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The Solaris Resource Manager/Solaris Bandwidth Manager Administration course provides students with the essential knowledge and skills needed to administer Solaris Resource Manager (SRM) and Solaris Bandwidth Manager (SBM) software tools. These tools help customers maximize the value of their information technology investments by increasing and prioritizing hardware and bandwidth utilization. The course provides comprehensive coverage of both products, including installation, configuration, administration, operation, reporting, and troubleshooting. If you are running the Solaris 9 Operating Environment (Solaris OE), the appropriate course for the SRM is ES-431, Solaris 9 Resource Manager Administration
Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are senior system administrators, capacity and resource planners, and those responsible for configuration management, server consolidation, or administration of a complex network or server environment.
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Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:- Administer Solaris OE systems
- Navigate the complexities of network environments
- Have experience in Solaris performance management
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Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: - Install the SRM and SBM
- Design the SRM and SBM environment
- Configure the SRM and SBM environment
- Monitor SRM and SBM daily usage
- Analyze report data
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Course Content
Module 1 - Introducing the Solaris Resource Manager
- Describe the normal UNIX environment
- Explain the Solaris Resource Manager management process
- Differentiate between the Solaris Operating Environment priorities and
central processing unit (CPU) usage
- List scheduling class characteristics
- Define system resource types
- Describe the concept of service units
- Compare the SRM and CPU tasks
- Define the Share scheduling class and its relationship to SRM
- Describe the usage of multiple scheduling classes
- Describe the functionality of SRM
- Compare the functionality of the SRM to the Solaris Bandwidth Manager
Module 2 - Solaris Resource Manager Capabilities
- List the system resources managed by the SRM
- Explain the limit node (lnode)
- Understand users and groups in relation to the lnode
- Identify the accounting limits of the SRM
- Describe the SRM shares allocation
- Define SRM share hierarchy
Module 3 - Installing and Configuring the Solaris Resource Manager
- State SRM installation environments
- List SRM compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM) documentation
- Differentiate between the SRM software packages
- Explain the SRM software installation process
- Define the location of the SRM software files and the reboot requirements
- Identify the SRM disk space allocation
- Understand the SRM database attributes
- Correlate tunable parameters to kernel memory
- Describe the boot sequence in relation to SRM
- Update the existing SRM documentation
- Define the process to disable and remove SRM from the system
Module 4 - Building the Tree
- Describe the lnodes UNIX commands
- Explain the usage of the srmidle lnode, srmlost lnode and srmother lnode
commands
- Identify the hierarchical group tree structure design
- Define user resource share allocation
- Understand the allocating shares process
- Provide UNIX commands to assign shares
- Learn the process to migrate users and to delete lnodes
- Describe cross-system utilization
Module 5 - Operating the Solaris Resource Manager
- Compare SRM share (SHR) scheduler to CPU usage
- Identify how lnode shares are allocated and calculated
- Define the decay process in relation to the lnodes CPU usage
- Describe the system priority calculation method
- Describe how to use the nice and priocntl commands used with SRM
- Describe how and when to use the srmuser command
Module 6 - Administering the Solaris Resource Manager
- Describe the many uses of the srmadm command
- Show the interaction of the SRM components
- Explain system privileges and flags
- Define lnode administration service, terminal, and administration flags
- Input SRM commands, set up shares and time allocations, and prevent rlogins
Module 7 - Non-CPU Resource Management
- Define how the SRM manages the process count
- Compare SRM to the login control flags
- Describe the limdaemon process and how it is initiated
- Explain connect time management
- Provide instructions for SRM to interact with the Pluggable Authentication
Module (PAM)
- Describe virtual memory limits
- Explain physical memory limits and how to enforce them
- Configure the RCAPD environment
- Configure the rcapd daemon
- Monitor capping activity
Module 8 - Reporting and Statistics
- Define how the limreport command extracts data from the Solaris Resource
Manager (SRM) database
- Explain the srmstat command used in the SRM hierarchy
- Show examples using the srmstat command
- Differentiate between the uses of memory and storage units, time units, and
combination units
- Describe the accounting and charge backs process using the limreport command
Module 9 - Troubleshooting
- Compare orphan lnodes files to running processes
- Define group loops within an SRM tree
- Identify the process to correct user id conflicts
- Provide the corrective action to end limdaemon termination
- Describe how to change UIDs
- Describe how to detect a damaged SRM database
- Describe the SRM database backup and recovery function
- Identify SRM 1.3 RCAPD problems
Module 10 - Solaris Resource Manager Example and Case Study Exercises
- Describe an example of the concept of high availability fail over
- Describe a case study with workload changing with time of day (TOD)
- Describe a case study for a background data warehouse environment
- Describe a case study for multiple database instances
- Describe a case study for server consolidation
- Describe a case study for mixed workloads and server sharing
- Describe a case study for an academic environment
Module 11 - Solaris Bandwidth Manager Overview
- Compare SBM's low-priority to high-priority traffic
- Describe bandwidth transfer in relation to throughput rate on the network
- Describe how SBM helps administrators manage network resources
- List the benefits and deployment of SBM
- Define the SBM modes of operation
- Explain how SBM monitors and measures network usage
- Describe hierarchical sharing and firewall compatibility
- Describe what SBM cannot do on the network
- Compare SBM's relationship to SRM
- List the features and benefits of SBM 1.6
Module 12 - Solaris Bandwidth Manager Installation
- Identify the versions and patches of the Solaris Operating Environment
required to run SBM
- List the SBM documentation
- Describe the SBM supported hardware interfaces
- Describe the SBM software packaging
- Describe the SBM installation process
- Specify the location of the installed SBM software
- Explain the reconfiguration reboot sequence
- Define the process to disable and deinstall SBM
Module 13 - Solaris Bandwidth Manager Operation
- Describe the process to set up the ipqos module
- Explain the three scripts that run during boot processing
- Describe the SBM process structure
- Identify the use of the bagent daemon
- Describe the bagent architecture
- Differentiate between the phases of SBM processing
Module 14 - Solaris Bandwidth Manager Configuration
- Describe the requirements for SBM configurations
- List SBM design considerations
- Describe the SBM configuration files
- Define the subsections, parameters, and structure of the ba.conf file
- Explain and provide an example of the host group subsection
- Describe the subnet group subsection
- Specify the URL group subsection components and reserved characters
- Compare the service definition subsection to the IP services
- Use filter definitions with other subsections
- Use interface subsections to define physical interfaces
- Use class subsections to identify IP packets
Module 15 - Using the batool Application
- Define the process to run the batoolapplication
- List the batoolmenu GUI icons
- Describe the batoolmenu GUI modes
- Describe how to use the use the batooloverview panel
- Explain the configuration panels and the sub-panel displays
- Describe how the schedule panel interacts with SBM
Module 16 - Solaris Bandwidth Manager Statistics
- Explain how SBM provides statistics on flows
- Describe the bastatcommand usage with SBM
- Define how SBM provides accounting, billing, and charge backs
- Describe the differences between the uses of the batoolGUI statistics, class
statistics, and flow statistics panels
- Describe how to use the SBM simple network management protocol (SNMP)
interface
- Identify the format of Netflow packets
Module 17 - Troubleshooting the Solaris Bandwidth Manager
- Describe the most common errors that cause lost interfaces
- List GUI startup problems
- Identify browser problems and fixes
- State the SBM log file usage
- Describe and provide examples of the stracetracing utility
- Explain how the bagentdaemon is used for debugging
,li>State how the batoolGUI trace is initiated
Module 18 - Solaris Bandwidth Manager Example and Case Studies
- Describe an example of high availability (HA) fail over
- Describe a case study with workload changing with time of day (TOD)
- Describe a case study for server consolidation
- Describe a case study for mixed workloads and server sharing
- Describe a case study for multiple database instances
- Describe a case study for the shared HA environment
- Describe a case study for data extraction from mainframe for Web servers
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