Keep daily operations
under experienced care.

AIX administration and IBM Power platform support for routine operations, planned changes and temporary coverage.

Administration scope

The details that keep
your environment manageable.

Define a single task, a planned change or an ongoing administration agreement.

Plan installations, operating system upgrades and patches. Review Technology Levels, Service Packs, dependencies and recovery considerations.

Configure and administer NIM resources, support network installations and plan LPAR provisioning for the agreed environment.

Assist with virtual I/O, HMC configuration and maintenance, LPAR resources and the administration of PowerVM environments.

Manage filesystems, storage allocation, users and permissions. Investigate operational issues and maintain agreed system documentation.

Support AIX hardening, configuration review and monitoring practices aligned with your organization’s access and change policies.

Plan backup and recovery procedures and develop shell automation for defined administration tasks. Validate changes within the agreed scope.

Working with your team

Administration work starts with a shared understanding of the environment, ownership and change process.

Confirm the operational scopeSystems, tasks, access permissions and responsibilities are defined before work begins.
Agree the change windowTiming, approvals, prerequisites and recovery steps are discussed for planned changes.
Document the workAgree the configuration records, handover notes or task documentation required by your team.

Share your operational priorities and the systems you need help with.