Table of Contents

• Title and Copyright Information
• Preface
  • Conventions
  • Documentation Accessibility
  • Access to Oracle Support for Accessibility
  • Diversity and Inclusion
• 1 Monitoring the System and Optimizing Performance
  • About System Performance Problems
  • Working With System Performance and Monitoring Utilities
  • Monitoring the Usage of System Resources
    • Monitoring CPU Usage
    • Monitoring Memory Usage
    • Monitoring Block I/O Usage
    • Monitoring File System Usage
    • Monitoring Network Usage
  • Using the Graphical System Monitor
• 2 Working With the sosreport Command
  • About sosreport
  • Installing sosreport
  • Running sosreport
  • Reviewing Information Gathered by sosreport
• 3 Working With OSWatcher Black Box
  • About OSWbb
  • Installing OSWbb
  • Running OSWbb
  • Analyzing OSWbb Archived Files
• 4 Working With Performance Co-Pilot
  • About PCP
  • Installing PCP
  • Stopping PCP
  • Reviewing Information Gathered by PCP
  • Using PCP Monitor Host to Analyze Performance Metrics
    • Review Live Performance Metrics in Real Time
    • Review Recorded Performance Metrics
    • Review Details About Recorded Performance Metrics
    • Validate System Status When Performance Metrics Were Captured
• 5 Working With Tuned
  • About Tuned
    • About Tuned Profiles
    • About the Default Tuned Profiles
  • About Static and Dynamic Tuning in Tuned
  • Installing and Enabling Tuned From the Command Line
  • Running Tuned in no-daemon Mode
  • Administering the Tuned Service and Tuned Profiles
    • Listing Tuned Profiles
    • Activating a Tuned Profile
    • Disabling Tuned
• 6 Automating System Tasks
  • About Automating Tasks
  • Configuring cron Jobs
    • Controlling Access to Running cron Jobs
  • Configuring anacron Jobs
  • Running One-Time Tasks
    • Changing the Behavior of Batch Jobs
• 7 Working With Crash Dumps
  • About Kdump
    • Configuring and Using Kdump
    • Files Used by Kdump
    • Using Kdump with OCFS2
  • Using the crash Debugger
    • Installing the crash Packages
    • Running crash
    • Kernel Data Structure Analysis Commands
    • System State Commands
    • Helper Commands
    • Session Control Commands
    • Guidelines for Examining a Dump File