Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning

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Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning :: [RH442]

course schedule			who can benefit
prerequisites			skills gained
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code.

RH442

length.

4 days

type.

Instructor-Led

partner.

Red Hat

price.

$2,898

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.

Now updated for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5!

Austin, TX	feb.16.2009 - feb.19.2009	register
Boston, MA	dec.15.2008 - dec.18.2008	register
Boston, MA	apr.6.2009 - apr.9.2009	register
Chicago, IL	dec.1.2008 - dec.4.2008	register
Columbia, MD	nov.3.2008 - nov.6.2008	register
Columbia, MD	mar.2.2009 - mar.5.2009	register
Columbia, MD	jun.29.2009 - jul.2.2009	register
D.C.	oct.27.2008 - oct.30.2008	register
D.C.	jun.15.2009 - jun.18.2009	register
Denver, CO	nov.17.2008 - nov.20.2008	register
Fremont, CA	dec.15.2008 - dec.18.2008	register
Fremont, CA	jun.26.2009 - jun.29.2009	register
Mountain View, CA	feb.9.2009 - feb.12.2009	register
New York	may.8.2009 - may.11.2009	register
Raleigh, NC	feb.2.2009 - feb.5.2009	register
Raleigh, NC	apr.27.2009 - apr.30.2009	register

who can benefit

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

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.

skills gained

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

prepares for:

	EX442 Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning Expertise Exam
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course content details

	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