System i (AS/400, iSeries, i5) System Management and Administration

Course Outline

This course is intended for experienced operators and support staff who are involved in managing and administering the system. The course covers detail on H/W (manage, upgrade, LPARs etc.) and system S/W (manage, upgrade the operating system, apply and manage PTFs etc.). Security is covered in depth (e.g. system values, create and manage user and group profiles, object authorities, authorisation lists etc.) as is Work Management (e.g. creating subsystems, customising the system, performance tuning etc.). Backup, recovery and availability of the system and effective management of the system (e.g. reducing disk storage, housekeeping tasks, speed up IPLs etc.) are also covered.

Pre-requisites

Ideally delegates will have attended the Advanced Operations course (ISOPA) or have equivalent hands on experience.

Course content

• Detail the key design principles/architecture of the system
• Display and manage HW resources using commands
• Manage hardware resources in Navigator
• HW upgrades
• Understand Commercial Processing Workload (CPW)
• Introduce the key concepts of Logical Partitioning (LPAR)
• Understand the benefits of LPAR
• Managing LPARs (CPU, Memory, devices, IPLs, backups, fixes etc.)
• Detail and manage licensed programs
• Detail SW maintenance/licensing and work with license information
• Manage server firmware and HMC firmware
• How to upgrade the operating system
• Load and apply corrective PTFs, group PTFs and cumulative PTF packages
• Manage PTFs (PTF order methods, copy/display/remove PTFs etc.)
• Detail the PTF tools in Navigator to easily apply, distribute and manage PTFs across one or more servers
• Recap on objects, libraries and the Integrated File System (IFS)
• Understand and work with system values
• Manage system values across servers
• Detail the security related system values
• Create/change/copy/delete/display/print and manage user and group profiles using CL commands
• Create and manage user and group profiles using Navigator
• Additional commands to manage user profiles (automatically disable/delete profiles, default passwords, object ownership etc.)
• Detail adopted authority and how to monitor and manage it
• Detail Service Tools User IDs (including – recover QSECOFR password)
• Detail how object authority works
• How Public authority is assigned
• Use CL commands to secure objects and manage security
• Use the security tools menus
• Create and manage authorisation lists
• How the system authenticates a user to an object
• How to secure the IFS
• Introduction to work management (how work flows through the system)
• How to create and modify subsystems (subsystem descriptions, work entries, routing entries etc.)
• Understand how user profiles, job descriptions and job classes interrelate
• Detail how system storage pools work, changing pool sizes and activity levels
• Tuning the system for good performance (fault rates, job transitions etc.)
• Detail the work management related system values
• Detail the key backup, recovery and availability options (e.g. system backups, restoring the system, journaling, commitment control, access path protection, mirrored systems, disk protection, ASPs, IASPs etc.)
• Key commands to analyse and manage disk storage capacity
• Key housekeeping tasks to reduce disk storage capacity (e.g. reorganise files, reclaim storage, cleanup menu etc.)
• Additional options to reduce disk storage capacity
• How to speed up IPLs

Follow on Courses

We recommend that after a suitable period of time of attending this course (e.g. 6 months hands on experience) then delegates may want to enhance the knowledge they have gained by attending the System Facilities (ISSFC) or CL programming (ISCLT) course depending on the job role of the delegate.

Schedule

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