Date: 27-Nov-2009 URL: global/training/catalog/courses/SEM-SA-327-S10.xml

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

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

The Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting with DTrace Seminar provides students with the ability to use DTrace to diagnose application and system problems.

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Languages

English

Who Can Benefit

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

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.

Skills Gained

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

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