The AIX Survival Guide [Paperback]

A. Siegert (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201593882 | ISBN-13: 978-0201593884 | Publication Date: November 22, 1996 | Edition: 1

The AIX Survival Guide provides a comprehensive and easily accessible source of information on AIX, covering the planning of the installation, setting up the environment of the machine,hooking the system to a network, security issues, customising AIX windows, troubleshooting, tuning and more. Features *provides numerous practical details and hints, with pointers to potential problems and pitfall *how to set up and maintain systems running AI *assumes a basic knowledge of UNI *applies to AIX versions 3.2.5 and 4.1 on the RISC System/6000

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This book provides a comprehensive and easily accessible source of information on AIX, covering the planning of the installation, setting up the environment of the machine, hooking the system to a network, security issues, customizing AIX windows, troubleshooting, tuning, and more. This book assumes a basic knowledge of UNIX and applies to AIX versions 3.2.5 and 4.1 on the RISC System/6000.

Features

• provides numerous practical details and hints, with pointers to potential problems and pitfalls
• how to set up and maintain systems running AIX
• assumes a basic knowledge of UNIX
• applies to AIX versions 3.2.5 and 4.1 on the RISC System/6000

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About the Author

About Andreas Siegert

Andreas Siegert has worked with AIX at IBM'S Competence Centre in Munich, Germany, since 1989, dealing with low-level AIX system management and networking as well as graphical user interfaces. He established IBM Germany's first Internet gateway in 1991, and in 1994 he became a member of the EMEA AIX Security Centre of Competence focusing on Internet Security. He has written numerous articles and participated in the writing of several redbooks.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 488 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (November 22, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201593882
• ISBN-13: 978-0201593884
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #339,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #4 in Books > Computers & Technology > Operating Systems > Unix > AIX

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Survival Indeed!, December 9, 1999

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Scott D. Mccrory (Westerville, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The AIX Survival Guide (Paperback)

Having lots of experience with NT and NetWare wasn't going to help me with my additional duties - to be sysadmin of two CRITICAL servers running AIX 4.2. I badly needed a book to help be more than a quick reference, yet less than a full set of manuals or arcane IBM tombe. This book TOTALLY is it. It's right to the point, addressing the boot process, backups, security, periodic maintenance, emergency recovery procs and more. If you're in the same boat, buy this book before any other!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book, January 23, 2000

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Guzzista (Baltimore, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The AIX Survival Guide (Paperback)

This book is packed with lots of useful information. It is targeted for a UNIX sysadmin who is switching to AIX. If you are new to the UNIX this book will not be a good place to start. However the language is clear and if you do not know something you can usually figure what to look for in a general UNIX book to get a necessary background.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for UNIX Beginners, October 20, 2000

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Arthur D. Castelli Jr. "art25" (Sorrento, fl USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The AIX Survival Guide (Paperback)

If you have limited experience on UNIX and end up in a job where you have to learn AIX admin, then this is the correct book. If you have indepth UNIX experience with HP-UX or NCR, etc, then you will outgrow this book in about 15 minutes. There are many tasks that need to be done that are not available in smit (smitty). This book won't cover them.