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IBM Certification Study Guide - Pseries AIX System Support IBM Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Support Developed specifically for the purpose of preparing for AIX certification Makes an excellent companion to classroom education For AIX professionals Christian Pruett Kristian Strickland Scott Vetter ibm.com/redbooks International Technical Support Organization IBM ^ Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Support December 2001 SG24-6199-00 Take Note! Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the general information in “Special notices” on page 427. First Edition (December 2001) This edition applies to AIX 5L for POWER Version 5.1, program number 5765-E61 and subsequent releases running on an RS/6000 or pSeries server and is based on information available in October 2001. Comments may be addressed to: IBM Corporation, International Technical Support Organization Dept. JN9B Building 003 Internal Zip 2834 11400 Burnet Road Austin, Texas 78758-3493 When you send information to IBM, you grant IBM a non-exclusive right to use or distribute the information in any way it believes appropriate without incurring any obligation to you. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2001. All rights reserved. Note to U.S Government Users – Documentation related to restricted rights – Use, duplication or disclosure is subject to restrictions set forth in GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Figures . 11 Tables . 15 Preface . 17 The team that wrote this redbook. 19 Special notice . 19 IBM trademarks . 20 Comments welcome. 20 Chapter 1. Certification overview . 1 1.1 pSeries AIX System Support (Test 199) . 2 1.1.1 Recommended prerequisites . 2 1.1.2 Registration for the certification exam. 2 1.1.3 Certification exam objectives . 2 1.1.4 Additional topics . 5 1.2 Certification education courses . 6 1.3 Education on CD-ROM: IBM AIX Essentials . 10 Chapter 2. System installation and maintenance. 11 2.1 System installation . 12 2.1.1 New and complete overwrite installation. 12 2.1.2 Migration installation . 12 2.1.3 Preservation installation . 13 2.1.4 Alternate disk installation . 13 2.1.5 64-bit kernel installation . 14 2.2 The lppchk command: verifying installed software . 15 2.3 The installp command . 17 2.3.1 The smit.log file . 19 2.4 Determining maintenance levels. 20 2.5 Modification update using update_all from SMIT . 21 2.5.1 Downloading maintenance levels using FixDist . 21 2.5.2 Invoking the smit update_all fast path. 23 2.6 Finding a fileset that contains a given command . 23 2.7 Quiz . 24 2.7.1 Answers . 26 2.8 Exercises . 27 Chapter 3. System initialization and boot . 29 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2001 3 3.1 System initialization . 30 3.2 The /etc/inittab file . 30 3.2.1 The telinit command . 35 3.3 Initialization support . 35 3.3.1 Using the bootlist command . 35 3.3.2 Locating boot logical volumes . 37 3.3.3 Accessing a system that will not boot . 37 3.3.4 Common boot time LED codes . 41 3.4 Quiz . 44 3.4.1 Answers . 46 3.5 Exercises . 46 Chapter 4. Hardware installation and configuration management . 47 4.1 Finding out about your system . 48 4.1.1 Using the lscfg command . 50 4.1.2 Using the lsdev command. 50 4.1.3 Using the lsattr command . 51 4.1.4 Examples . 53 4.2 Adapter and device configuration . 54 4.3 Displaying installed devices . 54 4.4 Configuring new devices . 56 4.4.1 PCI device configuration . 57 4.4.2 ISA device configuration . 58 4.4.3 128-port asynchronous adapter considerations . 63 4.5 Adding a TTY device . 66 4.6 Adding a tape drive . 67 4.7 Quiz . 69 4.7.1 Answers . 70 4.8 Exercises . 70 Chapter 5. Object Data Manager . 71 5.1 ODM commands . 73 5.2 Example of an object class for an ODM database . 73 5.3 Quiz . 74 5.3.1 Answers . 75 5.4 Exercises . 75 Chapter 6. Storage management, LVM, and file systems . 77 6.1 Logical volume storage concepts . 78 6.1.1 Limitations of logical volume storage . 79 6.2 Managing physical volumes . 79 6.2.1 Configuring a physical volume . 79 6.2.2 Making an available disk a physical volume . 81 6.2.3 Modifying physical volume characteristics . 81 4 IBM ^ Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Support 6.2.4 Removing physical volumes . 82 6.2.5 Listing information about physical volumes. 82 6.2.6 Migrating the contents of a physical volume . 87 6.3 Managing volume groups . 92 6.3.1 Adding a volume group . 92 6.3.2 Modifying volume group characteristics . 94 6.3.3 Importing and exporting a volume group. 96 6.3.4 Varying on and varying off a volume group. 98 6.3.5 Monitoring volume groups. 100 6.3.6 Reorganizing a volume group . 102 6.3.7 Synchronizing a volume group . 103 6.3.8 Moving a logical volume within a volume group . 104 6.3.9 Extending a volume group to a defined physical volume . 116 6.4 Managing logical volumes . 121 6.4.1 Adding a logical volume . ..
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