Course Description
RH442 is an advanced four-day hands-on lab course covering system architecture, performance characteristics, monitoring, benchmarking, and network performance tuning.
Prerequisites
RHCT at a minimum, RHCE certification recommended, or comparable skills and knowledge. All prospective course participants without RHCE certification are encouraged to verify skills with CentOS's free online pre-assessment tests.
Goal
RH442 is designed to teach the methodology of performance tuning and capacity planning for Community Enterprise Linux. This class will cover:
- A discussion of system architecture with an emphasis on understanding the implications of system architecture on system performance
- Methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments (benchmarking)
- Open source benchmarking utilities
- Methods for analyzing system performance and networking performance
- Tuning configurations for specific application loads
Audience
RH442 is aimed at senior Community Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals working in enterprise environments and mission-critical systems.
Course Objectives
- Overview of system components and architecture as they relate to system performance
- Translating manufacturers' hardware specifications into useful information
- Using standard monitoring tools effectively to gather and analyze trend information
- Gathering performance-related data with SNMP
- Using open source benchmarking utilities
- Network performance tuning
- Application performance tuning considerations
- Tuning for specific configurations
Follow-on Courses
RHS333 Enterprise Security: Securing Network Services
RH401 Community Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management
RH423 Community Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication
RH436 Community Enterprise Storage Mgmt.