AIX 5L Administration

by Randal K. Michael

Overview

Configure, customize, and administer AIX version 5L effectively using this expert resource. Use system management tools, work with network and distributed file systems, manage the user environment, tune and monitor the system, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072228410
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	12/06/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	704
File size:	23 MB
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About the Author

Randal K. Michael has worked in the technology sector for 23 years and has been a UNIX Systems Administrator for the last ten. Randy has worked on many different flavors of UNIX during his career but his main focus has been with AIX and Linux. He has worked as a systems administrator for companies such as: Chrysler Motors, IBM, BellSouth, Egleston Children’s Hospital, Equifax, and Glenayre Electronics. He currently works for Coca-Cola Enterprises in Atlanta, as a Senior Systems Administrator for the UNIX and SAP Infrastructure Team.

Table of Contents

Part I: System Administration Tasks and Tools 1: Introduction 2: DocSearch and the Online Manual Pages: Getting Help from the System Part II: Systems and System Architecture 3: POWER Processors and Systems 4: AIX 5L Kernel Part III: System Installation and Management 5: System Management Tools 6: AIX Installation and Maintenance 7: AIX System Boot and Shutdown Part IV: System Configuration and Customization 8: AIX Runtime Configuration 9: AIX Device Configuration Manager (cfgmgr) and the Object Data Manager (ODM) 10: Tape Systems 11: The AIX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) 12: Printers and the Print Subsystem Part V: Network Configuration and Customization 13: TCP/IP Part VI: Networked Filesystems 14: Networked Filesystems: NFS, NIS, and NIS+ 15: Distributed File System Part VII: Linux Affinity 16: Linux Affinity with AIX Part VIII: Distributed Services 17: Mail and Sendmail 18: Apache Web Service 19: X11 Administration Part IX: Managing Users and Resources 20: Managing the User Environment 21: Process Management 22: System Accounting Part X: Security 23: Auditing and Security 24: Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Part XI: System Recovery and Tuning 25: Backup and Copy Utilities 26: System Monitoring and Tuning 27: Problem Analysis and Recovery Part XII: High Availability 28: HACMP and Clustering Part XIII: Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage 29: SAN, NAS, and iSCSI Consolidated Storage Appendix

Editorial Reviews

Explains how to administer a network running the AIX operating system on IBM processors. Where appropriate, all three AIX system management interface tool (SMIT), web-based system manager, and command line options are presented. The guide begins with the procedures for system installation and network configuration. Later chapters address file systems, Linux affinity, e-mail, web servers, user account management, security, the backup utilities, clustering techniques, and the enterprise storage server. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR