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AIX 5L System Administration I: Implementation (Q1314)

IBM instructors demonstrate the lab portion of the course should the classroom version of this course contain labs. Lab files required to perform labs are not available for distribution.

This course applies to both pSeries 600 and RS/6000 Servers and is appropriate for individuals administering AIX Version 4 installations.

Learn to be an effective system administrator for one or more AIX systems. Prepare for the IBM eServer Certified Specialist - pSeries AIX System Administration and pSeries AIX System Support certification tests. Learn how to install, customize, and handle common AIX system administration tasks using the AIX Version 5.1 operating system in a multiuser environment. Learn the basic commands and skills for administering the AIX Version 5.1 operating system.

After this course, you should complete:

* AIX 5L System Administration II: Problem Determination (Q1316)

Audience
System administrators, implementers, and managers of AIX Version 5.1 on an IBM RS/6000 system.

Skills taught
* Install the AIX Version 5.1 operating system, software bundles, and filesets
* Perform system startup and shutdown
* Use the available system management tools: System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and the Web-based System Manager
* Configure devices
* Manage print queues
* Manage physical and logical volumes
* Perform file systems management
* Manage paging space on disk
* Create and manage user and group accounts
* Perform and restore system backups
* Utilize administration subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks and security to implement customized access of files and directories
* Describe basic AIX networking concepts

Course outline
* System management tools: SMIT and the Web-based System Manager
* Software installation and management
* System startup and shutdown
* Printers and queues
* Managing queues
* System storage overview
* Working with the logical volume manager
* Working with file systems
* Managing file systems
* Paging space
* Backup and restore
* Security User administration
* Scheduling Networking overview

Certification
This course helps you prepare for:
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Fedora 9 Have Been Released today! You can found a Released Note here.

What is Fedora?

Fedora is a set of projects sponsored by Red Hat and guided by contributors. These projects are developed by a large community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open source software and standards. The center piece of the Fedora Project is an operating system that is released twice a year, and is based on the Linux kernel, that is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.

Features:

• This release features GNOME 2.22. GNOME now includes a webcam photo and video creation utility called Cheese, improved network filesystem support, a new international clock applet, Google Calendar support and custom email labels in Evolution, a new Remote Desktop Viewer, improved accessibility features, and PolicyKit integration.
• KDE 4.0.3 is available in the KDE Live image as well as the regular DVD.
• Xfce 4.4.2 is available as part of this release.
• NetworkManager 0.7 provides improved mobile broadband support, including GSM and CDMA devices, and now supports multiple devices and ad-hoc networking for sharing connections. It is now enabled by default on installations from DVD, CD, the network, and Live images.
• The Fedora installer, Anaconda, now supports partition resizing for ext2/3, NTFS filesystems, creating and installing to encrypted file systems, improved Rescue Mode with FirstAidKit, independent locations for the second stage installer and the software packages. A redesigned, larger netboot.iso image now features a second stage installer partly for this reason.
• Live USB images now support persistence, so your data and setting changes will be preserved even after rebooting.
• PackageKit, a new set of graphical and console tools, with a framework for cross-distribution software management, has replaced Pirut in this release of Fedora. The PackageKit graphical updater is available instead of Pup. Behind PackageKit, the performance of yum has been significantly improved.
• FreeIPA makes managing auditing, identity and policy processes easier by providing web-based and command line provisioning, and administration tools to ease system administration. FreeIPA combines the power of the Fedora Directory Server with FreeRADIUS, MIT Kerberos, NTP and DNS to provide an easy, out of the box solution.
• Ext4, the next version of the mature and stable ext3 filesystem is available as a option in this release. Ext4 features better performance, higher storage capacity and several other new features.
• This release of Fedora uses Upstart, an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon.
• Firefox 3 brings a number of major improvements including a native look and feel, desktop integration, the new Places replacement for bookmarks, and a re-worked address bar.
• The completely free and open source Java environment OpenJDK 6 is installed by default. IcedTea 7, derived from OpenJDK 1.7, is no longer the default. IcedTea includes a browser plug-in based on GCJ, and is available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. GCJ is still the default on PPC architecture.
• OpenOffice.org 2.4, with many new features, is available as part of Fedora 9.
• Fedora now includes Perl 5.10.0, which features a smaller memory footprint and other improvements.
• Fedora now includes TeXLive to replace the older, unmaintained TeX distribution.
• Fedora 9 features a 2.6.25 based kernel.
• Kernel crashes can be more automatically reported to http://www.kerneloops.org/ and diagnosed in a friendly way via the kerneloops package installed by default. Crash signatures are commonly referred to as oopses in Linux.
• Work on the start-up and shutdown in X has yielded noticeable improvements.

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We posted about Windows 7 screenshot last month and you can see the Windows 7 features demo from youtube now.

Microsoft Corp has launched a new online service in 20 countries which will allow users to watch video clips at the same time as a network of friends and chat via Windows Live Messenger.

The new service called Messenger TV will offer a range of clips on MSN Video including MTV shows and music clips from providers such as Sony BMG.

The firm hopes the ability to watch clips with friends on different computers will create a new social experience and attract users who already spend hours on social networks.

“Online video has exploded in popularity over the last year, but to date it has been something people watch on their own. Messenger TV is set to change all that,” said John Mangelaars, the vice-president, EMEA, of consumer and online for Microsoft.

“Watching video online can now be a social experience, as people watch videos together, make comments and share reactions.”

The service will launch in 20 countries including many European countries, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Canada and Mexico but not the United States.
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According to Reuters, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Singtel) and its mobile associates will bring Apple Inc’s popular iPhone to Singapore, India, Australia and the Philippines later this year, Southeast Asia’s largest phone company said on Monday.

SingTel said that it, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Globe Telecom Inc and Australian unit Optus had signed the agreement with Apple.
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