This session is intended to provide technical guidance in the form of best practices and general rules of thumb when setting up and managing an AIX/ pSeries environment. It covers initial tuning suggestions, monitoring, recovery, maintenance and testing practices. The content herein will cover current AIX versions 5.1 and 5.2 with a light smattering of AIX 5.3. The AIX administrator should receive valuable information about managing an infrastructure that has a pSeries/ AIX component including initial tuning values and monitoring suggestions for database or application servers or web servers.


Session objectives:


Identify Rules of Thumb and Best Practices in the areas of:

• Installation & Maintenance
  
• Tuning
  
• Monitoring
  
• Testing