IBM OL19G - IBM i System Administration

Course Outline

• Class administration and introductions
• IBM i overview and concepts
• Management central overview
• Security concepts and overview
• System values
• User security
• Resource security
• Security auditing
• Designing security
• IBM i availability overview
• Disk management
• Backup and recovery strategy using Save/Restore
• Journal management
• Commitment control overview
• Backup and recovery planning
• Problem determination
• Overview of Systems Director Navigator for i
• Introduction to BRMS

Objective

• Describe and implement the components of IBM i security, such as user profile, group profile, authorization list, adopted authority and object / resource security
• Develop a security plan for your Power Systems with IBM i
• Describe the options to implement security auditing
• Develop a plan to audit security on your Power Systems with IBM i
• Describe the IBM i availability products and features and choose the option(s) that best fit your company requirements
• Describe how to backup and recover user, IBM and full system data on your Power Systems with IBM i
• Develop a backup and recovery plan for your Power Systems with IBM i
• Describe the system diagnostics and problem determination procedures available on your Power Systems with IBM i

Prerequisites

You should:

• complete System Operator Workshop for IBM i (AS24G)
• have responsibility for implementing the security features available for IBM i
• have responsibility for the implementation of a backup and recovery plan and system availability for your Power Systems with IBM i

Audience

This is an intermediate course intended for IBM i system administrators, data processing managers and other individuals who implement and manage security, backup and recovery, system software and problem determination. This course is not recommended for system operators.