Course Catalog

Troubleshooting in the Open Systems Environment

Topics

• Introduction to NT and UNIX
• Replicate the problem
• Get complete account of the occurrence
• Determine overall health of the system
• Windows NT
• Windows NT environment
• Windows NT setup procedure
• Configuration
• Configuring the SCSI host adapter driver
• Configuring the SCSI controller adapter bio
• Adapter driver installation
• Create revover disk
• Using Windows NT disk administrator
• Partitioning SCSI disks
• Extended Partitions
• Creating a Volume set
• Creating a stripe set without parity
• Creating a stripe set with parity
• Creating a host-based mirror set
• Deleting partitions, volumes, or logical drives
• Adding devices on-line
• Create revover disk
• Recovering volume/raid sets after a new installation
• Using Administrative Tools
• Evernt Viewer/System Logs
• Clearing the System Logs
• The Performance Monitor
• The Windows NT Diagnostics Tool
• Troubleshooting the boot process
• The boot process
• Creating and Using a fault-tolerant boot disk
• Last known good configuration
• Troubleshooting system configuration and the registry
• Virtural Memory
• Troubleshooting devices and adapters
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
• Registry entries
• Resource Kit
• SOLARIS
• Operating system features in the Sun/Solaris environment
• useful Solaris utilities and functions
• Hardware mapping (troubleshooting)
• Probing for SCSI devices
• Incorporating disk arrays
• To recognize LUNs
• Sun parameter setting when attached to the IBM ESS (/etc/system modification)
• Format, Partition, Label
• Disk preparation procedure
• Format Menu
• Disk notes
• Miscellaneous information
• Sample /etc/format.dat
• Disk partitioning
• Partion Menu
• Partition ID tags
• Partition permission flags
• Calculating Partition sizes
• Assigning partition information
• New hard drives
• Adding devices online
• Problems with SCSI disks/RAIDs under Solaris 2.x
• Currupted /etc/system, now I can't boot
• The /etc/path_to_inst file is corrupted, I can't boot
• Installing Solaris on a large disk
• System and error messages
• HP/UX
• Useful HP-UX utilities and functions
• LVM Terminology
• Configuring Logical Volumes
• Creating Physical Volumes
• Creating volume groups and logical volumes
• Creating the mount directory
• Creating a New filesystem
• Mount the directory
• Using SAM
• Channel Failover (HP-UX 10.x only)
• Setting Up alternate links
• Logical volume information
• Adding devices online
• Backing up and restoring LVM group configuration
• AIX

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