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IBM Websphere Application Server Administration

Category : IBM_TECH
Course-
Id
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IBM002
Course
Fees
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12000/- INR

Course Duration : 25 hours

Course Description: This course teaches the participants, typically System Administrators and
Advanced Administrators , the basics and advanced concepts of Websphere Application Server.

1. WAS product Family overview

Version 8 for Distributed Platform
Some key differences between the Version 5,6,7 and Version 8,
Standards support and programming models
Product packaging bundle
Express / Base / ND Overview
IBM HTTP server
WAS edge components
Flexible management

2. Architectural Overview

Express / Base / ND
WAS basics
WAS runtime
JDBC providers
Data Sources
Administrative agent
Job manager
Enhanced EAR
ND runtime flow, concepts
Managed Nodes Vs Un managed Nodes
Installation Concepts
H/W pre-requisites
S/W pre-requisites
Browser pre-requisites
Database requirements
Installation overview
Installation Environments
WAS profiles
Pre-install tasks

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Install verify
Silent Installation
Uninstall
Application Installation
Directory Structure
Server Commands
WAS plug-in installer, settings



3. J2EE Overview

Benefits
Platform Architecture
Platform Components


4. Administration Basics

Starting the Admin Console
Logging in to the Admin Console
Finding the items in the Console
Updating the existing Servers
Adding new Servers
Removing Servers
Starting and Stopping Servers
Starting and Stopping Nodes
Saving Work
Command Line Tools
wasadmin
wasadmin Options
Benefits of wasadmin


5. Working with Profile & Application Server

Different ways to create a profile
profile Directory structure
Profile Backup /Restore
Profile Management
Node federation
profile types
managed node / unmanaged node
Creating the Application Server
Viewing the status of the application Server
Starting and Stopping of an application Server
Viewing runtime attributes of an application Server
Customizing application Servers


6. Fix packs

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Installing fix packs, cumulative fixes
Update installer
Trouble shooting the fix packs installation problems

7. Service integration technologies and Webservices

Overview of SIB
Architecture of Service Integration Bus
Configuration service integration bus resources
Configuring JMS resources for service integration bus
Overview of Webservices
Configuring the JAX-RPC Handler and other Webservice Resources
Configuring Webservice resources with service integration bus

8. Application Install

Installing Enterprise application
Install tasks
Virtual hosts
Defining virtual hosts
Configuring JDBC Providers
Configuring Data Sources
J2C authentication alias
Managing applications
Mapping Modules
Start and stop applications
Viewing installed Apps
Starting and Stopping an enterprise application
Viewing the installed applications
Viewing the EJB modules
Viewing the WEB modules
Centralized installation


8. Managing Web Server with WAS

Web Server in unmanaged Node
IHS as unmanaged node
IHS admin servers
Web servers Custom plugin-cfg.xml
Managing plugin-cfg.xml files
Managing Web server plug-in properties
Propagating the plug-in configurations


9. Security

Introduction To Security
Security Levels
Enabling Global Security, Administrative Security, Application Security.

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Security Domains
Security and auditing
SSL Configuration
Managing Users & Groups.
creation & managing certificates

10. Clustering

Introduction to Clustering
Types of Clustering
Vertical Scaling
Horizontal Scaling
Heterogeneous Scaling
Server Affinity With Failover
Virtual Host
start to end of request processing in clustered env
Data Replication Service (DRS)
Edge Components
Load Balancer
Work Load Management Overview
High Availability Overview
Implementation of WLM & HA
Implementation of Clustering.

11.Performance Monitoring and Performance Tuning

Performance monitoring infrastructure
Performance Tools
JVM counters
Servlet Session counters
Work Load management counters

12. Trouble Shooting and BackUp Configurations

Interpreting the JVM logs, HTTP Logs, Process logs.
symptoms of a problems
Heap dump & Thread dump
Detecting the hung threads in J2EE applications
Configuration problem settings
Installation related trouble shooting /Tips
Memory Leaks, Types of Memory Leaks.
Interpretation With Memory Leaks.
Tools for analyze & Resolving WebSphere Problems