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-Pilot^TM
• 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)