Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning (442)

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

• RHCE certification or equivalent experience.
• Students without an RHCE certification are encouraged to check their experience levels by taking a free pre-assessment test at redhat.com/explore/pre-assessment.

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.

• 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
• Essential network tuning