Solaris 10 Systems Administration

		Performance Management (Monitoring,Analysis,Modifications)

				COURSE DESCRIPTION

	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 10/09 UPD 8, SPARC or x86/x64 hardware platforms.

				COURSE OBJECTIVES

	On completion of this course, a systems administrator should be able to:
	•	Describe performance management fundamentals 
	•	Use the Solaris OS and third-party tools to analyze performance
	•	Write tools in various languages
	•	Use Solaris 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 

			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

				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 
						Orca
						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
 

				COURSE DURATION

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


				COURSE PREREQUISITES

    	It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the
    	Solaris 10 Systems Administration course, or has equivalent 
	system time as a user, and is comfortable with basic systems
	administration functions.