IBM P System Administration test information

IBM offers a System P Administration exam. The exam code has been changed from 000-222 to 000-223. For preparing the certification, you can use the certification guide from the IBM which has been published in the form of Redbooks. You can avail the Redbook for the certification exam 000-222 and there is no Redbook for 000-223. But it is helpful when read the 222 certification guide.

The following link will provide you the Redbook link.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247199.html

The syllabi for the 000-223 exam can be viewed from the following link.

http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/tests/obj223.shtml

Dumps can be get from the following link

http://www.examcollection.com/

http://www.testkink.com/

http://www.actualtests.com/

Network Installation Manager

Network Installation Manager is a kind of client/server application which follows object oriented approach.

It is used to install aix filesets over the network. Also It is used to manage those installed filesets on this machines in the network.

A basic NIM environment consists of several p series machines, minimum of two
Which will be connected through the TCP/IP network. A physical network can be shared by more than one NIM environment. So that one physical machine may be exists in more than one NIM environment.

Benefits and features – NIM

NIM is a free product which will be given in the AIX 5L CD.

NIM allows the aix system administrators to manage the server boxes remotely,

Using NIM, multiple machines can be installed at the same time.

Multiple AIX versions, Maintenance levels and Technology levels can be used in the NIM.

In case of disaster recovery, the local systems can be recovered quickly without the mksysb image and the AIX CD.

NIM supports cloning efficiently.

NIM Configuration

Login as root
Ensure all the filesets has been installed by using the command lslpp.
Configure the NIM server and NIM client by using smitty nim.

AIX Versions

AIX stands for Advanced Interactive eXecutive. It is an Unix operating system. It will run only on IBM machines and can not be installed in Windows supported system. When comparing to other flavors of unix, AIX is very powerful. This is because of Logical Volume Manager which helps us to manage the hard disks very efficiently. Another important thing is, In aix all the commands are very easy to remember and related to the common terms.

AIX versions and the year of release

AIX 1 – 1986
AIX 2 – 1987
AIX 3 – 1989
AIX 3.1 – 1990
AIX 3.2.5 – 1990
AIX 4.0 – 1993
AIX 4.1 – 1994
AIX 4.1.1 – 1994
AIX 4.1.2 – 1994
AIX 4.1.3 – 1995
AIX 4.1.4 – 1995
AIX 4.1.5 – 1996
AIX 4.2 – 1996
AIX 4.2.5 – 1994
AIX 4.3 – 1997
AIX 4.3.1 – 1998
AIX 4.3.2 – 1998
AIX 4.3.3 – 1999
AIX 5L – 2000
AIX 5L 5.1 – 2001
AIX 5L 5.2 – 2002
AIX 5L 5.3 – 2004
AIX 6 open beta – 2007
AIX 6.1 – 2007
AIX 7 – To be released by 2010