Intro to AIX

This outline is an introduction to AIX. Its target audience is system administrators that are already familiar with other flavors of Unix, but need to familiarize themselves with the AIX's unique quirks.

  1. SMIT
  2. Filesystems and the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
  3. The ODM and Devices
  4. User and Account Management
  5. System Resource Controller (SRC)
  6. System Backups with mksysb
  7. Booting an RS/6000
  8. Diagnostics and The Error Log
  9. AIX Software Packaging
Mark D. Roth <roth@feep.net>