Date: October 6, 2007
Steve Pittman has posted his AIX 5.3 "best practices" on the following wiki's.
AIX Wiki home: http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/Home
System Admin Best Practices1 - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/AIXV53AdminBestPractice
System Admin Best Practices2 - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/AIXV53AdminBPFiles
Installation Best Practices - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/Installation
Software Maintenance Best Practices - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/AIXV53Maint
SAN boot considerations - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/AIXV53SANBoot
Backup and Restore - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/AIXV53Backup
Hardware Management Console - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/virtualization/HMC_bk
In addition to Steve's best practices, I recommend having a
Service Level Agreement to define the business need. Let
the business need drive your "best practices".
Bruce Spencer,
baspence@us.ibm.com
October 6, 2007