Self-Paced Maintenance for the Personal IRIS (T4-IM2)
This Self-Paced System Maintenance for the
Personal IRIS course teaches field engineers and
service personnel how to perform maintenance on a
Personal IRIS Workstation. Through a combination of
video-taped lecture, demonstrations and labs, students
learn to install, configure, troubleshoot, and verify the
proper operation of the IRIS workstation. Malfunctions are
simulated so the student is encouraged to review the entire
documentation provided.
Topics Covered
- Hardware Overview
- Theory of System Operation
- Basic System Operation
- Supporting System Documentation
- Crash Recovery and Disk Rebuilding
- Hardware Troubleshooting
- System Diagnostics
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to...
- Meet the requirements for certification of Basic Support
- Isolate failures to a single Field Replaceable Unit (FRU)
- Given a list of Personal IRIS workstation manuals, correctly name and explain the use and contents of each manual
- Demonstrate that he/she has developed basic skills that will allow him/her to gather required status information, monitor system activity, create system backup tapes, rebuild/restore system disk drives, edit system files, and run high level system diagnostics and demo programs
Prerequisites
This course is intended for...
- Field or service engineers who are responsible for remedial or preventive maintenance on Personal IRIS workstations
- Students that have experience with UNIX or IRIX operations that traverse the filesystem, create, modify and remove files, and edit text (vi text editor preferred)
And have attended...
Note: The student is over-qualified if he/she is already
servicing the POWER or Professional Series workstations.
Course Details
Packet Includes
- Video (specify PAL or NTSC format)
- Student Workbook
- The Guide to Field Maintenance
Format: Self-Study
Platforms Covered: 4D20, 4D25, and
4D35 Upgrade supplement available upon request of your order
Note: For Personal IRIS workstation customers,
this course fulfills the training requirements necessary
for the Basic Support Program
This course assumes that the
student has a Personal IRIS workstation and a VCR (PAL or NTSC format)
Rights to reproduce available upon
request
Please call the Education Hotline for more
information at 1-800-800-4SGI.
