This course is designed to teach experienced HACMP professionals the latest features in HACMP.
Students should have experience with installing and performing standard HACMP configuration functions, which can be obtained through the course AU54: HACMP System Administration I: Planning and Implementation. Note: AU54 is a mandatory prerequisite.
Students should also have experience with the following skills, which are prerequisites for AU61:
- The AIX 5L operating system. Ideally, students should be certified to level IBM Certified Specialist – eServer p5 pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L V5.3 (Test 222) or equivalent.
- The IBM server hardware which they are using
- The principles of good system management
- TCP/IP communications concepts and tools, as covered in AU07
- LVM concepts and configuration, as covered in AU14, AU16, AU20
- Knowledge of an external shared disk environment such as SCSI, Serial Storage Architecture (SSA), or FC disk subsystems, as covered in AU20, AU54
- Good Korn Shell script programming
The objectives of this class are to review HACMP fundamental concepts, components, and new features (including virtualization). Students will gain advanced information that will be vital when building and/or administering complex HA configurations.
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Review fundamental HACMP concepts and components
- Take a look at what’s new with HACMP v5.4
- Use the more complex extended path configuration options
- Determine the status of the cluster and cluster components
- Integrate applications into HACMP
- Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) v5.3 Server
- “Grumpy” application
- Enhance security in a highly available cluster
- Implement AIX IPSec VPN and HACMP message authentication and encryption
- Perform problem determination on an HACMP cluster:
- Application problems
- LVM configuration problems
- Networking and RSCT configuration problems
- Event script problems