Material for AIX newbies

[dman7777777]

I just got an IT job and I will be working on AIX servers. Of course they will train me, but I would like to learn on my own before then so I can be prepared. They use strictly command line for navigation at this new job. Can anyone recommend a commands list or some material for someone new to AIX? Basically, I am just doing low level maintence with the servers so to get started I need to focus just on the fundamentals and master them. I looked on the IBM redbooks but didn't exactly see anything for AIX newbies.

 

[tech123786]

Check out this link. Good information for beginers.

http://unixarticles.com/articles/10/1/AIX-Command-Crib-Sheet

 

[khalidaaa]

another link

http://www.unixguide.net/ibm/faq/

Regards,
Khalid

 

[jpor2003]

There are some good books around to get a hold of on the subject as well:

Having a look on-sites like Amazon.com for books on AIX 5L. If you want to go a step further. Try getting hold of a second hand workstation on e-bay, thsi way you can have a go at installing theO/S, Applying Technology Levels, and also will give you an oportunity to have a play in an environment that isn't critical.

 

[columb]

smit (smitty on a command line terminal) is your friend. Do somethign once using smit, which is menu driven, and then look a the smit.log and smit.script files to see what was run to do it.

Your second friend is the man pages. On AIX there are always examples at the end, and, 9 times out of 10, one of the examples will be what you want.

Your third friend is the web. There are plenty of sites where you'll find people prepared to help. The key points to remember are all summed up in this FAQ faq219-2884

Welcome to AIX!

Ceci n'est pas une signature
Columb Healy

 

[mrn]

Or do something in smit then by press F6 or esc+6 to see the command being used.

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[mag007]

or try using

smit -s <<your fast path>>

example:

smit -s crfs

this dumps a file, which has the scipt for you

 

[mag007]

Also, I picked up 70% of my AIX from sticking around here..
You see some interesting problems, and very good solutions. So welcome to AIX ;-)

 

[dman7777777]

naw...it's all strictly command line. right now i am studying the crib sheet and the ibm redbook aix cmmds you never want to leave home without. i also have the aix 5l administration book by kendall micheal....which is a good book but parts of it are hard for to grasp since i can't experiment with hands on. this all fantastic...thank you all for showing me what to read.