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.

Course Outline

1. Basics: Principles and Terminology

• What is performance tuning?
• Steps in the tuning process
• Quantifying performance
   

2. 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
   

3. Monitoring the Kernel

• Kernel profiling and OProfile
• Monitoring the kernel with SystemTap
   

4. Hardware Performance Considerations

• Memory: levels, types
• Cache
• Disk and I/O
   

5. The CPU: Processes and Scheduling

• Controlling processor speed
• How the Linux kernel schedules processes
• Process priority
• Obtaining processor performance information
   

6. 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
   

7. 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
   

8. Network Performance

• Factors affecting performance
• Viewing device information
• Ethernet channel bonding
• Network sockets
• Layers of the OSI model
• TCP tuning
   

9. Application Tuning

• Causes of performance problems
• Application tuning
• Viewing application behaviors using standard tools
• NFS
• Apache
• Samba

 

Duration: 4 days
Location: Housing CO. d.o.o., Vodovodna 100, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Price: 2.670 EUR + VAT

To enroll or ask for more information please write to trzenje@housing.si. International participants from facebook can get up to 30% discount and free hotel in the center of Ljubljana, if they enroll untill end of January 2010.
 
 

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Jens Kuehnel started his computer carrer at age 7 with a C64.
Since 1999 he is a trainer for Linux and Microsoft. He is certified for trainings from Novell/SuSE, Red Hat and Microsoft.

Areas of Expertise: Samba, LDAP, Fedora Directory Server, Security, Webserver, System internals, Tuning, Troubleshooting, Bash, Python.

Certifications: MCT, MCSE, LPI Level 1+2+3, NCLP 10, NCLE 10, RHCE, RHCX, RHCA, RHCSS

To enroll or get more information please write an email. You can call us on phone number +386 1 568 4040.

International participants from facebook can get up to 30% discount and free hotel in the center of Ljubljana, if they enroll untill end of January 2010.
 

Prerequisites

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

Goal

RH442 is designed to teach the methodology of performance tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This class will cover

• a discussion of system architecture with an emphasis on understanding the implications of system architecture on system performance
• methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments (benchmarking)
• open source benchmarking utilities
• methods for analyzing system performance and networking performance
• tuning configurations for specific application loads.

Audience

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

Volume discounts

If your company needs to train more than one employee at the same time, take advantage of our multi-student discounts.