| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| System Administration Tasks and Tools | |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| AIX and UNIX | p. 4 |
| New Features of AIX with Version 5L | p. 5 |
| System Administration Activities | p. 11 |
| Checklist | p. 14 |
| DocSearch and the Online Manual Pages: Getting Help from the System | p. 15 |
| AIX Help | p. 16 |
| DocSearch Overview | p. 16 |
| DocSearch Installation | p. 16 |
| Using DocSearch | p. 24 |
| Man Pages | p. 31 |
| Checklist | p. 35 |
| Systems and System Architecture | |
| POWER Processors and Systems | p. 39 |
| The History of the POWER Processor | p. 41 |
| Code Name Regatta: the p690 | p. 46 |
| pSeries Machines | p. 48 |
| Compatibility | p. 49 |
| Checklist | p. 50 |
| AIX 5L Kernel | p. 51 |
| Kernel Architecture | p. 52 |
| More About the Kernel | p. 56 |
| Checklist | p. 56 |
| System Installation and Management | |
| System Management Tools | p. 61 |
| SMIT | p. 62 |
| Using SMIT | p. 63 |
| Web-Based System Manager | p. 71 |
| Distributed Systems Management | p. 72 |
| Checklist | p. 75 |
| AIX Installation and Maintenance | p. 77 |
| Installation and Maintenance Planning | p. 78 |
| Installing AIX | p. 89 |
| Installing Licensed Program Products (LPP) | p. 100 |
| Installing Non-LPP Products | p. 103 |
| Removing Installed Software | p. 103 |
| Applying Maintenance Level (ML) Patches | p. 104 |
| Post Installation and Maintenance Tasks | p. 107 |
| Distributed System Installation | p. 109 |
| Checklist | p. 114 |
| AIX System Boot and Shutdown | p. 115 |
| Booting the System | p. 116 |
| Creating Bootable Media | p. 117 |
| Boot Sequence of Events | p. 120 |
| The AIX Boot Process | p. 121 |
| Fast Boot on MP Machines with mpcfg Command Option | p. 125 |
| Stopping the System | p. 126 |
| Troubleshooting | p. 126 |
| Itanium-Based System Boot | p. 127 |
| Checklist | p. 128 |
| System Configuration and Customization | |
| AIX Runtime Configuration | p. 133 |
| System Environments | p. 134 |
| PTY | p. 145 |
| Checklist | p. 147 |
| AIX Device Configuration Manager (cfgmgr) and the Object Data Manager (ODM) | p. 149 |
| ODM Overview | p. 150 |
| ODM Components | p. 150 |
| Device Configuration | p. 155 |
| Predefined and Customized Devices | p. 155 |
| Device States | p. 160 |
| Boot Devices | p. 160 |
| Small Computer System Interface | p. 161 |
| Using smitty cfgmgr to AutoConfigure Your System | p. 164 |
| Updating the Product Topology Diskette | p. 164 |
| Checklist | p. 165 |
| Tape Systems | p. 167 |
| Tape Tools | p. 173 |
| Linear Open Tape (LTO) Ultrium Tape Drives | p. 174 |
| IBM 3494 Enterprise Tape Library | p. 175 |
| Linux Tape Support | p. 176 |
| Public Domain Tape Tools | p. 176 |
| Checklist | p. 177 |
| The AIX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) | p. 179 |
| Disk Evolution | p. 180 |
| Disks Are Doubling Every Six Months | p. 180 |
| Disk Hardware | p. 180 |
| Disk Installation | p. 184 |
| Introducing the LVM | p. 191 |
| Configuring Volume Groups | p. 198 |
| Configuring Logical Volumes | p. 206 |
| Filesystems (JFS and JFS2) | p. 213 |
| Paging Space | p. 224 |
| Volume Maintenance | p. 228 |
| Troubleshooting | p. 230 |
| Checklist | p. 231 |
| Printers and the Print Subsystem | p. 233 |
| Data Flow of a Print Job | p. 234 |
| Configuring AIX Printers | p. 238 |
| lpd Daemon | p. 243 |
| Testing and Modifying Printer Configuration | p. 251 |
| Managing AIX Printers | p. 251 |
| Highly Available Print Queues | p. 255 |
| ASCII Terminal Printers | p. 256 |
| X Station Printers | p. 258 |
| Configuring and Using the System V Printer Subsystem | p. 259 |
| Checklist | p. 270 |
| Network Configuration and Customization | |
| TCP/IP | p. 275 |
| TCP/IP Network Model | p. 276 |
| Network Devices and Interfaces | p. 277 |
| Addressing | p. 283 |
| Network Routing | p. 287 |
| Domain Name System | p. 289 |
| TCP/IP Subsystems | p. 291 |
| DHCP | p. 293 |
| SLIP and PPP | p. 293 |
| Planning | p. 299 |
| TCP/IP Configuration | p. 299 |
| Network Security | p. 305 |
| TCP/IP Troubleshooting | p. 307 |
| Checklist | p. 308 |
| Networked Filesystems | |
| Networked Filesystems: NFS, NIS, and NIS+ | p. 311 |
| Network File System | p. 312 |
| NFS Server | p. 314 |
| NFS Clients | p. 316 |
| Network Information Services: NIS and NIS+ | p. 320 |
| Troubleshooting | p. 326 |
| Highly Available Servers | p. 327 |
| Checklist | p. 329 |
| Distributed File System | p. 331 |
| DFS Components | p. 336 |
| Installation and Configuration | p. 338 |
| Operation and Administration | p. 347 |
| Starting DFS | p. 348 |
| Access Control Lists | p. 349 |
| Fileset Replication | p. 350 |
| DFS Backup | p. 351 |
| Checklist | p. 351 |
| Linux Affinity | |
| Linux Affinity with AIX | p. 355 |
| Running Linux Applications on AIX 5L | p. 356 |
| Strong Linux Affinity with AIX | p. 363 |
| Checklist | p. 364 |
| Distributed Services | |
| Mail and Sendmail | p. 367 |
| Sendmail Components | p. 369 |
| Starting and Stopping Sendmail | p. 375 |
| Mail Logs | p. 376 |
| Configuration Examples | p. 376 |
| Delivery Agents and Protocols | p. 380 |
| Mail Clients | p. 382 |
| Debugging | p. 383 |
| Managing Mail Queues | p. 387 |
| Checklist | p. 388 |
| Apache Web Service | p. 389 |
| Creating Web Content | p. 399 |
| Web Browsers and Helper Applications | p. 405 |
| Checklist | p. 405 |
| X11 Administration | p. 407 |
| Overview | p. 408 |
| Components | p. 409 |
| Management | p. 410 |
| Start and Stop Display Managers | p. 419 |
| The Desktop Environment | p. 421 |
| Desktop Components | p. 421 |
| Desktop Summary | p. 425 |
| IBM X Station Administration | p. 425 |
| Checklist | p. 429 |
| Managing Users and Resources | |
| Managing the User Environment | p. 433 |
| Physical Resources | p. 434 |
| UID Space and Groups | p. 435 |
| Resource Limits | p. 437 |
| User Account Access Rights | p. 442 |
| User Account Environment | p. 442 |
| Managing User Accounts | p. 448 |
| Password Files | p. 454 |
| Checklist | p. 457 |
| Process Management | p. 459 |
| Process Attributes | p. 460 |
| Parent Child Inheritance | p. 465 |
| Controlling Processes | p. 466 |
| The /proc Filesystem | p. 468 |
| Scheduled Processes (cron) | p. 472 |
| System Resource Controller | p. 475 |
| Checklist | p. 478 |
| System Accounting | p. 479 |
| Data Collection | p. 480 |
| Accounting Configuration | p. 482 |
| Accounting Commands | p. 486 |
| Periodic Housecleaning | p. 490 |
| Checklist | p. 491 |
| Security | |
| Auditing and Security | p. 495 |
| Passwords | p. 497 |
| Alternative Authentication Methods | p. 499 |
| Controlling Superuser Access | p. 503 |
| Securing Network Access | p. 504 |
| Securing File Access | p. 504 |
| Trusted Computing Base | p. 508 |
| The Auditing Subsystem | p. 512 |
| Additional Security Tools | p. 516 |
| Sources of Information | p. 517 |
| Checklist | p. 517 |
| Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) | p. 519 |
| DCE RPC | p. 520 |
| AIX and DCE | p. 524 |
| DCE Planning | p. 527 |
| DCE Installation and Configuration | p. 529 |
| DCE Implementation Considerations | p. 536 |
| Driving DCE | p. 537 |
| Checklist | p. 537 |
| System Recovery and Tuning | |
| Backup and Copy Utilities | p. 541 |
| Backup Strategies | p. 544 |
| Backing Up a Filesystem | p. 549 |
| Creating a Bootable Operating System Image: mksysb | p. 549 |
| Use savevg for Non-Root Volume Groups | p. 551 |
| Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) | p. 552 |
| IBM's SysBack Utility | p. 553 |
| Restoring Files and Filesystems | p. 553 |
| Other Backup Utilities | p. 554 |
| Network Backups | p. 555 |
| Verifying the Backup Is Successful | p. 556 |
| Making a Copy of a Tape | p. 556 |
| What's on That Tape? | p. 556 |
| Checklist | p. 557 |
| System Monitoring and Tuning | p. 561 |
| Know Your Workload | p. 562 |
| AIX Operating System Characteristics | p. 562 |
| AIX Tuning Tools | p. 568 |
| AIX Monitoring Tools | p. 576 |
| Checklist | p. 581 |
| Problem Analysis and Recovery | p. 583 |
| Backups and Bootable Media | p. 584 |
| LED Status Information | p. 586 |
| Checking the Service Processor Error Log | p. 588 |
| What's in the System Error Report? | p. 589 |
| System Memory Dumps | p. 591 |
| System Logs | p. 592 |
| AIX Kernel Structure | p. 593 |
| crash Command Is Replaced by kdb in AIX 5L | p. 594 |
| Hardware Diagnostics Using diag | p. 594 |
| Calling for Help | p. 595 |
| Operating System Fixes | p. 595 |
| Checklist | p. 596 |
| High Availability | |
| HACMP and Clustering | p. 599 |
| Overview | p. 600 |
| Planning a Cluster | p. 601 |
| How HACMP Works | p. 602 |
| Creating a Cluster: Hardware Setup | p. 609 |
| Tuning AIX for HACMP | p. 612 |
| Creating a Cluster: Defining and Configuring Resources | p. 614 |
| Synchronizing the Cluster | p. 614 |
| Traditional IP Address Takeover and IPAT via IP Aliasing | p. 614 |
| Choosing a Resource Group Policy | p. 616 |
| HACMP Cluster Administration | p. 618 |
| Troubleshooting | p. 622 |
| Additional Features in HACMP | p. 624 |
| Checklist | p. 628 |
| Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage | |
| SAN, NAS, and iSCSI Consolidated Storage | p. 631 |
| Storage Consolidation | p. 632 |
| Network Attached Storage (NAS) | p. 634 |
| Storage Area Network (SAN) | p. 635 |
| Zoning | p. 638 |
| Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) a.k.a. the Shark | p. 640 |
| Checklist | p. 667 |
| Appendix | p. 669 |
| Index | p. 671 |
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