Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are 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.:
Skills Gained
N/A
Course Content
Module 1 - Architecture
- Overview of system components and architecture related to system performance
- Performance characteristics of current standard PC hardware
- Translating manufacturers' hardwarespecifications into useful information
Module 2 - Monitoring
- Using standard monitoring tools effectively
- Gathering and analyzing trend information
Module 3 - SNMP
- Basics of SNMP
- Using SNMP to gather performance related data
- Graphing SNMP based information with MRTG
Module 4 - Benchmarking
- Using open source benchmarking utilities
Module 5 - Tuning
- Using /proc to tune operating system characteristics
- Network performance tuning
- Application performance tuning considerations
- Tuning for specific configurations