IBM AIX Administration Training Online

IBM AIX (Advanced Interactive Executive) is a sequence of proprietary UNIX operating systems established and traded by IBM for several of computer platforms. Initially released for the IBM Risc workstation, AIX is now supports a wide variety of hardware platforms, as well as the IBM RS/6000 series and advanced IBM POWER and PowerPC systems, System/370 mainframes, IBM System I, PS/2 personal computers, also Apple Network Server.

SMIT is the System Management Interface Tool for AIX. It allows a user to direct a menu hierarchy of instructions, than consuming the command line. Supplication is typically realised with the command smit. Knowledgeable system administrators make uses of the F6 function key which creates the command line which SMIT will demand to complete the proposed task. SMIT also generates a log of commands that are performed in the smit.script file. The smit.script file routinely records the commands with the command flags and parameters used. The file can be used as an executable shell script to rerun system configuration tasks. SMIT also use to create the log file that contains extra detailed information that can be used by programmers in extending the SMIT system.

• AIX practices a hierarchical file tree which consists of files, directories, and subdirectories.
• The highest level directory is called as the root (/) directory which has more subdirectories.
• The file tree is fixed during the system start-up.

Command is a demand to perform an operation or run a program. A process is a program that is really running on the computer. We use to commands the operating system that what task you want it to perform. When commands are passing in, they are deciphered by a command translator that also known as a shell and task is processed.

The following are unique features of AIX.

• System Resource Controller
• Object Data Manager
• Software Vital Product Data
• Logical Volume Manager
• Workload management
• Operating system updates