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Managing AIX Server Farms

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Abstract

Today's e-business relies heavily on secure, robust, scalable, and cost-effective server management, which is not an easy task to accomplish. The focus of this redbook is to explain practical methodology for administering AIX systems in a server farm environment, providing configuration and usage examples of several AIX operating system functions and free software tools, which include:

- Planning AIX server farms
- Understanding serial connections
- Practical use of serial connections
- Secure network connection on AIX
- Remote monitoring using SNMP
- Packaging your software tools
- Business as usual

This redbook is an ideal desk side reference for IBM employees, Business Partners, and customer system administrators or technical specialists who manage IBM eServer pSeries servers running AIX 5L Version 5.1 in a server farm environment.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Planning AIX server farms
Chapter 2. Understanding serial connections
Chapter 3. Practical use of serial connections
Chapter 4. Secure network connection on AIX
Chapter 5. Remote monitoring using SNMP
Chapter 6. Packaging your software tools
Chapter 7. Day-to-day tasks

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Publish Date
28 June 2002

Last Update
02 July 2002


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ISBN

0738425060

IBM Form Number
SG24-6606-00

Number of pages
378