RH442 - Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning

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.

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.

Duration:

4 days

What you will learn:

  1. Architecture
    • Overview of system components and architecture as they related to system performance.
    • Performance characteristics of current standard PC hardware.
    • Translating manufacturers´ hardware specifications into useful information.
  2. Monitoring
    • Using standard monitoring tools effectively
    • Gathering and analyzing trend information
  3. SNMP
    • Basics of SNMP
    • Using SNMP to gather performance related data
    • Graphing SNMP based information with MRTG
  4. Benchmarking
    • Using open source benchmarking utilities
      • Benchmarking systems as a holistic entity
      • Application/resource specific benchmarking utilities
  5. Tuning
    • Using /proc to tune operating system characteristics
      • Module level tuning
        • modinfo
      • tuning device drivers (NIC´s SCSI, etc.)
    • Network performance tuning
    • Application performance tuning considerations
    • Tuning for specific configurations
      • Evaluating ext3 performance
      • Tuning for SMB/CIFS servers
      • Tuning for compute servers
      • Tuning for file servers
      • Tuning to tune for database servers