Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting with DTrace (SA-327-S10)
This course replaces SA-325-S10
The Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting with DTrace course provides students with the ability to use DTrace to diagnose application and system problems. This course replaces SA-325-S10.
LAB INFORMATION: The hands-on labs offered in this course may involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.
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.
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 understanding of the Solaris kernel, and have some programming experience such as Perl or C.
Code:
SA-327-S10
Length:
3 days
Type:
Instructor-Led
Certified By:
Sun Microsystems
Tuition:
$2,400 / $2,040 GSA GOV.
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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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