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07-21-2008 #1

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IBM-AIX Technical Help

Hi All ,

Motto : I am in need of IBM-AIX

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS.

I am working as an a operator, on solaris

5.10 env. i have got an opportunity of
IBM-AIX Administrator Job. I really don't
want to miss this opportunity.

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By the way i have basic knowledge of
Solaris UNIX, I have c onfident i will c lear
1st level of interview which will be
interviewed by HR. But next round i will
be facing to IBM-AIX Administrator and
definately he will be bowling with
technic al question of which i am not
aware . Therefore i need help of you
guys as i dont know what kind of question he would ask me on AIX.

Everyone's help would be appreciated. If possible please advise me with some common
question whic h are asked by AIX-Admins, It would be great help .

Thanks & Regards,

Imran

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07-22-2008 #2

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Depends on if you told you have AIX knowledge or not and are willing to get it.
So if they know you didn't work with AIX and they are no morons, they would ask you
somewhat generic questions, I guess.

Maybe read up about ODM, LVM and smit, whic h might be the most signific ant differenc es
though I have never touched a Solaris box yet.

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Thanks ...

Thanks for advice...but i have never worked on AIX, and c urrently working as Unix
Operator since 3 yrs.
I looking forward for UNix Admin job. Please let me know some generic question for solaris.
And please do let me know what role does Unix admin play and what are his primary
Duties?
Everyones help is apprec iated....

Thanks,
Imran

07-23-2008 #4

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Depends on where you work I guess.

Usually you have to care for the systems, check that no filesystem is getting full (df),
check local mails (mail) sometimes, do shell scripting to make your day easier ie. write
sc ripts that do checks on stuff like that mentioned chec king for free filesystems.
You will also add/modify/delete users, groups, filesystems, directories and files etc ., alter
permissions etc., configure hardware and so on.

I wrote a categorized list for AIX/Linux commands for our apprentic es - maybe it helps a
bit to look up which commands might be interessting.

C ode:
LINUX AIX
===================================================
Text:
cat "
more "
pg "
cut "
sort "
grep "
head "
tail "
join "
paste "
split "
csplit "
*awk "
*sed "

Files:
ls "
cd "
cp "
mv "
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find "
tr "
df "
du "
cpio "
file "
diff "
which "
whatis "
tar "
gzip "
bzip2 "
compress "

Processes:
ps "
kill "
nice "
renice "
nohup "
& "
ctrl+z "
fg "
bg "

Administrative stuff:
su "
passwd "
chown "
chmod "
last "
who (am i) "
whoami "
useradd mkuser (better use smit)
groupadd mkgroup (better use smit)
id "
at "
crontab "
mount "
- oslevel
uname "
ulimit "
free bootinfo -r
host "
ifconfig "
netstat "
ipcs "
ipcrm "
mail "
dmesg alog -f /var/adm/ras/bootlog -o
/var/log/messages errpt
- lsattr
- chdev
lsmod -
modprobe -
insmod -

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Printers:
lpstat lpstat
lp lp; enq

Performance/Monitoring:
vmstat "
sar "
iostat "
top; ntop topas; monitor; nmon
ethereal (has to be compiled maybe)
tcpdump "
- filemon
- svmon

LVM:
pvdisplay lspv
vgdisplay lsvg
lvdisplay lslv
- lsfs
pvcreate "
vgcreate mkvg
lvcreate mklv

Paket management:
rpm installp
rpm -qa lslpp
dpkg -
apt-cache -
apt-get -
- instfix

Shell:
env "
set "
if; fi "
else "
elif "
case; esac "
while; do; done "
for; do; done "
let "
(()) "
eval "

Miscellaneous:
ftp "
rsh "
rcp "
ssh "
scp "
rsync "
wget -
yast smit(ty)

It would be redic ulous to demand that you know many or the half of them as an operator,
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I think. But maybe you can surprise them

Oh, the list is a bit messed up sorry - I try to fix that. Basic ally it has 2 c olumns and at
the end "yast" is espec ially for SuSE Linux.
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07-23-2008 #5

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Thanks :)

Dear Zaxxon ,

Thanks for putting your efforts unknow person like me. But thanks again.
You have made my job very much easier i dont know what way i should thank you.
You have mentioned one thing that is 100% right i should not reveal what i am? but again i
thought i should be true on this forum then and then only pals like will help me.....thanks
again.....
But zax currently i have applied for solaris admin job within 10days please let me know if
you have some tec hnic al questions like what happens when system c rash what admin has
to do ?

Thanks, Imran

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You want to be asked Solaris questions? In the beginning you said you applied for an AIX
admin job
For Solaris I can't ask you anything, but there is a Solaris subforum too. I doubt that many
Solaris people look into the AIX subforum.

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To be honest i am always having mixed feelings when i read a thread like this:
threadstarter wants to get a better job - so far so ok with me - but seeks help to appear

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someone else than he really is.

Save for the fac t that i have a moral problem with deceit, i have been two times been in a
position where i had to work with people who where suc cessful in what threadstarter is
attempting. Both oc casions are not part the memories i am partic ularly fond of. Having to
explain to a supposed fellow senior SysAdmin how to add a line in vi is nothing you want to
do if the task is "set up a new NIM server". You instantly know that you are c ompletely on
your own. Call me vindictive, i let the management know in no unclear terms about this
colleagues c ompetences.

Having said this, here is my advice to NycUnxer:

- don't try to look better in the interview than you really are. Even if you are succ essful
and get away with it it will, more sooner than later, c ome out anyways. Do you really want
to explain that to your c olleagues? Do you want your new c olleagues share your part of
the load because you are not qualified to do it yourself? You are, what you are and if they
don't like it - their bad.

There will be jobs where you will be ac cepted as a newcomer and this will be taken into
consideration when handing out the tasks. You c an gain experience there and an then
move to a better job when you have the c redentials to fill it.

- Unix is, for one part, things you can learn: commands, fac ilities, structures, ... Unix is,
for an even greater part, experience: you have to have worked with the tools over a
longer time to really appreciate them and understand their inner harmony to the full.
Experience is something you cannot emulate - even less so than knowledge. Real-Life-
problems are not simple tasks like in textbooks. RL-problems are complex, interdependent
tasks where every dec ision affects a lot of - sometimes only remotely connected - other
things. Being aware of these interdependencies is part of this experienc e. You don't get
this out of any book, you have to be exposed to the jobs tasks to build it.

You have to have attempted to write a 2000-line-shellscript and you have to have failed
miserably in the last part of it to apprec iate things like encapsulation, variable declaration,
strict typing, naming conventions, etc . In a textbook you might find all these things
explained along with a 5-line-example. On this the procedure looks usually superfic ial and
finic al. You will now "know" something, but you will not "feel" it. Again, write some 100k+-
sc ripts and you will get the feeling pretty fast. This is experienc e.

Bottom line: if you are looking for some test questions like

Q: how to inc rease a filesystem?

A: use the "c hfs -a size=+ ..." command

then you are wrong already. Not, because the answer is wrong, but because the question
is wrong.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

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