Senior system administrators and others concerned with monitoring effective performance of Solaris systems can benefit from this course. Students who want to learn the performance tools provided with Solaris 10 can also benefit from this course.

• Install and configure the Solaris OS
• Employ advanced systems administration skills in a networked Solaris OSserver environment
• Manage pseudo and distributed file systems
• Create and manage logical volumes
• Describe fundamentals of TCP operations

• Describe performance management fundamentals
• Use the Solaris OS tools to analyze performance
• View and set kernel-based tuning parameters
• Monitor and report on process and thread activity
• Modify CPU scheduling and virtual memory operations
• Describe system caches and system buses
• Tune I/O, ZFS and UFS File System, and network subsystems

Module 1 - Introducing Performance Management

• Describe the principles of performance tuning
• Describe the performance tuning process
• Understand the terms used to describe performance aspects
• Describe the Drill-Down Analysis Strategy
• Describe the Performance Analysis Approach
• Understand the Solaris Observability Tools
• List the kstat based utilities
• List the procfs based utilities
• List DTrace based utilities

Module 2 - DTrace

• List the Advantages of DTrace
• Describe the DTrace Architecture
• List the Four Parts of a Probe Description
• Define a Probe Clause
• Write and Execute DTrace ?one-liner? Commands
• Write some Simple Dtrace Scripts
• Download and Use Scripts from the DTrace Toolkit

Module 3 - Using the Solaris OS Monitoring Tools

• Describe and use monitoring tools provided with the Solaris OS
• Describe and use kstat-based utilities
• Understand system-wide monitoring

Module 4 - Using the Solaris OS Process Monitoring Tools

• Describe and use process monitoring tools provided with the Solaris OS
• Describe and use prstat and DTrace utilities
• Understand process monitoring

Module 5 - Monitoring Processes and Threads

• Describe the lifetime of a process
• Describe states of a process
• Describe threads
• Compare the performance of single-threaded and multithreadedprocesses
• Monitor processes
• Describe and use lockstat(1M)

Module 6 - Managing CPU Scheduling

• Describe scheduling
• Display and change scheduler parameters
• Change the scheduling behavior of a process
• Describe and use Solaris Resource Manager projects and the Fair Share Scheduler (FSS)

Module 7 - Performing Memory Tuning

• Monitor memory utilization
• Describe virtual memory
• Cache disk-based files
• Identify cyclic page cache
• Describe swapping

Module 8 - Managing CPU Hardware

• Describe L1/L2
• Describe the cpustat utility

Module 9 - Tuning File Systems and Disk I/O

• Understand file system performance statistics
• Describe OS services that affect ZFS performance
• Describe application behavior that affects ZFS performance
• Describe OS services that affect UFS performance
• Describe application behavior that affects UFS performance

Module 10 - Monitoring Network Performance

• Describe TCP and UDP
• Describe ICMP
• Describe the performance of network hardware

Module 11 - Applying the Performance Analysis Approach

• Describe steps for maintaining system performance
• Set up system accounting
• Describe common utilities for measuring system performance and identifying problem applications
• Describe specific types of bottlenecks and methods for reducing them
• Describe a basic method for tuning system performance

Module 12 - Performance Testing

• Plan to conduct performance testing
• Understand common pitfalls