HACMP

Audience

This course is for experienced AIX system administrators who will be installing, configuring and/or supporting clustered UNIX Servers.

Prerequisites

Delegates should be experienced AIX Administrators. Attendance at Verhoef’s UNIX The Essentials, Shell Programming and AIX System Administration or equivalent knowledge is required. A good understanding of TCP/IP is also needed and completing our Understanding TCP/IP class would give delegates the knowledge to attend this course.

Duration

4 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

This course introduces delegates to the concepts of high availability and HACMP for AIX.

On completion of the course delegates will be able to:

• Understand the concepts and terminology of HACMP.
• Know the hardware requirements for installing HACMP.
• Install and configure HACMP.
• Administer an HACMP cluster
• Support and troubleshoot an HACMP cluster.

Course Content

Introduction to High Availability
Introduction to HACMP for AIX
Hardware and Software Requirements
Shared disks
Networks
Installation of HACMP
Configuration of HACMP
HACMP Components
Cluster Administration
Monitoring the Cluster.
Cluster Customisation
Cluster Testing
Troubleshooting the cluster