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Introduction AIX

AIX Editions

AIX strenght

AIX Power10

AIX concepts

AIX latest presentations: AIX 7.2 ....

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AIX training

AIX commands

UNIX/Linux base file permissions

AIX Roadmap

Power Systems

Power CPU virtual

Power Servers Firmware Upgrade

Connect a Power server on an HMC

Power Update Access Keys (UAK)

AIX Installation

BOS (base operating system) operations

AIX upgrade without reboot, zero downtime (AIX Live update)

Where download AIX packages, base and updates

Where download RPM packages (Open Source)

Howto install a base OS (AIX or VIOS)

Customize your AIX server

Network Installation Manager (NIM)

NIM server installation

NIM server tuning

NIM operation howto

NIM commands

Install AIX using a Linux server (NIMOL)

NIM HA

Misc operations on rootvg

AIX OS alternate disk operations

AIX OS migration on running sever (alternate disk migration or multibos)

AIX bff and rpm package management

RPM: package

AIX: package

Install YUM / DNF on AIX

Pre and Post upgrade or migration actions

Java for AIX

AIX deployment tools opensource

AIX cleanup a software package in ODM

Troubleshooting NIM LED hangs

AIX boot problems LED 5xx

Check Fix to apply on AIX

Packages no more supported depending on AIX version

Install package on different path, multiple version of a package

PowerVC (Virtual Center for Power Servers)

AIX Service Update Management Assistant (SUMA)

AIX update packages (efix/ifix)

LVM

LVM commands

SCSI unmap, reclaim space on disk, defrag filesystem

Extend VG by increasing disk size

Add a new LUN on a LPAR

Resync VG after diskfailure

Howto cleanup a PV MISSING, resync VG

How to import a VG

Filesystems snapshots

Mirror and unmirror rootvg

Increase disk performance on multiples disks and choose the better read disk

Check path to SAN-disks after install/modif

Create a RAM disk on AIX

Prevent concurrent mount of filesystem

LVM corruption

Networking

How to configure IP aliases on AIX

IPSec Tunneling (VPN)

How to test etherchannel

How to delete multiple default gateway

Firewall IPfilter installation

Firewall with AIX TCP/IP filtering

AIX TCP Traffic Regulation (TCP TR)

Tuning network ethernet 10Gb/s

Host resolution / DNS options

Network performance measure

Disable IPV6

Configure SNMP v3

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) on AIX

Device

Use NVMe disk on AIX

AIX fiber channel SCSI / NVMe

Get hardware info, CPU, socket, nb cores, memory...

List all drivers in use on AIX / child / parent

Change AIX SMT Simultaneous Multithreading

Change AIX parameter before reboot

Increase disk performance

SCSI / SAS Hardware Raid Management (disk array)

MPIO vs SDDPCM multipathing for disk

EMC Powerpath or MPIO

Hitachi DLManager MPIO for disk

Create a dummy device (empty to change device order)

Devices attributes, default values and possible value

List disks UUID (uniq ID) on AIX

Format / clear a disk using OS commands

AIX lquerypv / lqueryvg

AIX enable iocp0 online

AIX diag command

Release disk reservation

AIX security

Password policy on AIX

AIX Security Expert (aixpert)

AIX Security PowerSC centralized (CIS...)

AIX hardening settings

AIX TE (Trust Execution)

AIX and network services

AIX sudo options

VIOS

VIOS Release NOTE

VIOS Command line

VIOS upgrade

Install VIOS with NIM

Howto stop 1 VIOS

VIOS customization

NPIV recommandation

VIOS virtual adapter

VIOS dynamically add a VLAN

VIOS trouble

Disk/adapter tuning

IVM (Integrated Virtualization Manager)

Using Shared Storage Pool on VIOS (SSP)

Cloning a VIOS

VIOS CMDB

Mount ISO image, repository on VIOS

Migrate iSeries from Vscsi to Vfcs

ODM on AIX

Read ODM or smit menu informations

Change ODM / devices default parameters

User: environment/profiles/LDAP

Users and group management

Users environment and profiles

Users with Kerberos authentification

Setup OpenLDAP or IBM Directory Server on AIX client

AIX as client from Active Directory (AD)

Users with Active Directory authentification

LDAP map modification

PAM with Radius

Recover root password

Procedures

AIX restore a mksysb

FTP advanced configuration

Mount ISO image

Create a service in AIX

SSH: PRNG is not SEEDED or PTY allocation request failed on channel

Check TCB state

Limit number of connections: TCP Traffic regulation TR

How to force a dump on a LPAR

Sendmail configuration and test

Debug command (trace, truss)

Mount filesystem NFS v4

Who is using my port

Chroot sftp on AIX

DSH howto

Console debug

Time server or client NTP

Activate auditing on AIX

AIX with SSH on PAM authentification

Howto use SSH

AIX printing

AIX man pages howto

SSL certificates

AIX Virtualization

Install AIX on x86 using QEMU

Kubernetes on AIX

WPAR introduction

WPAR deployement

WPAR upgrade / migration

Howto identify WPAR

Control ressources between WPARs

WPAR start/stop

WPAR add filesystem

WPAR backup/restore

WPAR and PowerHA (import WPAR)

WPAR problems

Performances / Monitoring

AIX tuning performance

AIX base perf commands (ps, svmon,...)

IBM Systen Director alerting

AIX/VIOS perfomance Tools

IBM tools for healthcheck on LPAR and VIOS

Ganglia monitoring installation

LPAR2RRD cross LPAR monitoring

Cacti

Munin

Graphite references

Graphite installation on AIX

NMON and graphical view

Workload Manager to limit processes

Scripts to collect perf

Install GLPI agent with perl modules

Tricks

Tips and tricks

AIX CPU/threads tuning

Shell script

Bash prompt

NFS automount

What is started into /etc/inittab

Create a demon (daemon) on AIX

AIX C and C++ compiler

Log Management and centralize

Log rotation (logrotate)

AIX alternate syslog: RSYSLOG

Syslog configuration and errpt redirection

Crontab, log management

Audit all user commands (.sh_history)

Audit AIX

AIX scheduling and background jobs

AIX crontab / scheduling

AIX schedule immediate

Problem determination

AIX diagnostic tools

AIX read trace file

Process and libraries dependancies

JFS2 sync time exceeded 600 seconds

Bad package version

Large send problem on AIX and Linux

Library error using RPMs

Core files

Error with ipldevice

Unable to print into a WPAR

Wrong copie of a filesystem

Problem with RSCT

sendmail logging "gethostbyaddr(IPv6:::1) failed: 1"

Log your IP connections

Unable to boot LED code 55x

Could not load ssh_host_ecdsa_key

Unable to find why / (slash) filesystem is full

Problem with shared memory

Remove a software (lpp) on a WPAR

FTP logging (debug)

Problem RPM packages/database

AIX error with savebase or bosboot or mkszfile

AIX java lost certificate after upgrade

application on AIX is closing the idle connection

AIX locale (environment)

PowerHA (HACMP)

Validation of PowerHA environments

Move a resource between nodes

Reactivate suspended mirroring on enhanced concurrent VG

Using cross site mirroring (mirror pools)

Clstat don't start

NFS cross-mounting

Application dependency

PowerHA heartbeat

PowerHA version 7

GPFS / Spectrum Scale

GPFS Introduction, concept, definition

GPFS installation

GPFS Healthcheck

GPFS Operations

GPFS Backup

GPFS Tuning

HMC / SDMC

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/blogs/hariganesh-muralidharan1/2022/07/27/whats-new-in-hmc-10110200

HMC manual upgrade

HMC commands

HMC debug

SDMC first setup

HMC into virtual machine

How to Convert a POWER Blade from IVM Managed to HMC Managed

HMC using Rest API / SNMP

HMC connection to AD / LDAP

PowerVC installation

Apache / MySQL / PHP5

Install Apache with php5

MySQL installation

VI Editor

VI Editor

VI as shell Editor, set -o vi

Scripts

Tips and Tricks

AIX scripts

AIX scripts order by category

Documentation / reference

http://aix4admins.blogspot.com

http://www.aixhealthcheck.com/

http://sites.google.com/site/torontoaix/home/