Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning

(Start)Datum	Locatie	Inschrijven
13 August 2012	Nieuwegein
27 August 2012	Amsterdam
01 October 2012	Nieuwegein

Description:

RH442 Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning is an advanced 4-day hands-on lab course covering system architecture, performance characteristics, monitoring, benchmarking, and network performance tuning.

Target Audience:

RH442 is aimed at senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals working in enterprise environments and mission-critical systems.

Duration:

4 days

Pre-Requisites:

Participants in RH442 should already be familiar with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Recommended minimum competency level is completion of the RHCE or equivalent knowledge.

Objectives:

• Basics: Principles and Terminology
  • What is performance tuning?
  • Steps in the tuning process
  • Quantifying performance
• Tools for Obtaining Information
  • The sysfs and proc filesystems and the sysctl utility
  • System process queues
  • The system activity reporter
  • Passing parameters to kernel modules
  • Generating reports using standard utilties
  • Benchmarking
  • Monitoring systems with SNMP and MRTG
• Monitoring the Kernel
  • Kernel profiling and OProfile
  • Monitoring the kernel with SystemTap
• Hardware Performance Considerations
  • Memory: levels, types
  • Cache
  • Disk and I/O
• The CPU: Processes and Scheduling
  • Controlling processor speed
  • How the Linux kernel schedules processes
  • Process priority
  • Obtaining processor performance information
• Memory
  • How Processes and the kernel utilize memory
  • System tunables that affect memory performance
  • How page and buffer caches work
  • Monitoring and controlling memory usage
  • The virtual memory subsystem
• The I/O Subsystem and Filesystems
  • Tuning the disk I/O subsystem
  • I/O scheduling
  • The virtual file system
  • File system tunable parameters
  • Layout of the ext2 and ext3 filesystems
  • Journaling
• Network Performance
  • Factors affecting performance
  • Viewing device information
  • Ethernet channel bonding
  • Network sockets
  • Layers of the OSI model
  • TCP tuning
• Application Tuning
  • Causes of performance problems
  • Application tuning
  • Viewing application behaviors using standard tools
  • NFS
  • Apache
  • Samba

Note:

The training will be delivered in Dutch or English language. For more information you can contact us by email training@ictivity.nl or by phone +31 88 428 48 48

Exam:

- EX442: Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning Expertise Exam

This is the last module for the RHCA exam.