AIX Administrator

The learning streams above provide an in-depth overview of the AIX environment, describing the role of the AIX Administrator, Power hardware, data processing concepts, user and group configuration, and some of the commonly used Administrator commands. For those that are already UNIX system administrators, content on AIX is provided to help understand the differences between the two systems.

The learning stream above addresses the advanced skills, knowledge, and practices dealing with products that an AIX Administrator will need to know. This focusses on the tasks involved in creating and managing a virtualized AIX environment, and covers the fundamentals of virtualization in AIX environments, an examination of the Virtual I/O Server, and the use of management devices such as the HMC, IVM, and SDMC.

The learning streams above provide content focussing on business-related information. This includes disaster recovery, where the AIX Administrator will play a critical role in ensuring recoverability of business data, and infrastructure, ensuring they comply with any regulatory requirements. This person also needs to understand how coaching and mentoring practices can be implemented to ensure they, and other staff, are trained to meet their full potential.

The learning streams here are not mandatory but help to provide a holistic view of the environment that the user is working in. Topics such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Cloud, Containers, and Kubernetes and machine learning, provide an overview of various technologies available on the mainframe that your organization may be using. Knowledge of Linux system concepts, data editing, shell programming, and general operations may also be of benefit to this person.