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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Troubleshooting Guide

By : Benjamin Cane
Book Image

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Troubleshooting Guide

By: Benjamin Cane

Overview of this book

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an operating system that allows you to modernize your infrastructure, boost efficiency through virtualization, and finally prepare your data center for an open, hybrid cloud IT architecture. It provides the stability to take on today's challenges and the flexibility to adapt to tomorrow's demands. In this book, you begin with simple troubleshooting best practices and get an overview of the Linux commands used for troubleshooting. The book will cover the troubleshooting methods for web applications and services such as Apache and MySQL. Then, you will learn to identify system performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot network issues; all while learning about vital troubleshooting steps such as understanding the problem statement, establishing a hypothesis, and understanding trial, error, and documentation. Next, the book will show you how to capture and analyze network traffic, use advanced system troubleshooting tools such as strace, tcpdump & dmesg, and discover common issues with system defaults. Finally, the book will take you through a detailed root cause analysis of an unexpected reboot where you will learn to recover a downed system.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Troubleshooting Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Comparing historical metrics


Looking at all of the facts that we learned about this system so far, it seems that our next best course of action would be to recommend contacting the vagrant user to identify whether the lookbusy and bonnie++ applications should be running with such high resource utilization.

While the previous observations show a high resource utilization, this level of utilization may be expected for this environment. Before we start contacting users, we should first review the historical performance metrics of this server. In most environments, there is some sort of server performance monitoring software such as Munin, Cacti, or one of the many cloud SaaS providers in place that collects and stores system statistics.

If your environment utilizes one of these services, you can use the collected performance data to compare previous performance statistics with the information that we just gathered. If for instance over the past 30 days, the CPU performance was never higher than...