Solaris Training Overview
The Solaris Systems Administration: Performance Management course
introduces participants to performance management principles, monitoring
utilities / tools, and analysis for the Solaris 10 Operating Environment. The
course includes a review of Solaris subsystems, along with the utilities provided
to monitor system efficiency including sar and the *stat family of tools. This revision also presents tools new to Solaris 10, including dtrace and kstat. In each area of discussion, emphasis will be placed on writing tools for monitoring and analysis. These tools will include Korn shell scripts, Perl procedures, and
C language programs.
Systems: Solaris 10 09/10 UPD 9, SPARC or x86/x64 hardware platforms.
Solaris Training Prerequisites
It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the
System Administration for the Solaris 10 OS Part 1 course, or has equivalent
system time as a user, and is comfortable with basic systems
administration functions.
Solaris Training Course duration
This course normally requires three (3) days, approximately 60%
lecture, and 40% lab time.
Solaris Training Course Objectives
On completion of this course, a systems administrator should be able to:
- Describe performance management fundamentals
- Use the Solaris 10 OS and third-party tools to analyze performance
- Write tools in various languages
- Use Solaris 10 performance data extensions (kstat, dtrace)
- View and set kernel-based tuning parameters
- Monitor and report on process and thread activity
- Modify CPU scheduling and virtual memory operations
Solaris Training Course outline
Performance Basics
- Describe the principles of performance analysis
- Describe the performance management process
- Terms used to describe performance aspects
- Factors affecting system performance
- Performance metrics
- Virtual system caching
Solaris 10 Monitoring Capabilities
- Monitoring tools provided with Solaris 10
- *stat family of programs
- sar / sadc
- kstat (command, modules, libraries)
- dtrace (introduction to usage)
- Third party / freely available tools
- SE Toolkit programs
- ManageEngine
- tools from OpenSolaris
- User-written tools methods and rules
- Kernel tunables (viewing, changing)
Memory Management
- Memory layout and distribution
- Memory usage by the kernel
- Process creation
- Process virtual address space
- Buffer Cache (and allocation control)
- Shared Memory / Page Caching
- Paging and Swapping
- Monitoring Tools
CPU Management
- Software priorities concepts
- Impact of the nice parameter
- Priority boosting
- Using dispadmin to adjust CPU mechanisms
- Tuning Java threaded applications
- Process states
- Monitoring tools
I/O Management
- Breakdown of disk I/O
- Measuring Disk and I/O
- UFS performance
- File system structure concepts
- File system caching
- Name Lookup Caching
- Tuning the Paged Buffer Cache Size
- Monitoring tools
- File system performance statistics
- UFS parameters to improve efficiency
- Alternative write strategies to UFS buffering
- ZFS performance
- zpool creation considerations
- ZFS file system parameters
- ZFS compression performance
- Monitoring Tools
Network Management
- TCP/IP Layers
- Socket controls
- Controlling network services
- Setting network buffer values
- Monitoring tools
Summaries
- Memory management
- CPU management
- I/O management
- Network management
- User program management
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