First Edition (October 1997)

Trademarks and Acknowledgements

About This Book

Note to Users

Chapter 1. System Management with AIX

Chapter 2. Starting and Stopping the System

Chapter 3. Security

Chapter 4. Administrative Roles

Chapter 5. Managing Users and Groups

Chapter 6. Logical Volumes

Chapter 7. File Systems

Chapter 8. Paging Space and Virtual Memory

Chapter 9. Backup and Restore

Chapter 10. System Environment

Chapter 11. National Language Support

Chapter 12. Process Management

Chapter 13. System Resource Controller and Subsystems

Chapter 14. System Accounting

Chapter 15. Setting Up and Running Web-based System Manager

Chapter 16. System Management Interface Tool

Chapter 17. Managing the AIX Common Desktop Environment

Chapter 18. Documentation Search Service

Chapter 19. Managing Power Management

Chapter 20. Devices

Chapter 21. Tape Drives

Appendix A. AIX for BSD System Managers

AIX for BSD System Managers Overview

Introduction to AIX for BSD System Managers

Major Differences between 4.3 BSD and AIX

Accounting for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Backup for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Boot and Startup for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Commands for AIX System Administration for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Cron for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Devices for BSD 4.3 System Managers

File Comparison Table for 4.3 BSD, SVR4, and AIX

File Systems for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Finding and Examining Files for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Paging Space for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Networking for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Online Documentation and man Command for BSD 4.3 System Managers

NFS and NIS (formerly Yellow Pages) for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Passwords for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Performance Measurement and Tuning for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Printers for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Terminals for BSD 4.3 System Managers

UUCP for BSD 4.3 System Managers

Appendix B. Managing the InfoExplorer Program