Geoff, it sounds like you're under the gun and will need to hit the ground
running (pardon the mixed metaphores). Your best bet would be to head to
the bookstore and get Essential Systems Administration by Aileen Fisch
(sp?). It's an O'Reilly Press book and it'll get you up to "starting" speed
really quickly. It touches on some routine administrative tasks for Unixes
in general and gives examples for several different flavors. Please note,
this isn't all you'll need, but it should get you started.
Oh, and as I mentioned before, be sure to check out the AIX Administration
self study guide at www.redbooks.ibm.com. There are better, more indepth
redbooks, but that one covers the basics about as quickly as it can be done.
At the very least, download the PDF and read the chapters on the Logical
Volume Manager; it helps a lot.
Alex Paschal
Storage Administrator
Freightliner, LLC
(503) 745-6850 phone/vmail
(503) 745-5091 fax
-----Original Message-----
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 6:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Another AIX question
>Overall, though, you need an AIX person there to be looking
>after your AIX
>system: working on root volume group file systems as a casual
>tourist is
>dangerous.
>
> Richard Sims, BU
Richard,
Everyone take a deep breath before you laugh....I am the AIX person.
I'm sure you all started with the same knowledge of AIX as me. I know I'm
very much lacking in this area, but I got this server dumped on me without
any notice. I'm just one of the NT guys and could take care of ADSM/TSM
easily if it were on that OS. Unfortunately it's not...or should I say
fortunately.
Not only do I feel AIX is a better platform for TSM, it has given me a
chance to expand my knowledge. From what I can tell AIX is not as widespread
as many of the Unix platforms, and I don't know anything about them either,
but it still seems like a stable and robust OS.
The company has given me an IBM education card that allows me to take as
many classes as I want in the next year. I don't know how many I can shove
into this pea brain during that time, with all the work I have to do, but I
plan on using the first book at least. Hopefully I can learn enough to get
comfortable.
I'm not one to go off and start mucking around in an area I have no
knowledge of. That's why I call AIX support and am constantly asking, what
may seem to some, simple little questions. But I'd rather look stupid asking
them instead of looking stupid rebuilding something I screwed up because I
didn't ask.
As always, thanks for all the help. You guys are great.
Geoff Gill
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
Computer Systems Group
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