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Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators, network administrators, and system architects who are responsible for managing and controlling the performance of complex, mixed-environment Solaris OS.  

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Install the Solaris OS
• Install Solaris OS software packages
• Read Solaris OS tuning reports (such as sar)
• Perform Solaris system administration functions

 

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Describe the Solaris 9 Resource Manager
• Administer projects and tasks
• Use the SunOS software scheduling classes
• Configure the Fair Share Scheduler (FSS)
• Use non-CPU resource controls
• Administer resource pools
• Use Extended Accounting
• Provide solutions for Solaris 9 Resource Manager case study exercises
• Describe the Solaris 9 OE IPQoS feature
• Describe the configuration of IPQoS

 

Related Courses

Before:

• Solaris System Performance Management (SA-400)

 

Course Content

Module 1 - Introducing the Solaris 9 Resource Manager

• Describe the capabilities of traditional UNIX resource controls
• Describe the capabilities of Solaris 9 Resource Manager resource controls
• Describe the Solaris 9 OS resource management facilities
• Describe differences between the Solaris 9 Resource Manager and the Solaris Resource Manager

Module 2 - Administering Projects and Tasks

• Describe project fundamentals
• Describe the project database
• Configure projects
• Configure a user's default project
• Display project information
• Describe task fundamentals
• Manage tasks
• Display task information
• Use a trojan horse with the newtask command
• Use cron with projects and tasks

Module 3 - Using the SunOS Software Scheduling Classes

• List the SunOS 5.9 software scheduling classes
• Describe thread priorities and CPU dispatch queues
• Describe the characteristics of each scheduling class
• Describe how the time sharing scheduling class works
• Describe how the fixed scheduling class works
• Describe how the system scheduling class works
• Describe how the real-time scheduling class works
• Describe the fair share scheduling class
• Use the priocntl command
• Use the dispadmin command
• Configure a system default scheduling class
• Use multiple scheduling classes

Module 4 - Configuring the Fair Share Scheduler

• List the system resource types
• Describe what the Fair Share Scheduler (FSS) does
• Describe shares
• Configure shares
• Describe the decay mechanism
• Calculate the FSS and system dispatch priorities
• Manage priority adjustments with the FSS
• Use the FSS in special configurations
• Describe the relationship between the FSS and IPQoS

Module 5 - Using Non-CPU Resource Controls

• Describe the use of resource limits
• Describe the interfaces to the resource controls facility
• Manage exceeded resource limits
• Identify system resource characteristics using the rctladm command
• Configure resource controls
• Configure resource controls using the project database
• Configure resource controls using the prctl command
• Configure virtual memory limits

Module 6 - Administering Resource Pools

• Describe resource pools
• Specify resource pool objects and properties
• Initialize the system resource pool configuration
• Configure resource pools ,li>Manage resource pools
• Activate and deactivate pool configurations
• Assign work to a resource pool
• Integrate processor sets into resource pools

Module 7 - Using Extended Accounting

• Describe Solaris OE resource accounting
• Determine Extended Accounting status
• Manage the Extended Accounting data files
• Configure Extended Accounting recording
• Report Extended Accounting data
• Write intermediate Extended Accounting records
• Use the logadm command to rotate Extended Accounting data files

Module 8 - Using Solaris 9 Resource Manager Example and Case Study Exercises

• Example; High Availability (HA) Failover
• Case study exercises:
• Workload Changing With Time of Day
• Background Data Warehouse
• Multiple Database Instances
• Server Consolidation
• Mixed Workloads and Server Sharing
• Academic Environment

Module 9 - Describing the Solaris 9 OS IPQoS

• Describe network resource management
• Define network activity terminology
• Describe what IPQoS does
• Describe how IPQoS works
• Configure IPQoS
• Describe the IPQoS processing flow
• Describe IPQoS edge and host configuration
• Describe what IPQoS does not do
• Describe the IPQoS relationship to the Solaris 9 Resource Manager

Module 10 - Configuring IPQoS

• Design a simple IPQoS configuration
• Describe the ipqosinit.conf file
• Describe the functions of the IPQoS components
• Configure packet classification
• Configure filter selectors
• Configure packet marking
• Configure packet metering
• Configure flow accounting
• Describe the effect of a sample IPQoS configuration file

 
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