Format

Classroom

Duration

7.0 Day(s)

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.

Audience

This course is intended for System Administrators, Systems Engineers and System Support personnel.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should be able to:
o Manage AIX physical and logical storage
o Do basic performance analysis to identify where problems are in the system, and be able to suggest basic alternative strategies
o Utilize additional subsystems including cron to schedule system tasks, and accounting to analyze system activity
o Pull together many of the topics learned in previous courses to start addressing real-life system administrator issues

Objectives

After completing this course, students should be able to:
o Distinguish between system and application performance constraints
o Describe the performance implications of each subsystem by understanding, in general terms, how the subsystem works
o Identify and eliminate (or minimize) various software and hardware performance constraints using AIX tools and standard UNIX tools
o List various sources of information and support for capacity planning, system assurance, and performance tuning