Course Overview

This course provides advanced AIX system administrator skills with a focus on availability and problem determination. It provides detailed knowledge of the ODM database where AIX maintains so much configuration information. It shows how to monitor for and deal with AIX problems. There is special focus on dealing with Logical Volume Manager problems, including procedures for replacing disks. Several techniques for minimizing the system maintenance window are covered. It also covers how to migrate AIX Workload Partitions to another system with minimal disruption. While the course includes some AIX 6.1 enhancements, most of the material is applicable to prior releases of AIX.

Course Objectives

• Perform system problem determination and reporting procedures including analyzing error logs, creating dumps of the system, and providing needed data to the AIX Support personnel
• Examine and manipulate Object Data Manager databases
• Identify and resolve conflicts between the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) disk structures and the Object Data Manager (ODM)
• Complete a very basic configuration of Network Installation Manager to provide network boot support for either system installation or booting to maintenance mode
• Identify various types of boot and disk failures and perform the matching recovery procedures
• Implement advanced methods such as alternate disk install, multibos, and JFS2 snapshots to use a smaller maintenance window
• Install and configure Workload Partition Manager to support WPAR management and to implement Live Application Mobility (LAM)

Course Content

Day 1

• Unit 1 – Advanced AIX administration overview
• Exercise 1
• Unit 2 – The Object Data Manager
• Exercise 2
• Unit 3 – Error monitoring
• Exercise 3

Day 2

• Unit 4 – Network Installation Manager basics
• Exercise 4
• Unit 5 – System initialization: Part I
• Exercise 5

Day 3

• Unit 6 – System initialization: Part II
• Exercise 6
• Unit 7 – Disk management theory
• Exercise 7
• Unit 8 – Disk management procedures
• Exercise 8

Day 4

• Unit 8 continued
• Exercise 8 continued
• Unit 9 – Install and backup techniques
• Exercise 9
• Unit 10 – Workload partitions
• Exercise 10

Day 5

• Exercise 10 continued
• Unit 11 – The AIX system dump facility
• Exercise 11 – System dump facility

Course Overview

Learn how to perform system administration in a Power Systems environment. Learn about the features of PowerVM Editions and how to configure and manage LPARs running AIX V7.1 using the Hardware Management Console (HMC).

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:

• Describe important concepts that are associated with managing POWER8 processor-based systems, such as logical partitioning, dynamic partitioning, virtual devices, virtual processors, virtual consoles, virtual local area network (VLAN), and shared processors
• Describe the features of the PowerVM editions
• Describe the functions provided by the HMC
• Configure and manage the HMC, including users and permissions, software, start and shutdown, remote access features, network configuration, security features, HMC backup and restore options, and the HMC reload procedure
• Describe the rules that are associated with allocating resources, including dedicated processors, processing units for Micro-Partitioning, memory, logical host Ethernet adapter, and physical I/O for AIX and Linux partitions
• Configure and manage LPARs by using the HMC graphical user interface (GUI) and HMC commands
• Interpret physical and AIX location codes and relate to the key hardware components
• Power on and power off the Power Systems server
• Use the HMC to back up and restore partition data
• Perform dynamic LPAR operations (DLPAR)

Course Content

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Introduction to partitioning
• Exercise 1: Introduction to partitioning
• Unit 2: Hardware system overview
• Exercise 2: System hardware components
• Unit 3: Hardware Management Console

Day 2

• Unit 3: Hardware Management Console (continued)
• Exercise 3: Exploring the HMC V8 interface
• Unit 4: Hardware Management Console maintenance
• Exercise 4: HMC and managed system maintenance
• Unit 5: System power management
• Exercise 5: System power management
• Unit 6: Planning and configuring logical partitions

Day 3

• Unit 6: Planning and configuring logical partitions (continued)
• Exercise 6: Configuring logical partitions
• Unit 7: Partition operations
• Exercise 7: Partition operations
• Unit 8: Dynamic LPAR operations
• Exercise 8: Dynamic LPAR operations

Course Overview

In this course you will learn how to implement Pervasive Encryption in your z/OS installation. The course explores in detail, the various technologies that are involved in z System and z/OS Cryptographic Services, ICSF, RACF and DFSMS access method Services.

In the hands-on exercises, you begin with the setup of your hardware crypto environment (CCA crypto express and CPACF), then you will load and activate your AES master keys, setup ICSF and its Key datasets (CKDS PKDS TKDS), then define your data encryption keys, activate your data set encryption policy, and encrypt your data sets and zFS filesystems.

These exercises reinforce the concepts and technologies being covered in the lectures. This course consists of several inter-dependent modules. The modules, including the lab exercises, depend on the other previous modules content.

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

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Describe the components of Pervasive Encryption on z/OS
• Explain the role of encryption for data protection
• Implement hardware crypto on your z System
• Load and activate AES Master Keys
• Implement and start ICSF
• Understand the differences between secure keys clear keys and protected keys
• Describe how are key values used for encryption and decryption
• Generate, maintain and manage Keys
• Setup access to key labels
• Setup policy to supply key label (RACF SMS JCL)
• Access data in encrypted data sets
• Create encrypted data sets – Supplying key labels
• Convert existing data sets to encryption
• Verify encryption status
• Encrypt Data in Transit
• Encrypt Data at Rest
• Manage data sets, data keys, and key labels

Course Content

Please see the course objectives

Course Overview

Become familiar with the system load balance approach and performance tuning concepts for your HPE NonStop system. Learn how to capture and analyze performance data, then adapt the adjustments to maximize performance and increase system utilization. Topics include Measure, Measure entities, queuing theory, TPM, RPM, ViewSys, Web ViewPoint practical approaches to system tuning, and using performance tools. The course is 60 percent lecture and 40 percent hands-on labs using NonStop servers.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, you should be

able to:

• Apply the basic tuning principle

for NonStop

• Analyze Measure’s key entities and

use Reload Analyzer

• Apply several basic queuing

theory formulas

• Analyze disk cache-hit ratios

and fragmentation

• Calculate a volume’s true write

cache-hit ratio

• Analyze process priorities and process

memory consumption

• Identify processes with long

$RECEIVE queues

• Evaluate TCP process and server class

parameters for best performance

• Use Measure, SQLCI, and MXCI to analyze

NonStop SQL/MP and NonStop

SQL/MX performance

• Identify positive and negative factors in

application performance

Course Content

Performance Analysis and Tuning for HPE NonStop Systems U4195S course data sheet

Course Overview

This course is developed for systems programmers working on an implementation of a Parallel Sysplex. It covers the details of z/OS and z/OS-related products and subsystems exploiting the Parallel Sysplex components. It is focused on the resource sharing side.

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:

• Understand the steps to implement a basic and full Parallel Sysplex
• Implement a basic sysplex
• Implement a multisystem base sysplex
• Implement the connectivity for a Parallel Sysplex
• Implement the features and functions of a Parallel Sysplex
• Implement the coupling facility key exploiters
• Understand the different recovery scenarios

Course Content

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Sysplex: Overview and definitions
• Lab 2: Building two stand-alone systems

Day 2

• Unit 2: Base sysplex definitions and commands
• Unit 3: Hardware Management Console
• Lab 3: Building a two system base sysplex

Day 3

• Unit 4: Base sysplex migration to Parallel Sysplex
• Unit 5: Coupling Facility architecture
• Lab 4: Base to Parallel Sysplex migration dynamically
• Lab 5: Dynamically add a third CF to sysplex

Day 4

• Lab 6: Implementation of CF exploiters

Day 5

• Unit 6: Sysplex operation and recovery
• Lab recovery

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)