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| Acknowledgments | |
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| System Administration Tasks and Tools | |
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| Introduction | |
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| AIX and UNIX | |
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| New Features of AIX with Version 5L | |
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| System Administration Activities | |
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| Checklist | |
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| DocSearch and the Online Manual Pages: Getting Help from the System | |
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| AIX Help | |
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| DocSearch Overview | |
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| DocSearch Installation | |
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| Using DocSearch | |
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| Man Pages | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Systems and System Architecture | |
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| POWER Processors and Systems | |
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| The History of the POWER Processor | |
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| Code Name Regatta: the p690 | |
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| pSeries Machines | |
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| Compatibility | |
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| Checklist | |
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| AIX 5L Kernel | |
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| Kernel Architecture | |
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| More About the Kernel | |
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| Checklist | |
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| System Installation and Management | |
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| System Management Tools | |
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| SMIT | |
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| Using SMIT | |
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| Web-Based System Manager | |
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| Distributed Systems Management | |
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| Checklist | |
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| AIX Installation and Maintenance | |
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| Installation and Maintenance Planning | |
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| Installing AIX | |
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| Installing Licensed Program Products (LPP) | |
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| Installing Non-LPP Products | |
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| Removing Installed Software | |
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| Applying Maintenance Level (ML) Patches | |
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| Post Installation and Maintenance Tasks | |
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| Distributed System Installation | |
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| Checklist | |
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| AIX System Boot and Shutdown | |
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| Booting the System | |
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| Creating Bootable Media | |
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| Boot Sequence of Events | |
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| The AIX Boot Process | |
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| Fast Boot on MP Machines with mpcfg Command Option | |
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| Stopping the System | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Itanium-Based System Boot | |
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| Checklist | |
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| System Configuration and Customization | |
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| AIX Runtime Configuration | |
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| System Environments | |
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| PTY | |
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| Checklist | |
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| AIX Device Configuration Manager (cfgmgr) and the Object Data Manager (ODM) | |
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| ODM Overview | |
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| ODM Components | |
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| Device Configuration | |
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| Predefined and Customized Devices | |
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| Device States | |
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| Boot Devices | |
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| Small Computer System Interface | |
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| Using smitty cfgmgr to AutoConfigure Your System | |
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| Updating the Product Topology Diskette | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Tape Systems | |
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| Tape Tools | |
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| Linear Open Tape (LTO) Ultrium Tape Drives | |
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| IBM 3494 Enterprise Tape Library | |
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| Linux Tape Support | |
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| Public Domain Tape Tools | |
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| Checklist | |
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| The AIX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) | |
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| Disk Evolution | |
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| Disks Are Doubling Every Six Months | |
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| Disk Hardware | |
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| Disk Installation | |
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| Introducing the LVM | |
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| Configuring Volume Groups | |
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| Configuring Logical Volumes | |
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| Filesystems (JFS and JFS2) | |
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| Paging Space | |
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| Volume Maintenance | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Printers and the Print Subsystem | |
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| Data Flow of a Print Job | |
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| Configuring AIX Printers | |
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| lpd Daemon | |
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| Testing and Modifying Printer Configuration | |
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| Managing AIX Printers | |
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| Highly Available Print Queues | |
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| ASCII Terminal Printers | |
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| X Station Printers | |
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| Configuring and Using the System V Printer Subsystem | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Network Configuration and Customization | |
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| TCP/IP | |
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| TCP/IP Network Model | |
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| Network Devices and Interfaces | |
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| Addressing | |
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| Network Routing | |
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| Domain Name System | |
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| TCP/IP Subsystems | |
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| DHCP | |
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| SLIP and PPP | |
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| Planning | |
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| TCP/IP Configuration | |
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| Network Security | |
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| TCP/IP Troubleshooting | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Networked Filesystems | |
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| Networked Filesystems: NFS, NIS, and NIS+ | |
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| Network File System | |
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| NFS Server | |
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| NFS Clients | |
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| Network Information Services: NIS and NIS+ | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Highly Available Servers | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Distributed File System | |
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| DFS Components | |
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| Installation and Configuration | |
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| Operation and Administration | |
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| Starting DFS | |
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| Access Control Lists | |
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| Fileset Replication | |
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| DFS Backup | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Linux Affinity | |
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| Linux Affinity with AIX | |
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| Running Linux Applications on AIX 5L | |
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| Strong Linux Affinity with AIX | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Distributed Services | |
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| Mail and Sendmail | |
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| Sendmail Components | |
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| Starting and Stopping Sendmail | |
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| Mail Logs | |
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| Configuration Examples | |
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| Delivery Agents and Protocols | |
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| Mail Clients | |
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| Debugging | |
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| Managing Mail Queues | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Apache Web Service | |
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| Creating Web Content | |
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| Web Browsers and Helper Applications | |
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| Checklist | |
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| X11 Administration | |
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| Overview | |
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| Components | |
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| Management | |
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| Start and Stop Display Managers | |
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| The Desktop Environment | |
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| Desktop Components | |
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| Desktop Summary | |
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| IBM X Station Administration | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Managing Users and Resources | |
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| Managing the User Environment | |
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| Physical Resources | |
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| UID Space and Groups | |
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| Resource Limits | |
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| User Account Access Rights | |
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| User Account Environment | |
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| Managing User Accounts | |
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| Password Files | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Process Management | |
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| Process Attributes | |
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| Parent Child Inheritance | |
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| Controlling Processes | |
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| The /proc Filesystem | |
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| Scheduled Processes (cron) | |
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| System Resource Controller | |
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| Checklist | |
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| System Accounting | |
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| Data Collection | |
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| Accounting Configuration | |
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| Accounting Commands | |
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| Periodic Housecleaning | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Security | |
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| Auditing and Security | |
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| Passwords | |
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| Alternative Authentication Methods | |
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| Controlling Superuser Access | |
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| Securing Network Access | |
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| Securing File Access | |
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| Trusted Computing Base | |
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| The Auditing Subsystem | |
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| Additional Security Tools | |
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| Sources of Information | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) | |
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| DCE RPC | |
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| AIX and DCE | |
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| DCE Planning | |
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| DCE Installation and Configuration | |
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| DCE Implementation Considerations | |
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| Driving DCE | |
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| Checklist | |
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| System Recovery and Tuning | |
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| Backup and Copy Utilities | |
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| Backup Strategies | |
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| Backing Up a Filesystem | |
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| Creating a Bootable Operating System Image: mksysb | |
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| Use savevg for Non-Root Volume Groups | |
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| Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) | |
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| IBM's SysBack Utility | |
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| Restoring Files and Filesystems | |
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| Other Backup Utilities | |
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| Network Backups | |
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| Verifying the Backup Is Successful | |
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| Making a Copy of a Tape | |
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| What's on That Tape? | |
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| Checklist | |
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| System Monitoring and Tuning | |
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| Know Your Workload | |
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| AIX Operating System Characteristics | |
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| AIX Tuning Tools | |
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| AIX Monitoring Tools | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Problem Analysis and Recovery | |
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| Backups and Bootable Media | |
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| LED Status Information | |
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| Checking the Service Processor Error Log | |
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| What's in the System Error Report? | |
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| System Memory Dumps | |
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| System Logs | |
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| AIX Kernel Structure | |
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| crash Command Is Replaced by kdb in AIX 5L | |
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| Hardware Diagnostics Using diag | |
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| Calling for Help | |
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| Operating System Fixes | |
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| Checklist | |
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| High Availability | |
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| HACMP and Clustering | |
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| Overview | |
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| Planning a Cluster | |
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| How HACMP Works | |
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| Creating a Cluster: Hardware Setup | |
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| Tuning AIX for HACMP | |
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| Creating a Cluster: Defining and Configuring Resources | |
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| Synchronizing the Cluster | |
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| Traditional IP Address Takeover and IPAT via IP Aliasing | |
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| Choosing a Resource Group Policy | |
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| HACMP Cluster Administration | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Additional Features in HACMP | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage | |
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| SAN, NAS, and iSCSI Consolidated Storage | |
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| Storage Consolidation | |
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| Network Attached Storage (NAS) | |
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| Storage Area Network (SAN) | |
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| Zoning | |
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| Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) a.k.a. the Shark | |
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| Checklist | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |