Help with AIX administrative commands and sources

[gogators93]

I am a casual user of AIX and I know the basics user commands. I am being placed in a new role in my company and will be supporting a third party product that runs on an AIX server. I have to go through an interview to check my knowledge that will be centered around being able to troubleshoot AIX and solve problems. They don't expect me to be an AIX administrator, but they do expect me to know how to troubleshoot the AIX server to determine if there are any problems with the server or the application and will be asking me questions around that subject.

I would appreciate it if someone could direct me to what commands I should read up on that I would be expected to know and if there is a good reference site on the internet that would explain these commands or provide some good information to help educate myself.

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[gogators93]

Anyone?

 

[bi]

what kind of application? Is there a database? If so, which one?

 

[gogators93]

It's a content management application and will probably be using UDB. I'm just looking for some of the more usefull AIX commands that would give me system information for troubleshooting the system. Not really application specific stuff.

 

[victorv]

hi,
in these cases, when you start from 0, I belive that
the best way is to read a book: choose any, buy it at a book-shop (physical or in the web), and
read it from begin to end as a KenFollet story.

After this, you can appreciate suggests from forums,
IBM sites, electronic RED-book, ecc.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

from here you can order book at IBM or download them
in PDF format .

bye

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi ,

There are plenty of sites which give you list of AIX commands , even IBM redbooks i.e. system admin , performance monitoring which are all free , have a looka t some of the sites

http://www.davearts.com/kunden/tenir/aixcomma.htm

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ds_form?lang=en_US

http://www.rootvg.net/

HTH

 

[KenCunningham]

For a summary of AIX commands (amongst other *nixes) and what they are for, see:

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

Good luck.

 

[mrn]

When is your interview?.

The main things to check are

df -k (check file systems arn't filling up)
errpt -a (check the Hardware error log)
mailx (as root + app owner, to check mail)
Backups
Security (If this is an issue)
Database tablespaces ( If you have any)

other than that you'll need a bit more indepth knowledge of the app you are supporting, do you already have a system admin?

You will from time to time need to look at stuff like disk I/O, network stats, mem usage, the list goes on....

Hope this helps a little




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| Mike Nixon
| Unix Admin
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[vivek1712]

U will get some helpful commands at

http://www.ahinc.com/aix/security.htm

Best Regards,
vivek

 

[gogators93]

Thanks everyone. That is just what I was looking for to get some extra information. You have been very helpful.

Thanks again.