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LPI exam 301 prep, Topic 306: Capacity planning

Senior Level Linux Professional (LPIC-3)

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Level: Intermediate

Sean Walberg (sean@ertw.com), Senior Network Engineer, Freelance

15 Apr 2008

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Welcome to the next step in studying for the Linux® certification exam 301. This tutorial series serves as a comprehensive self-study guide so you can take the exams with confidence. And even if you're not preparing for Linux certification at this time, this series helps you build fundamental skills on Linux systems administration.

In this tutorial (the last in a series of six tutorials on exam 301 topics), Sean Walberg walks you through monitoring your system resources, troubleshooting resource problems, and analyzing system capacity.

Proceed through the tutorials in sequence, or choose your topic of interest, from the entire set of Linux certification tutorials on developerWorks.

In this tutorial

  • Measure hardware and network usage.
  • Identify and troubleshoot resource problems.
  • Identify the capacity demands of your software.
  • Plan for the future by trending usage and predicting when your applications will need more resources.


Objectives

This tutorial is organized according to the specific objectives of the LPI exam for this topic. This tutorial can help you study for certification—or simply build a solid foundation in Linux system administration.

Prerequisites

To get the most from this tutorial, you should have an advanced knowledge of Linux and a working Linux system on which to practice the commands covered.

If your fundamental Linux skills are a bit rusty, you may want to first review the tutorials for the LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 exams.


System requirements

To follow along with the examples in these tutorials, you'll need a Linux workstation with the OpenLDAP package and support for PAM. Most modern distributions meet these requirements.



Duration

More than 2 hours


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