Linux Training :Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Administration (System Monitoring Performance Management)

TThe Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Administration: System Monitoring and Performance Management course introduces participants to performance management principles, monitoring utilities / tools, and analysis for the RHEL5 Operating Environment. The course includes a review of RHEL5 subsystems, along with the utilities provided to monitor system efficiency including sar and the *stat family of tools. 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.

This course is the equivalent to Red Hat course 442.

Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5 (all update levels)

Linux Training Prerequisites

It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the Red Hat Linux Essentials (RH 033) and RHEL5 Systems Administration Essentials (RH 131) courses, or has equivalent system time as a user and a working systems administrator

Linux Training Course duration

This course normally requires three (3) days, approximately 60% lecture, and 40% lab time.

Linux Training Course Objectives

On completion of this course, a systems administrator should be able to:

Describe performance management fundamentals
Use the RHEL5 and third-party tools to analyze performance
Write tools in various languages
Use RHEL5 performance data extensions
View and set kernel-based tuning parameters
Monitor and report on process and thread activity
Modify CPU scheduling and virtual memory operations
Enable dynamic monitoring via SystemTap in all major areas

Linux 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
- Effects of computer architecture

RHEL5 Monitoring Capabilities

Monitoring tools provided with RHEL5
- *stat family of programs
- sar / sadc
- Third party / freely available tools
  - uptime
  - ManageEngine
- tools from Red Hat
Introduction to SystemTap
Kernel tunables (viewing, changing via sysctl)

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
Adjust CPU scheduling mechanisms
Tuning (Java) threaded applications
Process states
Monitoring tools

I/O Management

Breakdown of disk I/O
Measuring Disk and I/O
ext3 performance
- File system structure concepts
- File system caching
- Name Lookup (meta-data) Caching
- Tuning the cache sizes and algorithms
- (Re-)Defining the I/O scheduler
- File system performance statistics
- ext3 parameters to improve efficiency
- Alternative write strategies to ext3 buffering
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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