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Course Code:	UN 110
Course Abstract:	The RHEL Systems Administration: Performance Management course introduces participants to performance management principles, monitoring utilities / tools, and analysis for the RHEL Operating Environment. The course includes a review of RHEL 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. Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Version 5 Update 1, Version 5 Update 2
Audience:	This course is designed for individuals who are systems administrators.
Duration:	3 days
Learning Outcomes:	Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to: > Describe performance management fundamentals > Use RHEL supplied and third-party tools to analyze performance > Write tools in various languages > View and set kernel-based tuning parameters > Monitor and report on process and thread activity > Modify CPU scheduling and virtual memory operations
Course Topics:	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 RHEL Monitoring Capabilities Monitoring tools provided with RHEL stat family of programs sar / sadc top gnome-system-monitor sysctl Data collection tools sysstat /proc hierarchy files 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 Adjusting CPU scheduling mechanisms 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 Caching Tuning the Paged Buffer Cache Size Monitoring tools File system performance statistics ext3 parameters to improve efficiency Alternative write strategies to UFS buffering LVM performance optimizing volume group parameters optimizing logical volume parameters Monitoring Tools Network Management TCP/IP Layers Socket controls Controlling network services NFS server optimizations Setting network buffer values Monitoring tools Summaries Memory management CPU management I/O management Network management User program management
Prerequisites:	It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the RHEL Systems Administration course, or has equivalent system time as a user, and is comfortable with basic systems administration functions.

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