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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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).
 

Technical Requirements

Before purchase, please review technical requirements:

• Elluminate Virtual Classroom compatibility
• Sun Remote Lab Data Center (RLDC) compatility
• System requirements
• Speakers/headphones and microphone
• DSL or other high speed connection
• Macromedia Flash requirements
• Java technology enabled browser
• Javascript technology enabled browser

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

 

Languages

English  

Course Features and Services

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

 

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

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

 

Related Courses

Before:

• Solaris 9 Operating System Internals (SP-365)

After:

• Solaris System Performance Management (SA-400)

 

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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