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Dtrace Facility (VC-SA-327-S10)

DTrace Facility (VC-SA-327-S10)
 
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The DTrace Facility course provides students with the ability to use Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) to diagnose application and system problems.

 
 
Format
This course is presented using Sun's web-based Live Virtual Class (LVC). The LVC is a dynamic and fully interactive online learning environment that features live teaching collaboration, and instructor-assisted activities.

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Product ID Duration Price
VC-SA-327-S10 3 days $2,100.00

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Lab Information
The hands-on online labs offered in this course involve accessing equipment through a network terminal session. Students will not have physical access to this equipment. Students will access the equipment through Sun's Remote Lab Data Center (RLDC).

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Technical Requirements
Before purchase, please review technical requirements:

Please note you are required test your RLDC compatibility before purchase.

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Languages
English

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Course Features and Services
  • Live audio by expert instructor
  • Lab reviews, simulations, demonstrations, or lab exercises
  • Printable Study Guide

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

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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.

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

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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

Module 4 - Finding System Problems with DTrace

  • Use DTrace to access kernel variables
  • Use DTrace to obtain information about read calls
  • Use DTrace to do anonymous tracing
  • Use DTrace to do speculative tracing
  • Explain the privileges necessary to run DTrace operations

Module 5 - Troubleshooting DTrace Problems

  • Describe how to lessen the performance impact of DTrace
  • Describe how to use and tune DTrace buffers
  • Debug DTrace scripts

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