AIX Tip of the Week

Subject: AIX5.3 Best Practices Wiki

Audience: All

Date: October 6, 2007

Steve Pittman has posted his AIX 5.3 "best practices" on the following wiki's.

AIX Wiki home: http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/Home
System Admin Best Practices1 - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/AIXV53AdminBestPractice
System Admin Best Practices2 - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/AIXV53AdminBPFiles
Installation Best Practices - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/Installation
Software Maintenance Best Practices - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/AIXV53Maint
SAN boot considerations - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/AIXV53SANBoot
Backup and Restore - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/AIXV53Backup
Hardware Management Console - http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/virtualization/HMC_bk

In addition to Steve's best practices, I recommend having a Service Level Agreement to define the business need. Let the business need drive your "best practices".


Bruce Spencer,
baspence@us.ibm.com

October 6, 2007