The IRIX System Administration II course is an important continuation of the IRIX System Administration I course. While continuing to add topics in basic system administration, this course also goes into more detail about such topics as system monitoring, process (job) management, disk management (such as initializing a disk and performing mirroring and striping), and system software installation capabilities.

One particularly significant component of this course is a system troubleshooting lab, where students are asked to diagnose and resolve bugs that have been "planted" on one or more workstations. Together with the IRIX System Administration I course, this course completes the foundation for basic system administration.

Topics Covered

• Troubleshooting guidelines and system log management
• Embedded Support Partner (ESP)
• Job management (cron, checkpoint/restart)
• Disk management
• Disk mirroring and striping
• Networking overview
• Introduction to NFS administration
• Advanced software installation
• Basic system security
• General system troubleshooting (lab)

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Perform system log monitoring and management
• Use the Embedded Support Partner (ESP) tool to view system availability
• Manage cron jobs
• Checkpoint, monitor, and restart a job
• Perform disk management functions such as creating a disk label, exercising the disk, examining bad blocks, and cloning a disk
• Perform disk mirroring (plexing) and disk striping on a logical disk volume
• Explain the function of standard networking products such as DNS, NIS, and NFS
• Configure a system to share filesystems and directories using NFS
• Perform software installation capabilities such as setting inst preferences, opening multiple distributions, performing a miniroot installation, and using RoboInst to install software concurrently on multiple machines
• Explain how software licensing using FLEXlm is performed
• Identify important aspects of system security
• Troubleshoot system problems that have been "planted" on your system

• IRIX System Administration I course or six months experience administering an SGI system running the IRIX operating system
• Familiarity with system administration on other open system platforms
• Proficiency with an editor such as vi

• Somewhat experienced IRIX system administrators
• Experienced UNIX system administrators

Instructor-Led (Lecture/Lab)

Class Hours

Course hours vary depending on the training center you select. The course dates and times will be included in the confirmation notice you receive from SGI after you register. Typically, classes start at 9:00 a.m.