iSeries (AS/400) System Administration

Introduction

The course is intended for experienced operators and support staff who are involved in managing and administering the system. The course covers details of H/W ( manage, upgrade, LPAR's etc) and systems S/W ( manage, upgrade the operating system, apply and manage PTF's etc.). Security is covered in depth (e.g. system values, create and manage user and group profiles, object authorities, authorisation lists etc.) as is Work Management (e.g. creating subsystems, customising the system, performance tuning etc.). Backup, recovery and availabilty of the system and effective management of the system ( e.g. reducing disk storage, housekeeping tasks, speed up IPL's etc.) are also covered.

Who should attend

IT staff involved in the management and administration of an iSeries Server/s.

Pre-requisites

iSeries OPERATIONS or iSeries ADVANCED OPERATIONS must be attended prior to this course, followed by a further period of practical work. Delegates with the equivalent knowledge through practical use of the iSeries may also attend this course.

Course content

• Detail the key design principles/architecture of the system.
• Display and manage HW resources using commands.
• Manage hardware resources in Navigator.
• HW upgrades.
• Understand Commercial Processing Workload (CPW).
• Introduce Logical Partitioning (LPAR).
• Understand the benefits of LPAR.
• Managing LPAR's (CPU, Memory, devices, IPL's, backups, fixes etc.).
• Detail and manage licensed programs.
• Detail SW maintenance/licensing and work with license information.
• Manage server firmware and HMC firmware.
• How to upgrade the operating system.
• Load and apply corrective PTF's, group PTF's and cumulative PTF packages.
• Manage PTF's (PTF order methods, copy/display/remove PTF's etc.).
• Detail the PTF tools in Navigator to easily apply, distribute and manage PTF's across one or more servers.
• Recap on objects, libraries and the Intergrated File System (IFS).
• Understand and work with system values.
• Manage system values across servers.
• Detail the security related system values.
• Creat/change/copy/delete/display/print and manage user and group profils using CL commands.
• Create and manage user and group profiles using Navigator.
• Additional commands to manage user profiles ( automatically disble/delete profiles, default passwords, object ownership etc.).
• Detail adopted authority and how to monitor and manage it.
• Detail Service Tools User ID's (including - recover QSECOFR password).
• Detail how object authority works.
• How public authority is assigned.
• Use CL commands to secure objects and manage security.
• Use the security tools menu.
• Create and manage authorisation lists.
• How the system authenticates a user to an object.
• How to secure the IFS.
• Introduction to Work Management (how work flows through the system).
• How to create and modify subsystems (subsystem descriptions, work entries, routing entries etc.).
• Understand how user profiles, job descriptions and job classes interrelate.
• Detail how system storage pools work, changing pool sizes and activity levels.
• Detail the key backup, recovery and availability options (e.g. system backups, restoring the system, journaling, commitment control, access path protection, mirrored systems, disk protection, ASP's, IASP's etc.).
• Key commands to analyse and manage disk storage capacity.
• Key housekeeping tasks to reduce disk storage capacity ( e.g. reorganise files, reclaim storage, cleanup menu etc.).
• Additional options to reduce disk storage capacity.
• How to speed up IPL's.

Materials

A course manual with supporting documentation is provided. The course includes exercises on work management, security, and backup and recovery etc.

Follow on courses

We reccomend that after a suitable period of time having attended this course ( e.g. 6 months hands on experience ) then delegates may want to enhance the knowledge they have gained by attending the System Facilities (ISSFC) or CL Programming (ISCLT) course depending on their job role.

Other courses also worth considering depending on your working enviroment are, LPAR, BRMS.

Schedule

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