This document is intended to provide a practical guideline to AIX V3 System Management. It contains information for understanding and performing system management tasks that are integral to the system. Tips and techniques which are contained in various forums and IBM tools disks have been included in this document to help the system administrator with daily or routine maintenance. Some recovery procedures for the most common problems are included in some chapters.
This document is intended for persons requiring detailed knowledge of various system management tasks on AIX V3. This document is targeted towards maintaining a single machine running AIX V3.2 or above.
The document is organized as follows:
System Management Overview provides details about AIX V3 and defines terminolgy associated with AIX V3.
An overview of System Management Interface Tools (SMIT) is provided in this chapter. There is an example of SMIT customization. All aspects of SMIT are not covered in this chapter.
This chapter gives an introduction to Object Data Manager (ODM). The scope of the discussion in this chapter will be limited to using ODM for system management purposes only. For further details please refer to documents referred to in this chapter.
This chapter describes AIX V3 boot process. The most common problems that can occur during the boot process and the possible recovery procedures are discussed in this chapter.
This chapter describes various techniques used for AIX V3 storage Management. AIX V3 logical volume manager (LVM) is described in detail. Various subcommands used to tune LVM are included in this chapter.
This chapter describes printer management in AIX V3 for local and remote printers.
This chapter describes AIX V3 selective fix strategy. AIX V3.2.4 is discussed in detail. Guidelines to install PTFs for AIX V3.2.4 are included in this chapter.
This chapter describes some methods to apply the AIX PMP 3240 update on an AIX V3.2 system. The new features in AIX V3.2.4 are described with examples.
This chapter describes how to manage AIX V3 backup and restore procedures. Various strategies are included in this chapter with suggested guidelines.
This chapter analyzes AIX V3.2 performance monitoring and tuning. While AIX V3 performance monitoring and tuning is available as a service offering, this chapter discusses the already available basic tools and its usage.
This chapter gives an introduction to AIX V3.2 security. AIX V3 implementation of security is discussed.
This chapter describes AIX V3.2 problem determination and debugging techniques. Emphasis is given to recovering a system that is totally inactive. Error log and the procedures for taking a system dump are described in detail.
The publications listed in this section are considered particularly suitable for a more detailed discussion of the topics covered in this document.
A complete list of International Technical Support Organization publications, with a brief description of each, may be found in: