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WebSphere Application Server 8.5 Administration on Windows Training

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WebSphere Application Server 8.5 Administration on Windows Training

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This course teaches the basics of the administration and deployment of enterprise applications in the IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 Network Deployment environment. This course covers all of the topics required to administer a production WebSphere environment, including troubleshooting, security, databases, messaging, performance, scripting, web services, and clustering.

Topics
 
  • Enterprise (Java EE) Applications
  • Installing and Configuring WebSphere Application Server
  • Installing Enterprise Applications
  • IBM HTTP Server Installation and Configuration
  • WebSphere Application Server Architecture
  • Application Tracing and Troubleshooting
  • Data Source Configuration and Management
  • Security Management
  • Java Messaging Service (JMS) Management
  • Performance Monitoring and Tuning
  • Scripting of Administrative Activities
  • Web Service Administration
  • Clustered Workload Management
 
What you will learn
  After completing this course, the student should be able to:
  • Install and configure WebSphere Application Server
  • Install, configure and manage enterprise applications
  • Configure web server integration
  • Assemble enterprise modules into applications
  • Use various troubleshooting tools and techniques to diagnose problems
  • Configure database connections
  • Configure runtime security
  • Install and configure messaging applications
  • Analyze and tune the performance of enterprise applications
  • Perform basic administrative tasks using scripting
  • Configure a cluster of WebSphere Application Servers
 
Audience
  This course is designed for Webmasters and System Administrators who need to install, configure and maintain systems using WebSphere Application Server 8.5 Network Deployment Edition.
 
Prerequisites
  The student should have good operational skills for Windows. Although not required, administration skills for a web server like Apache or IBM HTTP Server and knowledge of Java or web technology would also be beneficial.
 
Duration
  Five days

Outline of WebSphere Application Server 8.5 Administration on Windows Training

Chapter 1. Course Introduction

  • Course Description
  • Course Prerequisites
  • Course Objectives
  • Introductions
  • Agenda – Day 1
  • Agenda – Day 2
  • Agenda – Day 3
  • Agenda – Day 4
  • Agenda – Day 5

Chapter 2. Java EE and WebSphere Overview

  • Goals of Enterprise Applications
  • What is Java?
  • What is Java EE?
  • The Java EE Specifications
  • Role of Application Server
  • What is a Servlet?
  • Servlet Execution
  • What is a JSP?
  • JSP Code Sample
  • What is an EJB?
  • EJB Types
  • EJB Examples
  • Model-View-Controller Architecture
  • MVC – An Example
  • WebSphere Application Server Platform
  • "Base" Edition
  • Other WAS Editions
  • IBM HTTP Server
  • Other Products
  • Java EE and WebSphere Overview Questions
  • Java EE and WebSphere Overview Answers
  • Reference

Chapter 3. WebSphere Installation with Installation Manager

  • General System Requirements
  • Pre-Install Tasks
  • Installation Manager
  • Product Repositories
  • Repository Packaging Utility
  • Silently Installing Installation Manager
  • Recording Response Files With IM
  • Installation Manager Console Mode
  • Installing Products Silently With Response Files
  • WebSphere Profiles
  • Benefits of Profiles
  • Creating Profiles
  • Profile Management Tool
  • manageprofiles command
  • Product Files Directories
  • Profile Directories
  • Cell/Node/Server
  • Config Directory
  • Important Configuration Files
  • Starting and Stopping the Server
  • Application Server Installation Questions
  • Application Server Installation Answers
  • Reference
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 4. Administration Console and Application Deployment

  • Single Server Admin Structure
  • Administration Clients
  • Logging In
  • Console Overview
  • Navigation Tree
  • Workspace Area
  • Configuration and Runtime
  • Help Area
  • Save Configuration
  • Save Conflicts
  • Configuration Repository Checkpoints
  • Common Configuration
  • Scope
  • Application Installation
  • Installation Steps
  • Finishing Up
  • Start Application
  • Installing Applications From a Monitored Directory
  • Applications on File System
  • Admin Console & Application Deployment Questions
  • Admin Console & Application Deployment Answers
  • Reference
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 5. Web Server and Web Server Plug-in

  • Using a Web Server
  • Web Server Plug-in Architecture
  • Web Server Integration
  • IBM HTTP Server Installation
  • IBM HTTP Server Configuration
  • Plug-in Configuration
  • Plug-in Configuration Scenarios
  • IBM HTTP Server Services
  • Web Servers in WebSphere
  • Defining Web Servers
  • Mapping Applications to Web Servers
  • Plug-in Administration
  • Plug-in Tuning
  • Virtual Host
  • Virtual Hosts in WebSphere
  • Creating a Virtual Host in WebSphere
  • Relation to Enterprise Applications
  • Plug-in Syntax
  • Web Server & Web Server Plug-in Questions
  • Web Server & Web Server Plug-in Answers
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 6. Troubleshooting

  • Problem Determination
  • Error Reporting
  • Browser to Web Server Connection Problem
  • HTTP Request Problems
  • HTTP Request Solutions
  • Tools for Resolving WebSphere Problems
  • Admin Console Messages
  • Configuration Problems
  • Runtime Messages
  • Message Details
  • Basic and HPEL Logging Mode
  • Important Log Files
  • Configuring JVM Log Files
  • Viewing JVM Logs
  • Log Format
  • Event Types in JVM Log
  • Event Types in JVM Type
  • Setting the Log Levels
  • Level Specification String
  • Tracing
  • Configuring Tracing
  • Reading Java Exceptions
  • Common Exceptions
  • Server Does Not Start
  • dumpNameSpace Tool
  • Remote Debugging
  • Thread Dump
  • IBM Tools
  • Troubleshooting Questions
  • Troubleshooting Answers
  • Reference
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 7. WebSphere 8 HPEL Logging

  • New HPEL Logging Feature
  • Benefits of HPEL
  • HPEL Log Repository Architecture
  • HPEL Logging Configuration
  • HPEL Trace Configuration
  • Configuration of Log Detail Level With HPEL
  • Log Repository Location
  • Viewing HPEL Log Records in Admin Console
  • Viewing HPEL Log Records by Command Line
  • HPEL Text Log
  • Summary
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 8. IBM Support Assistant

  • Source of Errors
  • Support Tools
  • IBM Support Assistant
  • ISA Workbench
  • Customizing the Workbench
  • ISA Preferences
  • Search for Information
  • Case Management
  • Collecting Information
  • Guided Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshooting Tools
  • Manage Service Requests
  • ISA Lite
  • Summary

Chapter 9. JDBC and Data Sources

  • What is JDBC?
  • JDBC Driver
  • Typical JDBC Use
  • Problems to Address
  • JDBC Data Sources
  • Data Source Architecture
  • Typical Use of Data Source
  • Configuring JDBC in WebSphere
  • Creating JDBC Provider
  • Using WebSphere Variables
  • Creating Data Source
  • Connection Pools
  • Advanced DB2 Settings
  • Data Source Resource Reference
  • JPA and Data Source
  • JPA Administration
  • JPA Resource Reference
  • Logging JPA SQL Statements
  • Data Source Configuration Errors
  • JDBC & Data Sources Questions
  • JDBC & Data Sources Answers
  • Reference
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 10. JMS Overview and WebSphere MQ Configuration

  • Messaging Introduction
  • Messaging Example
  • Messaging Components
  • Messaging Types
  • JMS (Java Messaging Service)
  • Message Driven Beans (MDB)
  • MDB as Message Consumer
  • JMS Resources
  • Messaging in WebSphere
  • Default Messaging
  • WebSphere MQ
  • Which To Use?
  • WebSphere MQ JMS Configuration
  • WebSphere MQ JMS Provider
  • Connection Factory
  • Destination
  • Activation Specification
  • Binding MDB to Activation Specification
  • Relationship Between Messaging Components
  • JMS Messaging Configuration Questions
  • JMS Messaging Configuration Answers

Chapter 11. JMS Using Default Messaging Provider

  • Service Integration Bus
  • Bus Members
  • Messaging Engine
  • Message Store
  • Destination
  • Default Messaging JMS Configuration
  • Creating a Service Integration Bus
  • Adding a Bus Member
  • Bus Member Message Store
  • Add a Destination
  • Default Messaging JMS Provider
  • JMS Connection Factory
  • JMS Destination
  • JMS Activation Specification
  • MDB Listener Binding
  • Relationship Between Messaging Components
  • JMS Messaging Configuration Questions
  • JMS Messaging Configuration Answers
  • Resources
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 12. WebSphere Security

  • Security Overview
  • Architecture Components
  • Security Components
  • Digital Certificates
  • SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
  • SSL in WebSphere
  • WebSphere SSL Configuration
  • Java EE Security
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Challenge Mechanism
  • Configure Challenge Mechanism
  • User Registry
  • Federated Repositories
  • Security Configuration
  • User Registry Configuration
  • Authentication Mechanism Configuration
  • LTPA and Single Sign On Mechanism
  • Configuring LTPA
  • Single Sign-on (SSO)
  • Admin Console Roles
  • Fine Grained Administration Security
  • Security Domains
  • Stopping Secure Servers
  • WebSphere Security Questions
  • WebSphere Security Answers
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 13. Java EE Security

  • Authorization
  • Java Security
  • JAAS
  • Java EE Roles
  • Sample Role Mapping
  • Mapping Roles to Users/Groups
  • Map Users/Groups
  • Special Roles
  • Using Security Domains
  • Defining Security Roles
  • Resource Protection in Web Module
  • Resource Protection in EJB Module
  • Unprotected Methods
  • "Unchecked" Method Permissions
  • Run-As Delegation
  • Java EE Security Questions
  • Java EE Security Answers
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 14. Web Service Administration

  • What is a Web Service?
  • SOAP Overview
  • WSDL Overview
  • WSDL Syntax Overview
  • Service Endpoint Definition
  • Web Service Administration Tasks
  • Configure Endpoint URL in Provider Side
  • Publishing WSDL File
  • Configure Endpoint URL in Consumer Side
  • Working with Policy Sets
  • Stopping a Service Listener
  • REST Web Services
  • Chapter Questions
  • Chapter Answers
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 15. Performance Management

  • What Affects Performance
  • How to Measure Performance?
  • WebSphere Queuing Network
  • Performance Tuning
  • System Settings for Tuning
  • Top Tuning Parameters
  • Performance Monitoring Service
  • Enabling Performance Monitoring
  • Performance Statistics
  • Performance Data Available
  • Performance Advisors
  • Performance and Diagnostic Advisor
  • Tivoli Performance Viewer
  • Launching Tivoli Performance Viewer
  • Tivoli Performance Viewer Advisor
  • Summary Reports
  • Performance Data Options
  • Viewing Performance Data
  • Logging Performance Data
  • Performance Servlet
  • Performance Questions
  • Performance Answers
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 16. Java Memory Management

  • Java Heap Space
  • Heap Size Limits
  • Default Size Limits
  • Garbage Collection Basics
  • Allocation Failure (AF)
  • OutOfMemoryError
  • Memory Leak
  • Free Space Threshold
  • Garbage Collection Mechanism
  • GC Performance Improvements
  • Generational Garbage Collection
  • Thread Local Heap (TLH)
  • Memory Tuning Goals
  • Steady State Heap Size
  • Analyzing Steady State Behavior
  • Effect of Initial Heap Size on GC
  • Optimizing GC Duration
  • Summary

Chapter 17. Memory Management in WebSphere

  • Configuring the Heap
  • Garbage Collection Policy
  • Monitoring Memory Using PMI
  • Heap Dumps
  • Analysis Using IBM Support Assistant
  • Leak Advisor
  • IBM Java SDK v7
  • Summary
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 18. Command Line Administration

  • Command Line Tools
  • Common Binary Commands
  • wsadmin
  • wsadmin Options
  • Benefits of wsadmin
  • Properties
  • Security
  • Scripting Languages
  • JMX in WebSphere
  • Default Scripting Objects
  • Getting Help
  • AdminConfig
  • Object ID
  • Saving Configuration
  • AdminControl
  • Object Names
  • AdminApp
  • AdminTask
  • AdminTask exportWasprofile
  • Common Scripting Patterns
  • Profiles
  • Things to Remember
  • Command Line Administration Questions
  • Command Line Administration Answers
  • Reference
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 19. Jython Scripting Tools

  • Managing Configurations with Properties Files
  • Exporting Properties File
  • Filtering Exported Properties
  • Options When Exporting Properties
  • Property File Templates
  • Validate a Properties File
  • Importing a Properties File
  • Scripting in RAD
  • Script Configuration
  • Jython Command Assistance in Admin Console
  • Command Assistance Notifications
  • Jython Script Library
  • AdminServerManagement
  • AdminApplication
  • AdminJDBC
  • Scripting Tool Questions
  • Scripting Tool Answers
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 20. Network Deployment Architecture

  • Workload Management (WLM) Basics
  • Role of Network Deployment Software
  • Similarities With Base Edition
  • Differences With Base Edition
  • Coexistence With Base Edition
  • Network Deployment Cell
  • Deployment Manager and Node Agents
  • Configuration File Synchronization
  • Synchronization Problems
  • Firewall Issues
  • WebSphere Profiles - Recap
  • Network Deployment Profiles
  • Federating Nodes
  • Federating an Application Server Profile
  • Federating a Custom Profile
  • Prerequisites Before Adding Nodes
  • Steps Taken When Adding a Node
  • Recovering an Existing Node
  • Removing Nodes
  • Admin Console Changes
  • Controlling Deployment Manager and Node Agents
  • Automatically Starting Servers
  • Network Deployment Architecture Questions
  • Network Deployment Architecture Answers
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors
  • Lab Topology

Chapter 21. Web Server Management and Cluster Topology

  • Web Server Management
  • Administering IBM HTTP Server
  • IBM HTTP Server Architecture
  • Non-IHS Web Server
  • Managing Multiple Web Servers
  • Cluster
  • Vertical Scaling
  • Horizontal Scaling
  • "Mixed" Scaling
  • Heterogeneous Scaling
  • Creating a Cluster
  • First Cluster Member Options
  • Cluster Member Options
  • Managing Clusters
  • Mapping Applications to Clusters
  • Cluster Topology Screen
  • Topology
  • Factors Affecting Topology
  • Coexistence Scenarios
  • Common Topologies
  • All in One
  • Vertical Scaling
  • Server Separation
  • "Mixed" Scaling
  • Web Server Horizontal Scaling
  • Web Server Management & Cluster Topology Questions
  • Web Server Management & Cluster Topology Answers
  • Reference
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors
  • Lab Topology

Chapter 22. Workload Management and Application State

  • Types of WLM
  • Web Server WLM
  • Web Module WLM Architecture
  • Weighted Routing
  • State Management
  • Server Affinity
  • Weighted Routing with Server Affinity
  • EJB WLM
  • Factors Overriding EJB WLM
  • Problems With Server Affinity
  • Server Affinity With Failover
  • Data Replication Service
  • Number of Replicas
  • Enabling Server Affinity Failover
  • Session Database
  • Session Tuning
  • Distributed Session Tuning
  • Workload Management & Application State Questions
  • Workload Management & Application State Answers
  • Lab Summary
  • Common Lab Errors

Chapter 23. Overview of WebSphere Intelligent Management Features

  • Challenges to Address
  • Evolution of WAS ND 8.5
  • WebSphere 8.5 “Intelligent Management”
  • “On Demand Router”
  • Intelligent Routing
  • Service Policies
  • Adjusting for Capacity
  • Dynamic Clustering
  • Application Edition Management
  • Edition Control Center
  • Edition Management Use Cases
  • Concurrent Activation
  • Application Validation
  • Application Rollout
  • Health Management
  • Issues Solved by Health Management
  • Summary
  • Reference

Chapter 24. What's New in WebSphere Application Server 8.5 for Administrators

  • Java EE 6 Support
  • Installation Manager
  • Central Installation with IM
  • Installing Applications From a Monitored Directory
  • HPEL Logging
  • HPEL Details
  • OSGi Applications
  • OSGi Support in WebSphere 8.x
  • Java Batch Functionality
  • WebSphere Support for Java Batch
  • WebSphere 8.5 “Intelligent Management”
  • Summary

Chapter 25. Course Summary

  • WebSphere Certification
  • Reference
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