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AN15V2.1 : Power Systems for AIX III: Advanced Administration and

Problem Determination

ERC 2.1 changes:

Figure 10-29 - Accessing a SAN Copy and notes were modified for clarity

Exercise changes
Minor changes were made to the exercises to correct keying errors in commands and
to show emphasis where needed.

ERC 2.0 changes:

Course update objectives:

1) Update for running under AIX 7 and Montpellier Power7 environment
2) Drop WPAR Manager and (WebSM dependant) RMC material
3) Add content to replace the dropped material
4) correct known errors
5) Adjust to reflect any related AIX enhancements
6) Add content using virtual Fibre Channel attached disks
7) Adjust to use new standard power point templates
8) Update to comply with accessibility requirements
9) Update to make flash animations available

LIST OF NEW COURSE MODULES

- Unit 10 - Advanced backup techniques (portions of previous ERC unit 9, plus

additional content)
- Exercise 10 - matching exercises

- unit 11 - Diagnostics (revival of Diagnostics unit form older versions with some
updates)
- Exercise 11 - matching exercises

LIST OF RENAMED COURSE MODULES

- Unit 5:
old: System Initialization: Part I
new: System Initialization: Accessing a boot image

- unit 6:
old: System Initialization: Part II
new: System Initialization: rc.boot and inittab

- unit 7:
old: Disk Management Theory
new: LVM metadata and related problems

- unit 9:
old: Install and backup techniques
new: Install and cloning techniques

LIST OF DELETED COURSE MODULES

- unit 10: Workload Partitions (WPAR and WPAR Manager will be covered by courses
dedicated to these subjects)
- Exercise 10: Workload Manager

LIST MAJOR UPDATED MODULES, SHORT UPDATE SUMMARY OF EACH MODULE

- Much of theupdate involved correcting (so-called) typographical errors:

punctuation, spelling, grammar, etc.
References to AIX 6 code levels and documentation have been replaced with
references and documents for AIX 7, when apropriate.
Many small improvements to the notes (student and or instructor)
These will, generally, not be itemized in this document.

When refererencing dropped material, the unit and figure numbers are from the old
ERC1 version of the course.
All other references are unit and figure numbers from this new ERC2 version of
the course.

- Unit 1 (Overview)
- Dropped fig 1-3 comparing LPM with LAM
- fig 8 - cleaned up outdated refernces to inforcenter web pages
- fig 9 - added screen capture of current infocenter web page with currentky
correct URL
- fig 11 - correct the command sequence for snap processing
- fig 14 - updated list of pagelinks on the infocenter entry page

- Exercise 1
- infocenter exploration re-written to match current design of the web pages

- Module Unit 2 (ODM)

- fig 8 - updated slide and improved notes
- added fig 22 summary of high level commands and how they related to ODM

- Exercise 2
- step 4 clarified the object class and description for the last fill-in

- Module Unit 3 (Error Monitoring)

- Dropped topic on RMC conditions and responses
- fig 2 - redesignd slide to simplify and emphasize main points
- fig 15 - fixed wrapping of text for daemon.debug line

- Exercise 3
- Dropped RMC part (needed WebSM which is no longer supported in AIX 7)

- Module Unit 4 (NIM)

- fig 4 - redesignd to simplify and focus on main points
- fig 5 and 6 - old fig 4-5 was split into 2 simplified visuals which parallel
the new fig 4 design
- fig 4-19 updated documents and course references; deleted excess student
notes

- Exercise 4
- Updated for new Montpellier naming conventio and new code levels
- step 10 - provided reset command in the instructions (not just hints)
- step 11 - corrected name of the SPOT object
- step 15 - organized the detailed instructions for HMC as a separate step
 generaly improved the instructions,
updated to match current firmware GUI
- step 18 - updated reference code value
- step 20 - placed network boot procedure "in-line"
rather than referencing previous instructions
- step 21 - minor improvement to the instructions

- Module Unit 5 (system Init: Accessing a boot image)

- fig 1 - dropped LED codes from objectives
- fig 2 - dropped POST from visual (not approp for LPAR)
- fig 5 - replaced last example (network entry on bootlist)
with description of the default bootlist
- fig 15 - replaced shutdown -FR with sync;sync;reboot
- fig 17 - Exercise introduction - changed to match exercise changes

- Exercise 5
- Added part on working with multipath bootlists

- Module Unit 6 (system Init: rc.boot and inittab)

- cover page - dropped ref to old RS6K eserver pseries diagnostic information
for multiple bss system
- fig 4 - add more 517 code locations
- fig 6 - added more 517 and 518 code locations
- fig 16 - dropped student notes on shdaemon (covered elsewhere)
- fig 17 - replaced chart with one developed for AN14
dropped redundant student notes (journal log corruption)
- fig 19 - Checpoint : dropped corrupted BLV answer for Q 2

- Exercise 6
- Added new part 3 on exploring the rc.boot script

- Module Unit 7 (LVM Matadata and related problems)

- dropped miroring and PV states - moved topic to Unit 8
- added import and export VG topic - moved topic from Unit 8
- fig 1 - updated objective to match topics
- fig 3 - added unique_id to examples of identifiers
- fig 5 - moved ODM to bottom of visual (segue to next slide)
- fig 6 - added visual summarizng LVM related ODM objects
- fig 7 thru 12: inserted prior to metadata details: exportvg and importvg
content (from old Unit 8)
- fig 14 - replaced lqueryvg example in notes with IAX 7.1 example
- fig 18 - added slide illustrating both pvid and unique_id attributes
dropped chdev pv attribute from visual
- fig 19 - addd slide focused on how ww_name and lun_id are used to form the
pysical location code for an FC attached disk
- fig 29 - exercise intro upadted to reflect new exercise content

- Exercise 7
- dropped mirroring and quorum - moved part to Unit 8
- added import and export VG - moved part from Unit 8
- made part (intermediate commands) required (was optional)
- Part 1 (import and export) updated to use lqueryvg and getlvcb commands
- Part 3
step 38 - corrected name of filesystem in chfs command
step 42 - added -d option to reducevg command
- Part 5
 step 55 - added question and space to fill in the answer
step 64 - clarified what disk to reference
step 68 - added missing "lsvg -o" command
step 69 - corrected chfs filesystem name

- Module Unit 8 (Disk Management procedures)

- added mirroring and PV states - moved topic from Unit 7
- dropped import and export VG topic - moved topic to Unit 7
- fig 4 - updated procedure for mirroeing the rootvg
rewrote and improved notes (especially the instructor notes)
- fig 7 - re-wrote the visual
varyoff and varyon of VG not needed to make disable of quorum
enforcement effective
- fig 11 through 14: repaced old fig 8-3 with a series of visuals
includes us of replacepv adn special rootvg considerations
- fig 20 - relabeled visuals on frequent dispk replacement errors
dropped first visual in the old series
Redesignd visual and notes on the removal of a disk wthout first executing
reducevg
- fig 23 - Checkpoint - changed Q3 solution
- fig 24 - Exercsie intro - updated to reflect changed exercise content

- Exercise 8
- added mirroring and quorum - moved part from Unit 7
- dropped import and export VG - moved part to Unit 7
- step 5 - correctd mismatch between instructions and examples on which disks to
examine
- step 13 - correctd error in disk name
- steps 25 and 26: cirrected error in volume group references
- steps 35 - made migration back to hdisk0 required
- step 41 - corrected command anme (migratepv)

- Module Unit 9 (Install and cloning Techniques)

- Dropped JFS2 snapshot topic - moved to new Unit 10
- fig 3 - corrected error with reversal of alt_clone and alt_mksysb
and moved excess student notes to instructor notes
- fig 8 - replaced reboot command with shutdown -Fr
- fig 9 - corrected error in example command
and updated to show migration form AIX 6 to AIX 7
- figs 14 and 15: split previous 9-14 into two visuals
and correctd error on the path to th mount point
- figs 16 and 17: split previous 9-15 into two visuals
and corrected eror in path to mount point
and correctd syntax error in bootlist command
- figs 19 and 20: checkpoint - dropped snashot related questions
and reduced to 6 questions.

- Exercise 9
- Eliminated jumping back and forth between lecture and lab while waiting on
cloning
clone operation runs much faster now.
- changed to go from 7100-00-01 to 7100-00-2 in the update operation

- Module Unit 10 (Advanced backup techniques)

- covers:
JFS2 snaphot (previiously in old unit 9)
 snapshot volume groups
JFS splitcopy
SAN Copy
- added fig 2 on data consistency concepts
- added fig 3 on ensurin data consistency
- fig 5 thru 7: JFS splitcopy content revived fron older ERC
- fig 8 thru 11: snapshot VG content revived (and updated) from older ERC
- fig 12 thru 24: JFS2 snapshot conttent moved from previous course level unit 9
- fig 22 and 23: created separate visuals for internal versus external snapshots
previously fig 9-27
- fig 24 and 25: created separate visuals for internal versus external snapshots
previously fig 9-27
- fig 25 thru 31: new topic on SAN copy
- fig 26 - new slide on data consistency for SAN copy
- fig 27 - new slide on JFS2 freeze and thaw
- fig 28 - new slide on consistency groups
- fig 29 - new slide on accessing SAN Copy data
- fig 30 - new slide on recreatvg command
- fig 32 - checkpoint - new questions

- Exercise 10
- JFS2 snapshot from Ex9 in previous version of course
- added: JFS splitcopy
- adde: snapshot volume groups
- added: using filesystem as a recovery source

- Module Unit 11 (Diagnostics)

- Was previously an appendix in the course
- fig 3 - added slide on physical adpapter location in a virtualized environment
- fig 5 - added slode of the top level diag menu
- fig 10 - updated to reflect HMC and LPAR environment
- fig 11 - added slide to show ability to use NIM (boot to diag)
- fig 12 - upadted notes to have a current diag task list

- Exercise 11
- redesigned to use IVE (lhea) port for the tested device
- created separate exercise parts for each mode of diagnosis
- added new part on network booting to diagnostics using NIM server

- Module Unit 12 (Dump)

- Was previously an appendix in the course
- fig 8 - added visual on firmware-assisted dump and reated AIX 7 enhancements
- fig 11 - added visual on defining a dedicated dump logical volume
- fig 17 - added HMC screen capture of anLPAR reset with dump option
- fig 19 - updated to show alternate path when using a dedicated dump device
- fig 23 - checkpoint - dropped Q2 (on dump compression)

- Exercise 12
- added section on working with dedicated dump devices
- added section on generating a firmware-assisted dump
- added section on initiating a dump from the HMC

Good luck in the use of this course.