IRIX: The System Admin (Silicon Graphics Release 6.X)

Audience

This course is for experienced support staff or users who have hands-on experience with a UNIX based system, or who have used another type of system and have attended suitable pre-training.

Prerequisites

The participant should have a good basic understanding of UNIX, preferably gained through our UNIX and Linux The Essentials course, and ideally some practical experience in the workplace.

Duration

4 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

The course is highly interactive and consists of theory with plenty of hands on practical content. It will provide attendees with the self-sufficiency and confidence to manage and provide first line support of an IRIX based system. It will enable delegates to cope satisfactorily with the day to day running of a multi-user IRIX site and provide support to users and other administration functions (e.g. DBA.) This course will also provide a firm base on which more advanced system administration techniques can be based. This course will also provide a firm base on which more advanced system administration techniques can be based.

Course Content

UNIX Review Administration Interfaces
Configuring the System
User & Group Management
Peripheral Management
Backups & Security
Processes and Scheduling
System Startup & Shutdown
IRIX (Prom) Level
UNIX Level
Disk Management
Partitioning
File System Creation
Logical Volumes
Creating & Maintaining XLVs
System Maintenance
Software Maintenance
Booting from Miniroot