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Classroom ILT
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Learning Path
Virtual
Duration
1 Day

TYPE
Virtual
Classroom ILT
LEARNING PATH
SKILL LEVEL

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Introduction:
This five-day instructor-led course introduces students to performance tuning principles, monitoring utilities and tuning tools for the Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System (Oracle Solaris 10 OS). The course includes a review of Solaris subsystems and the utilities provided to monitor system efficiency including kstat, sar, vmstat, iostat, netstat, mpstat, nfsstat, ps, prstat, pmap, the proc tools, truss, dtrace, the DTrace Toolkit, cpustat, cputrack, swap, lockstat, and mdb. This revision also includes a section on resource management using zones and pools, as well as content related to Solaris Studio tools. The course format is divided into three major sections: tools, OS theory, and strategy and actions.
Audience profile:
This course is intended for:
- System Administrators
Pre-requisites:
Before attending this course, students must be able to:
- Manage pseudo and distributed file systems
- Employ advanced systems administration skills in a networked Oracle Solaris 10 OS server environment
- Create and manage logical volumes
- Configure a network adapter and use ndd to modify its settings
- Describe fundamentals of TCP operations Oracle requires and recommends that delegates have attended the following course prior to attending Oracle Database Program with PL/SQL.
- Required Course: D68148GC30 System Administration for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS Part 1
- Required Course: D68152GC30 System Administration for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS Part 2
Course objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify ways to measure or load subsystems
- Configure resource management with zones and pools
- Use system monitoring tools including DTrace
- Determine the cause of system performance issues
- Use system configuration tools
Lesson 1: Course Introduction
This lesson explains the general goals and agenda of the course. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 2: Introducing Performance Management
This lesson describes the principals, processes and analysis strategy involved in performance management on the Oracle Solaris 10 OS. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 3: kstat Monitoring Tools
This lesson describes the use of kstat tools in the identification of performance problems. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 4: procfs Monitoring Tools
This lesson describes the use of the procfs monitoring tools. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 5: DTrace
This lesson describes the architecture, advantages and usage of DTrace commands. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 6: Other Significant Tools
This lesson describes the use of tools associated with the CPU and cache memory. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 7: Processes and Threads
This lesson describes the nature and tuning capabilities of processes and threads. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 8: Memory
This lesson describes the memory components of the Oracle Solaris OS. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 9: System Caches and Buses
This lesson describes the nature, usage and configuration of system caches and buses. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 10: Managing CPU Scheduling
This lesson describes how to control and monitor CPUs through the use of processor sets. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 11: Disk I/O and File Systems
This lesson describes the nature and implementation of the UFS and ZFS file systems. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 12: Monitoring Network Performance
This lesson describes the nature, configuration and monitoring of network utilisation. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 13: Applying the Performance Analysis Approach
This lesson describes the steps for maintaining and monitoring system performance. Lesson Topics: |
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Lesson 14: Performance Testing
This lesson describes the different aspects of planning and conducting performance testing. Lesson Topics: |
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Associated certifications and exam:
On successful completion of this course students will receive an Oracle University attendance certificate.

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