Date: 27-Nov-2009 URL: global/training/catalog/courses/WS-3270-S10.xml

DTrace Fundamentals and Troubleshooting DTrace Problems (WS-3270-S10)

The DTrace Fundamentals and Troubleshooting DTrace Problems course provides students with Dtrace Fundamentals and the ability to use DTrace to troubleshoot problems.

Course Length

1 hour

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Languages

English

Course Features and Services

Synchronized audio provided by an expert instructor

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

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