SGI® IRIX® Advanced System Administration
Course Length: Price:

Current Schedule:
4.5 days
€2100 / £1900

 This class is available upon request - please contact us
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The IRIX Advanced System Administration class provides experienced system administrators with the tools and skills to both monitor a system for errors and tune it for better performance. This course covers how to correct system errors, reconfigure the system, tune system resources, and implement disk quotas.

Topics Covered

  • SGI® systems architecture
  • Kernel reconfiguration and debugging
  • System monitoring tools, including Performance Co-PilotTM
  • System accounting
  • Process management
  • Memory management
  • Multiprocessor CPU management
  • Disk management
  • Disk quotas

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

  • Identify a system problem and determine a course of action to correct it
  • Monitor system performance and tune where necessary
  • Implement disk quotas

Prerequisites

  • IRIX System Administration I and IRIX System Administration II
  • Experience as a system administrator managing multiuser or project group systems; attendance in System Administration courses or the ability to comfortably set up and manage an IRIX system
  • Ability to install and configure IRIX; set up and attach devices such as printers, tape devices, and terminals; and repartition and reconfigure disks and filesystems

The student is overqualified if he/she can:

  • Reconfigure the IRIX kernel, identify system errors and performance bottlenecks and implement a course of action to remedy the problems, and implement disk quotas

Format

Instructor-led (lecture/lab)