Web sphere application server administration

Web Sphere Application Server Administration (7.0 and 8.5): Akira IT

COURSE CONTENT

1.WAS product family overview.

• What is WAS and its functionality.

• Some Key differences between the version 6.0 & 6.1, 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5 • Product packaging.

• Express/Base/Network Deployment - overview.

2. WAS Installation.

• Hardware and software pre-requisites.

• Installation overview.

• Installation Environments.

• Profile Types and their details.

• Creating profiles using command line tool.

• Pre-install tasks.

• Installation verification.

• WAS Install - Network Deployment and Base.

• WAS Directory structure.

• Backup Config Task.

• Uninstall.

3. Architectural Overview and System Management.

• Standalone and Distributed server overview.

• Base/ Express/ ND. • WAS Basics.

• Repository Directory Structure.

• JDBC providers.

• Data Sources.

• JAAS configuration.

• Application Data Files.

• Build cell- add/remove Nodes.

• Cell, deployment manager, node and node agent.

• Creating and Managing profiles.

• Managed node groups.

• Enhance EAR. • Managed Nodes vs Un managed Nodes.

• File Synchronization.

• Defining Virtual hosts.

• Command line tools.

• Server Commands.

4. Administrative Console.

• Starting the Admin Console.

• Logging into the Admin Console.

• Administrative console areas.

• Administrative console preferences and Filters.

• Finding components in Administrative console.

• Updating the components of Administrative console.

• Adding new objects to Administrative Console.

• Removing existed objects from Administrative console.

• Starting and stopping objects of Administrative console.

• Saving work to Master Repository.

• Backing up the profile configuration.

• Restoring the configuration.

5. Working with Standalone Application Server.

• Managing the Application server profile.

• Application Server Configuration.

• Viewing the status of the Application server.

• Starting and Stopping the Application server.

• Viewing the runtime attributes of an application server.

• customizing the application servers.

6. Application Install.

• Installation Tasks.

• Creating J2C authentication alias.

• Virtual Hosts creation and configuration.

• Creating JDBC resources.

• Creating Data sources.

• Enterprise Application Installation.

• Managing Applications.

• Start and Stop Applications.

• Viewing Installed Applications.

• Viewing the EJB modules.

• Viewing the WEB modules.

• J2EE Application Flow.

7. Managing Webserver with WAS. • IBM HTTP SERVER as Managed Node.

• IBM HTTP SERVER as Un-managed Node.

• Starting and stopping the Webserver.

• Webserver, Custom plugin-cfg.xml.

• Workflow of plug-in file.

• Managing plugin-cfg.xml files.

• Managing Web server plug-in properties.

• Generating Custom plug-in and propagating.

8. Work Load Management & High Availability.

• What is clustering?

• Types of Clustering.

• Horizontal Clustering vs Vertical Clustering.

• Creating and Configuring the Cluster.

• Basic WLM request routing mechanism.

• Configure Virtual Host and Host Aliases.

• Federation of Nodes in ND. • Viewing the status of the cluster.

• Starting and stopping Clusters and Cluster members.

• Edge Components, HTTP server, Web container and EJB container Failover.

9. JMS and SIB Mechanism.

• WebSphere messaging and basic flow.

• Queues, connection Factory and Destinations.

• SIBus and ME's in standalone and ND. • Introduction to WebSphere MQ. 10. WAS Security Mechanisms.

• Introduction To Security.

• Security Levels.

• Enabling Global Security, Administrative Security, Application Security.

• SSL Configuration.

• User Creation & Interpreting.

11. Troubleshooting • WebSphere Application Server Logs.

• Log File Types and locations.

• Configuring and Viewing logs at runtime.

• Enabling Logging and Tracing.

• Interpreting the JVM Logs.

• Process Logs.

• Procedure to Generate Heap and Thread Dumps.

• Installation related Trouble shooting / Tips.

• Enable Verbose Garbage Collection.

12. Performance Monitoring.

• Performance monitoring infrastructure.

• JVM Counters.

• Work Load Management Counters.

• JDBC connection pool counters.

13. WSADMIN Scripting.

• WSADMIN vs Administrative Console.

• WSADMIN functions and its connection type.

• Invoking WSADMIN. • WSADMIN administrative objects.

• Introduction to JACL/Jython.

14. Real Time Environment Web Sphere Admin Responsibilities About Ticketing & Monitoring tools ITIL(Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Process Types of Ticket Severity Levels 15. Resume Preparation & Interview guidance

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