DURATION
5 days
Course Description
This course provides students with the skills to measure, analyze, and tune AIX subsystems on IBM RISC System/6000 hardware for optimum performance. The course is intended for anyone responsible for managing the performance of AIX and the performance of applications running under AIX.
Performance management concepts and techniques and the use of standard AIX tools (sar, iostat, vmstat, trace...) are covered in this course. Also included is the use of advanced AIX performance tools (tprof, svmon, filemon....). .
Extensive hands-on lab exercises reinforce each lecture and give the students practical experience applicable to their performance management requirements.
OBJECTIVES
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Distinguish between system and application performance constraints
Describe the performance implications of each subsystem by understanding, in general terms, how the subsystem works
Identify and eliminate (or minimize) various software and hardware performance constraints using AIX tools and standard UNIX tools
List various sources of information and support for capacity planning, system assurance, and performance tuning
Curriculum Relationship
This course should follow AIX System Administration I & II. A minimum of six months' experience in the AIX environment is recommended before taking this
Who Can Benefit
This course is intended for System Administrators, Systems Engineers and System Support personnel.
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should be able to:
Manage AIX physical and logical storage
Do basic performance analysis to identify where problems are in the system, and be able to suggest basic alternative strategies
Utilize additional subsystems including cron to schedule system tasks, and accounting to analyze system activity
Pull together many of the topics learned in previous courses to start addressing real-life system administrator issues
This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.