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Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting With DTrace (SA-327-S10)

Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting With DTrace (SA-327-S10)
 
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The Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting with DTrace course provides students with the ability to use DTrace to diagnose application and system problems. This course replaces SA-325-S10.

LAB INFORMATION: The hands-on labs offered in this course may involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.

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NZ-SA-327-S10 3 days NZ$3,920.00 (ex. GST)

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Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are experienced system administrators, service support personnel, kernel developers, and application program developers

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Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to administer the Solaris 10 Operating System, have a general understandaing of the Solaris kernel, and have some programming experience such as Perl or C.

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Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
  • Use DTrace to find the source of intermittent problems.
  • Use DTrace to look at the cause of performance problems.
  • Use DTrace to help debug applications.
  • Find System problems with DTrace
  • Troubleshoot DTrace script problems.

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Course Content

Module 1 - DTrace Fundamentals

  • Describe the features of DTrace
  • Describe the DTrace architecture

Module 2 - Using DTrace

  • Examining performance problems using DTrace
  • Use DTrace to obtain information about system calls
  • Create D Scripts that Use Arguments

Module 3 - Debug Applications with DTrace

  • Use DTrace to profile an application
  • Use DTrace to access application variables
  • Use DTrace to find transient system call errors
  • Use DTrace to determine the names of files being opened

Module 4 - Finding System Problems with DTrace

  • Use DTrace to access kernel variables
  • Use DTrace to obtain information about read calls
  • Use DTrace to do anonymous tracing
  • Use DTrace to do speculative tracing
  • Explain the privileges necessary to run DTrace operations

Module 5 - Troubleshooting DTrace Problems

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

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