Unit12 ProLUG Worksheet
Unit12 ProLUG Worksheet
Unit 12 Worksheet
Instructions
Fill out this sheet as you progress through the lab and discussions. Hold onto all of your work to
send to me at the end of the course.
Discussion Questions:
Unit 12 Discussion Post 1: Your manager has come to you with another emergency. He
has a meeting next week to discuss capacity planning and usage of the system with IT
upper management. He doesn’t want to lose his budget, but he has to prove that the
system utilization warrants spending more.
1. What information can you show your manager from your systems?
2. What type of data would prove system utilization? (Remember the big 4: compute,
memory, disk, networking)
3. What would your report look like to your manager?
Unit 12 Discussion Post 2: You are in a capacity planning meeting with a few of the architects.
They have decided to add 2 more agents to your Linus sytems, Bacula Agent and an Avamar Agent .
They expect these agents to run their work starting at 0400 every morning.
7 day view
24 hour view
1. What do these agents do? (May have to look them up)
2. Do you think there is a good reason not to use these agents at this timeframe?
3. Is there anything else you might want to point out to these architects about these
agents they are installing?
Unit 12 Discussion Post 3: Your team has recently tested at proof of concept of a new
storage system. The vendor has published the blazing fast speeds that are capable of being
run through this storage system. You have a set of systems connected to both the old
storage system and the new storage system.
1. Write up a test procedure of how you may test these two systems.
2. How are you assuring these test are objective?
a. What is meant by the term Ceteris Paribus, in this context?
Definitions/Terminology
Baseline
Benchmark
High watermark
Scope
Methodology
Testing
Control
Experiment
Analytics
- Descriptive
- Diagnostic
- Predictive
- Prescriptive
Terms:
Useful tools:
- Spyder ide
Topics:
1. System Stability
2. System Performance
3. System Security
4. System monitoring
5. Kubernetes
6. Programming/Automation
You will research, design, deploy, and document a system that improves your
administration of Linux systems in some way.
2. How can you apply this now in your current role in IT? If you’re not in IT, how can you
look to put something like this into your resume or portfolio?