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WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Administration Self-Paced Training Course

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Training Description

This WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration technical training course utilizes a combination of instructor-led lectures and interactive workshops to demonstrate the administrative tasks for maintaining the WebSphere Application Server v6.x environment. This self-paced course will focus on: WebSphere v6 architecture, WAS v6.x editions, deployment considerations, migration strategies, browser-based administration, performance and tuning issues, workload management, failover strategies, clustering, defining JMS servers, session management concerns, DataSources, PMI metrics and JVMPI and monitoring strategies.

Training Objectives

  • Understand the differences in v6.x
  • Install and configure environment for WebSphere Application Server v6.x
  • Depict the integration between different HTTP web servers and WebSphere
  • Define the implementation of distributed name spaces
  • Illustrate the performance monitoring metrics and their analysis using Tivoli Performance Viewer
  • Demonstrate the role of WebSphere security and the implementation of LDAP architecture.
  • Defining affinity and failover processing
  • Understand the session management considerations.
  • Depict the scripting tools for maintaining environment and deploying applications.
  • Discuss horizontal and vertical clustering
  • Understand the role of cells and clusters
  • Illustrate the role of the Deployment Manager

Prerequisites

Each student should have a general understanding of the WebSphere environment and the capabilities of the product. No Java programming exposure is required.

Self-Paced Modules

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration Training Section I: WebSphere Application Server

Module 1: Java Overview

  • Depict WebSphere edition offerings
  • Role of Deployment Manager
  • Discuss basic architecture

Module 2: Architecture Overview

  • Discuss components of Application Server
  • Utilization of Web Server plugin
  • Illustrate J2EE packaging and deployment
  • Deployment Manager and Node Agents
  • Cells and Clusters

Module 3: Network Deployment Version

  • Understand role of Deployment Manager
  • Administration via Deployment Manager

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration Training Section II: WebSphere Integration

Module 4: Environment Overview

  • WebSphere v6.x Business Integration
  • V6 Packaging Updates
  • Role of SDO
  • Use of JavaServer Faces

Module 5: Development Upgrades

  • Role of SDO
  • Upgrades to JMS
  • Use of JSF

Module 6: Migration

  • Supported migration paths
  • Migrate v5 to v6 Configuration
  • J2EE specification support

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration Training Section III: WebSphere Topology

Module 7: Installation Topologies

  • Illustrate basic terminology
  • Depict Installation topologies
    • Vertical scaling
    • Horizontal scaling
    • Proxy Server
    • Reverse proxy
    • Clustering

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration Training Section IV: Assembly and Deployment

Module 8: Packaging Overview (10.5 mins)

  • Illustrate J2EE Packaging
  • Define JAR, WAR and EAR files
  • IBM packaging additions

Module 9: Application Server Toolkit (19.5. mins)

  • Illustrating ASTK
  • WAR file creation
  • Creating EJB deployment code

Module 10: Enterprise Application Installation (22 mins)

  • Installing via browser application
  • ND enterprise deployment
  • Creating EJB deployment code

Module 11: WebSphere Class Loaders (17.5 mins)

  • Defining classloaders
  • Illustrate classloader delegation
  • Depict classloader policies

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration Training Section V: WebSphere Administration

Module 12: WebSphere Administration Model (20 mins)

  • WebSphere Administration console components
  • Defining the navigation tree
  • Understand the role of scope

Module 13: Administrative Console-Server Settings (45.5 mins)

  • Console topology
  • Server configuration settings
    • Container
    • Messaging
    • Communication
    • Performance
    • Troubleshooting

Module 14: Managing Deployed Applications (13 mins)

  • List of Enterprise applications
    • Deployment properties
    • References
    • EJB properties
    • Web properties
  • Application class loading preferences

Module 15: Resource Providers (44 mins)

  • Role of resource providers
  • JDB Providers
  • JMS Model
  • Using resource adapters
  • Object pools

Module 16: Environment Settings (22 mins)

  • Virtual Hosts
  • Shared libraries
  • Replication Domains
  • WebSphere Variables

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration Training Section VI: WebSphere Resource Configuration

Module 17: JDBC Concepts (33 mins)

  • Illustrate JDBC with MVC
  • Role of JDBC Drivers
  • JDBC Connection Pooling
  • Connection Pool properties and settings

Module 18: J2EE Connectors (10 mins)

  • Defining JCA
  • Installing JCA Adapters

Module 19: JMS Providers (30 mins)

  • JMS Overview
  • Point-to-Point and Pub-Sub Models
  • Messaging with MDBs

Module 20: Session Management Concepts (17 mins)

  • Session Support
  • Runtime Server sessions
  • Session Manager and Session table

Module 21: Session Configuration (38.5 mins)

  • Server Settings
  • Tracking options
  • URL Rewriting
  • Session Affinity
  • Persistent Session Management

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration Training Section VII: WebSphere Naming Architecture

Module 22: JNDI Overview (22 mins)

  • JNDI Architecture
  • New features in v6.x
  • Federated Namespace
    • Persistent
    • Transient
    • System
  • Naming topologies

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration Training Section VIII: Managing and Configuring

Module 23: Application Server Configuration (32 mins)

  • Server components
  • Configurable properties
  • Logging settings
  • Class loading policies

Module 24: Managing Clusters (25 mins)

  • Cluster creation
  • Workload Management
  • Server weighting
  • Using of Replication Domain

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration Training Section IX: J2EE Security

Module 25: Security Overview (38.5 mins)

  • J2EE Security Layers
  • WebSphere v6.x Security Model
  • Authentication and Authorization

Module 26: Security Role Mapping (17.5mins)

  • Security Roles
  • WebSphere Authorization Policy
  • Certificates
  • Single Sign-on

Module 27: Security Policy Configuration(19 mins)

  • WebSphere authorization policies
  • Delegation policy
  • Certificate authentication
  • Single Signon

Module 28: Administer Global Security (10.5 mins)

  • Configuring Global security
  • Mapping Administrative roles
  • Mapping groups

Module 29: Configure User Registry (8 mins)

  • Defining LocalOS Registry
  • Using LDAP
  • Configuring LTPA

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration Training Section X: Performance and Tuning

Module 30: Performance Monitoring (18.5 mins)

  • PMI Group Hierarchy
  • Data Collection levels
  • Instrumentation levels

Module 31: Tivoli Performance Viewer (32.5 mins)

  • Using Tivoli Performance Viewer
  • View PMI Performance data
  • Real-time data viewing
  • Resource selection
  • Charting monitored values

WebSphere Application Server 6.1 Administration Training Section XI: Administrative Techniques

Module 32: JMX Overview (12.5 mins)

  • JMX Architecture
  • Connectors and Adapters
  • Distributed Architecture

Module 33: Administrative Scripts (29.5 mins)

  • JMX and wsadmin
  • Overview of JACL
  • Scripting commands
    • Define variables
    • Create loops
    • Conditional tests

Module 34: Examining JACL Scripts (12.5 mins)

  • Role of mBeans
  • Writing JACL scripts
  • JACL Scripting commands