Students who can benefit from this course are experienced system administrators and service support personnel.

• Administer the Solaris 10 Operating System
• have a general understanding of Operating Systems

• Use DTrace to find the source of intermittent problems
• Use DTrace to look at the cause of performance problems
• Use DTrace to troubleshoot application problems
• Identify system problems with DTrace
• Troubleshoot DTrace script problems

Module 1 - DTrace Fundamentals

• Describe the features of DTrace
• Describe the DTrace architecture
• Overview of how DTrace works

Module 2 - Using DTrace

• Examining performance problems using DTrace
• Use DTrace to obtain information about system calls
• Create D scripts

Module 3 - Finding System Problems with DTrace

• Use DTrace to access kernel variables
• Use DTrace to obtain information about I/O
• Use DTrace to do anonymous tracing
• Use DTrace to do speculative tracing
• Explain privileges necessary to run Dtrace

Module 4 - Troubleshooting DTrace Problems

• Describe how to lessen performance impact of DTrace
• Describe how to use and tune DTrace buffers
• Debug DTrace scripts

Module 5 - The DTrace Toolkit and Case Studies

• Overview of the DTrace Toolkit
• Top 10 most useful scripts
• Case Study - Application using excessive CPU time
• Case Study - Application Throughput is Slow