Opleiding: Red Hat Enterprise performance tuning [RH442]

OVERVIEW

Red Hat® Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning (RH442) is designed to teach senior Linux® system administrators the methodology of performance tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This course discusses system architecture with an emphasis on understanding the implications of system architecture on system performance, methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments, open source benchmarking utilities, methods for analyzing system and networking performance, and tuning configurations for specific application loads.

A Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE®) who successfully completes this course is prepared to take the Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning Expertise Exam (EX442). Exam sold separately.

OBJECTIVES

Introduction to performance tuning

Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis.

Gain proficiency in using basic analysis tools and in evaluating data.

Learn basic tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the system.

Understand and analyze hardware.

Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications.

Learn about basic storage tuning using an email server as an example.

Understand memory management and tuning.

Understand tuning for CPU-bound applications.

AUDIENCE

Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning

An RHCE interested in earning a Red Hat Certification of Expertise, or a Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist (RHCDS) or Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) credential

CERTIFICATION

CONTENT

• Elements of monitoring and tuning
• Simple network monitoring (SNMP)
• Graphical reporting
• Kernel-level profiling
• Queuing theory
• Compensating for physical disk characteristics
• Reducing disk visit count
• Processes and the scheduler
• Kernel timing and process latency
• Memory addressing and allocation
• Memory caches
• Memory reclamation