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System Management Concepts:
Operating System and Devices

Contents

About This Book
Who Should Use This Book
How to Use This Book
ISO 9000
Related Publications
System Management
Unique Aspects of System Management in AIX
Unique Features of the Operating System
man Command
Starting and Stopping the System
Starting the System
Understanding the Boot Process
Understanding System Boot Processing
Understanding the Maintenance Boot Process
Understanding the RAM File System
Understanding the Shutdown Process
System Hang Detection
Logical Volumes
Logical Volume Storage Overview
Developing a Volume Group Strategy
Developing a Logical Volume Strategy
Implementing Volume Group Policies
Paging Space and Virtual Memory
Virtual Memory Manager (VMM) Overview
Paging Space Overview
File Systems
Organization and Contents of the File Tree
File System Management Tasks
Mounting Overview
File System Types
Backup and Restore
Backup Overview
Developing a Backup Strategy
Backing Up User Files or File Systems
Backing Up the System Image and User-Defined Volume Groups
System Environment
Profiles Overview
List of Time Data Manipulation Services
Dynamic Processor Deallocation
Process Management
Workload Management
WLM Concepts
Overview of WLM Classes
Process to Class Assignment in WLM
Managing Resources with WLM
Setting Up WLM
WLM Application Programming Interface
WLM Commands
Examples of WLM Classification, Rules, and Limits
Backward Compatibility
System Resource Controller and Subsystems
System Resource Controller Overview
System Accounting
Accounting Overview
Web-based System Manager
System Management Interface Tool
AIX Documentation
IBM eServer pSeries Information Center
Documentation Library Service
Devices
Configuring a Large Number of Devices
Device Nodes
Tape Drives
Tape Drive Attributes
Special Files for Tape Drives
Appendix A. Comparisons for BSD System Managers
Comparisions Between AIX and BSD for System Managers
Introduction to AIX for BSD System Managers
Major Differences between 4.3 BSD and this Operating System
Accounting for BSD 4.3 System Managers
Backup for BSD 4.3 System Managers
Startup for BSD 4.3 System Managers
Commands for 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 this Operating System
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. Notices
Trademarks
Index

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