High Availability for AIX Technical Support and Administration

The IBM Certified System Expert - High Availability for AIX - Technical Support and Administration is a highly experienced person, with at least two (2) years experience in the following areas:

Maintaining and administering HA implementations
Evaluating the applicability of PowerHA in the environment
Determining the requirements for a PowerHA implementation including hardware and software design elements, and configuration modes
Planning an installation, including elimination of single points of failure
Installing and configuring PowerHA on a system or cluster of systems
Performing daily administration, cluster status monitoring, problem determination, log analysis, and recovery

Additionally, the IBM Certified System Expert - High Availability for AIX - Technical Support and Administration has extensive AIX and TCP/IP experience, some experience with storage requirements, and works with virtualized components in the PowerHA environment (where applicable).

What must the IBM Certified System Expert - High Availability for AIX - Technical Support and Administration know or be able to do without assistance or supervision?

Plan and install and configure a basic PowerHA cluster.
Test and verify cluster validity.
Add/remove cluster components during cluster operation.
Monitor for and detect cluster failures and perform simple failovers.
Create and administer resource groups. Use C-SPOC to manage cluster objects
Backup, restore and upgrade the cluster and apply cluster fixes.
Understand cluster topology configuration and IPAT implementation
Awareness of cluster security considerations.

What must the IBM Certified System Expert - High Availability for AIX - Technical Support and Administration be able to do with minimal assistance/supervision?

Analyze logs. Evaluate PowerHA applicability in the environment.
Plan, install and configure advanced clusters (including application monitors).
Detect and correct cluster synchronization problems.
Understand requirements for cross-site, LVM, and XD.
Configure dependencies within the cluster.
Understand PowerHA interaction with RSC

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