| 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 Red Hat’s free online pre-assessment tests. |
| Goal |
RH442 is designed to teach the methodology of performance
tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat 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 Red Hat 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
|
