AUDIENCE:   This course is for experienced support staff or users who have hands-on experience with a UNIX-based system, or who have used another type of system and have attended suitable pre-training. PREREQUISITES:   The participant should have a good basic understanding of UNIX, preferably gained through our UNIX: The Essentials course, and ideally some practical experience in the workplace. DURATION:   4 days. Hands on. OBJECTIVES:   The course is highly interactive and consists of theory with plenty of hands on practical content. It will provide attendees with the self-sufficiency and confidence to manage and provide first line support of an IRIX based system. It will enable delegates to cope satisfactorily with the day to day running of a multi-user IRIX site and provide support to users and other administration functions (e.g. DBA.) This course will also provide a firm base on which more advanced system administration techniques can be based. This course will also provide a firm base on which more advanced system administration techniques can be based. COURSE CONTENT:   UNIX Review Administration Interfaces Configuring the System User & Group Management Peripheral Management Backups & Security Processes and Scheduling System Startup & Shutdown IRIX (Prom) Level UNIX Level Disk Management Partitioning File System Creation Logical Volumes Creating & Maintaining XLVs System Maintenance Software Maintenance Booting from Miniroot