Oracle Solaris 11 Performance Monitoring
ORA-10130
Solaris performance monitoring involves tracking vital system resources—such as CPU utilization, memory consumption, disk I/O, and network activity—to ensure stability and optimize server performance. This is achieved through a combination of built-in Oracle utilities, advanced observability frameworks, and enterprise third-party platforms
Overivew
This course will provide a summary of tools and techniques used to monitor the performance of the hardware and operating system in an Oracle Solaris 11 operating environment. The student will use tools that are available in the standard release of the Solaris 11 OE
Prerequisites
Knowledge
Students to this class are expected to have:
- Good understanding Operating Systems Basics
- Students should have 3-6 months experience in Solaris 11 system administration
- Basic knowledge of
- Unix Operating System commands
- Bash/C Shell scripting
- File Management
- Networking and Security
- Basic understanding of computer operations skills :such as managing files
Technology
Depending on the delivery method of this course, the students should have :
- A Workstation with Internet browser capability such as (Chrome, Edge, or Safari)
- Good persistent internet connection without blocking firewalls(ideally non corporate firewall protected workstations)
The Labs
Labs are provided throughout the course and optionally can be extended for a 1 month period, students can practice the labs for unlimited times.
Labs covered in this course:
- Lab 1: Exploring Oracle Solaris 11.4
- Lab 2: Managing Oracle Solaris Storage
- Lab 3: Network Security and Troubleshooting
- Lab 4: Monitoring Non-Global Zones
- Lab 5: Oracle Solaris Monitoring
Objectives
By the end of the course, students should be able to
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Describe the features of Oracle Solaris 11
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Identify and Monitor Processes and thread activities
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Able to describe and monitor system memory resources
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Monitor disk I/O Operations nd troubleshooting
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Monitor system networks and identify network bottlenecks
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Monitor and troubleshoot Oracle Solaris
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Able to monitor Oracle Solaris non-global zones
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Monitor LDOM Solars Logical Domains
Audience
This course is designed to assist and equip the students with the skills and knowledge that allows them to perfect their daily tasks with respect to operationalize and administer the CI/CD pipelines with confidence and capitalize the organization investment on business operation reliability.
- System Administrator: Help architect and implement IT infrastructure exploiting full potential of Oracle Solaris OS
- Solution Architect: to better understand how to leverage Cloud and on-premise IT capabilities.
- SRE – Site Reliability Engineers: Help develop adequate Service Level Objectives (SLO), Service Level Indicators(SLI), and Observability across the overall system
- Networking Engineers: Understands the networking limitations and requirements and the business impact of network architecture on business
- Security Engineers: Help identify threats and implement security best practices on Oracle Solaris OS
- DevOps Engineers: Help understand the application design components with reference to Oracle Solaris OS as hosting server or development workstation by exploring all full potentials of Oracle Solaris OS.
- Other Users: Understand in depth how to operation a reliable Operating systems for their day today office work
- Migration Engineers: Help plan the modernization of legacy platform and take full potential of Oracle Solaris platform.
- Systems Architects: Develop reliable architecture with Oracle Solaris OS.
Timeline
The Oracle Solaris Performance Monitoring Course is a 3 days course, includes lectures, demos, and workshops.
The following is guidelines for the instructor to organize the time pace with the students, subject to change based on students preference.
Breaks during the day follows the 106 rule, every 45-60m
*the 106 rule, indicates the human memory capacity to learn the new factual elements which is 106 facts before the memory could be reused.
Course Curriculum
- Introduction to Oracle Solaris 11.4 Monitoring
- Displaying System Performance Information
- Displaying Virtual Memory Statistics
- Displaying Disk Utilization Information
- Displaying Disk Space Statistics
- Monitoring System Activities
- Managing Software Packages
- Managing Disk Use
- Scheduling System Tasks
- Managing the System Console, Terminal Devices, and Power Services
- Managing System Crash Information
- Managing Core Files
Process Monitoring
- Overview of Solaris System Information
- Managing System Information
- Managing System Processes
- Monitoring System Performance
- Schedulling System Tasks
- Managing the System Console, Terminal Devices, and Power Services
Memory Monitoring
- Virtual Memory Statistics
- System Event Information
- Swapping Statistics
- Interrupts
I/O Disk Performance Monitoring
- Overview of Managing Devices in Oracle Solaris
- Managing File Systems
- Managing ZFS File Systems
- Managing SAN Devices
- I/O Multipathing
ZFS Performance Monitoring
- Introduction to ZFS File System
- Managing ZFS Root Pool
- Monitoring ZFS Performance
- Troubleshoot ZFS File System
Network Performance Monitoring
- Overview of Solaris Networks
- Network Components in Oracle Solaris
- Network Virtualization
- TCP/IP, IPMP
- IP Tunnels
- Data Links
- Securing the network
- Troubleshooting Networks
Advanced Observability and Monitoring
- Oracle Solaris Tunable Parameters
- StatsStore
- System Web Interface
- DTrace
- MDB Modulear Debugger
- Falts, Defects, and Alerts
- Oracle VTS
Zone Monitoring
- Introduction to Oracle Solaris 11.4 Virtual Environments
- Introduction to Oracle Solaris Zones
- Adminestring Resource Managmeent in Oracle Solaris 11
- Monitoring Zone resources
Solaris Hardware Monitoring
- Oracle Hardware Managmeent Agent
- fmadm faulty
- fmdump
Monitoring LDOM
- Hypervisor and Logical Domains
- Logical Domains Manager
- Rules for Logical Domains
- Command Line Interface
- Virtual Input/Output
- Dynamic Reconfiguration
- Delayed Reconfiguration
- Persistent Configuration
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