Course Summary
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 Schedule:
| Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring And Performance Tuning |
| | | Starting Dates | Ending Dates | Location | Enroll | | Sep 15, 08 | Sep 18, 08 | Austin/St.Edwards, TX |  | | Sep 22, 08 | Sep 25, 08 | Dallas/Microtek, TX |  | | Sep 22, 08 | Sep 25, 08 | Denver, CO |  | | Sep 29, 08 | Oct 02, 08 | Red Hat, NYC |  | | Oct 06, 08 | Oct 10, 08 | Minneapolis, MN |  | | Oct 20, 08 | Oct 23, 08 | Mountain View, CA |  | | Oct 27, 08 | Oct 30, 08 | Tysons Corner VA, DC |  | | Nov 03, 08 | Nov 06, 08 | Columbia, MD |  | | Dec 01, 08 | Dec 04, 08 | Chicago/Red Hat, IL |  | | Dec 15, 08 | Dec 18, 08 | Boston, MA |  | | Dec 15, 08 | Dec 18, 08 | Santa Clara, CA |  |
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Located outside our service areas? No problem. We also offer this course in the Live Online format. If you prefer face-to-face interaction, we offer hotel/airfare packages that are extremely inexpensive. Quite often, we bundle the hotel stay into the cost of the class for no extra charge.
RH442 Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning
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. Where possible, emphasis will be placed on using tools that are provided as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network.
Audience:
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.
Price:
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Training Units (TUs):
11 TUs
Duration:
4 days
Training Start Time: 9:00 a.m. Training End Time: 4:30-5:00PM (depending on class progress)
What you will learn:
- Principles of Tuning
- Developing a model for tuning
- Understanding tuning metrics
- Tuning Mechanisms for the Linux kernel
- Using standard utilities to monitor system performance (vmstat,iostat,etc.)
- Using of the sysfs and proc filesystems to obtain information about your system
- Using the sysfs and proc filesystems to alter system behavior
- Generating reports using standard utilties
- Monitoring systems
- Using SNMP to monitor systems
- Using Red Hat Network to monitor systems
- Using the netdump service to monitor system crashes
- Performance characteristics of standard hardware devices
- Factors affecting memory performance
- Factors affecting disk performance
- Process scheduling
- How the Linux kernel schedules processes
- Process priority
- Real time processes
- Memory
- How the Linux kernel utilizes memory
- System tunables that affect memory performance
- How processes utilize memory
- How page and buffer caches work
- Disk I/O
- How the disk I/O subsystem works
- Tuning the disk I/O subsystem
- How I/O scheduling works
- Filesystem performance
- Filesystem layout and performance
- How journaling works
- Network Performance
- Kernel tunables affecting network performance
- Application Tuning Issues
- Problem areas when developing applications
- Measuring algorithm performance
- Viewing application behavior using standard utilities
- Using OProfile to monitor application and system performanceTuning for SMB/CIFS servers
- Service specific tuning recommendations
- Tuning NFS
- Tuning HTTPD
- Tuning Samba
Important Note:
For developers or candidates with a strong programming background in C, we offer RHD236 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernal Internals. The focus of this course is gaining a better overall understanding of how the Linux kernel works. Attendees in this course will examine the actual code that comprises the Linux kernel. This course contains numerous challenging lab exercises that require the ability to both read and write C code.

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