview

Learn 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 IBM Power server managed by Hardware Management Console and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

After this course participants should be able to:

• 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
• Create and manage user and group accounts
• Perform and restore system backups
• Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks, and security to implement customized access of files and directories
• Configure TCP/IP networking
• Configure and conduct Live Updates on a running AIX LPAR

Course Content

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: AIX system management tools
• Exercise 1: Using SMIT
• Unit 2: Device Management
• Exercise 2: Device management
• Unit 3: The Logical Volume Manager
• Exercise 3: The Logical Volume Manager

Day 2

• Unit 4: File system management
• Exercise 4: File system management
• Unit 5: Paging space
• Exercise 5: Paging space
• Unit 6: User administration

Day 3

• Exercise 6: User administration
• Unit 7: Scheduling
• Exercise 7: Scheduling
• Unit 8: Backup and recovery
• Exercise 8: Backup and recovery

Day 4

• Unit 9: Startup and shutdown
• Exercise 9: Startup and shutdown
• Unit 10: AIX and software installation
• Exercise 10: AIX and software installation

Day 5

• Unit 11: AIX installation options
• Exercise 11: AIX installation options
• Unit 12: TCP/IP implementation
• Exercise 12: TCP/IP implementation

Course Overview

This course enables students to perform AIX Live Update operations on the AIX operating system. This includes installing interim fixes, service packs and technology levels using the AIX Live Update capability.

Students in this course will learn how to implement AIX Live Update. Students will also be exposed to the different management types for live update and learn skills required to install AIX updates, such as technology levels, service packs and interim fixes, without requiring downtime (a reboot) for the server.

Best practices and testing methods for live update will be discussed, providing students with the knowledge to effectively configure and manage live update in a production environment. Additionally, students will learn skills to troubleshoot and debug live update issues.

Course Objectives

After this course participants should be able to:

• Describe the purpose of AIX Live Update
• Describe AIX live update concepts and pre-requisites
• Understand the different live update management types (HMC or PowerVC)
• Perform HMC-based AIX live update operations
• Use Live Update to install AIX TLs, SPs and ifixes
• Test and apply Live Update best practices and troubleshooting techniques
• Perform PowerVC-based Live Update operations

Course Content

Day 1

• Unit 1: Introduction to AIX Live Update
• Exercise 1: Verification of Prerequisites
• Unit 2: AIX Live Update Management Types
• Exercise 2: Live Update Management Types
• Unit 3: Performing AIX Live Update Operations (HMC based)
• Exercise 3: Perform HMC-based Live Update operations
• Unit 4: Patching AIX without a reboot (installing interim fixes)
• Exercise 4: Install an AIX ifix without a reboot
• Unit 5: Testing Live Update
• Exercise 5: Testing Live Update

Day 2

• Unit 6: Live Update Best practices
• Exercise 6: Implementing Live Update Best Practices
• Unit 7: Troubleshooting Live Update
• Exercise 7: Troubleshooting Live Update Issues
• Unit 8: Performing AIX Live Update Operations (PowerVC based)
• Exercise 8: Perform PowerVC-based Live Update operations