WebSphere Application Server v6.x Administration

Audience
System administrators, network professionals and advanced web developers that will be maintaining and monitoring the WebSphere Application Server v6.x environment
   

Duration

 4-5 Days
   
Course Abstract
This course utilizes a combination of instructor-led lectures and interactive workshops to demonstrate the administrative tasks for maintaining the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment environment. This seminar will focus on: WebSphere editions, deployment considerations using ASTK, migration strategies, browser-based administration, scripting, performance and tuning issues, workload management, failover strategies, clustering, defining JMS servers, session management concerns, DataSources, PMI metrics and JVMPI and monitoring strategies.

Each of the topics will be reinforced through a series of hands-on exercises and case studies.
   
Objectives

Upon conclusion participants will have acquired these skills:

  • Understand the differences between v5.x and v6.0
  • Install and configure environment for WebSphere Application Server ND version
  • Illustrate the performance monitoring tools available
  • Demonstrate the role of WebSphere security and the implementation of LDAP architecture.
  • Defining affinity and failover processing and strategies with WebSphere
  • Understand the session management considerations
  • Demonstrate implementation and configuration of JCA resource adapters
  • Define the configuration of JDBC connection pools
  • Understand the role of JMS and configuration of a JMS Server
  • Illustrate the federated WebSphere namespace environment
  • Understand the WebSphere class loading policy
  • Depict the wsadmin scripting tool and Jacl scripts for maintaining application server environment and deploying applications
  • Illustrate the usage of the Application Assembly Toolset for packaging J2EE applications
  • Discuss horizontal and vertical scaling and clustering
  • Understand the role of WebSphere nodes, cells and clusters
  • Illustrate the role of the Deployment Manager
   
Class Format Lecture and Lab
   
Prerequisites

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

The following list represents the sections and topics discussed in this virtual instructor-led course offering.
 

WebSphere v6.x Overview

  • v6.0 Differences
  • Implementation variations
  • Network Deployment vs standalone version
  • Cells, nodes & clusters
  • Web Services Gateway
  • JCA support
  • Migration processes

WebSphere Naming

  • Naming topology
  • v6.0 new features
  • Federated namespace
  • System, persistent and transient namespaces
  • CosNaming
  • Naming topology implementations
  • WebSphere v4 client

Topology

  • Implementation versions
  • Vertical Scaling
  • Http Server separation
  • Reverse Proxy
  • Horizontal Scaling
  • IP Sprayer
  • WebSphere Cells
  • WebSphere Clusters

Server Configuration

  • Managing Servers
  • Application Server creation
  • Application class loader policy
  • Class loading mode
  • Server properties (Web, EJB, Transaction, Threads, ORB, etc)
  • WebSphere Clusters
  • Managing clusters

Assembly & Deployment

  • Application packaging
  • Application Assembly Tool
  • earconvert tool
  • ejbdeploy command
  • Class loading policies
  • Enterprise application installation

WebSphere Security Server

  • WebSphere Security model
  • Authorization and Authentication
  • JAAS
  • CSIv2
  • LDAP vs Local OS
  • SWAM

WebSphere Administration

  • WebSphere Admin model
  • Administative Console
  • Scope and Filters
  • Managing Nodes and synchronization
  • Resource provider installation
  • Virtual hosts
  • Web Server plugin
  • Variables
  • Logging and Tracing
  • Log Analyzer
  • Enterprise Application properties

Performance & Tuning

  • Performance Monitoring components
  • Tivoli Performance Viewer
  • PMI Service and infrastructure
  • Data collection services
  • Performance data classification
  • Enabling PMI
  • Instrumentation levels
  • Monitoring real-time applications
  • Viewing EJB/Web Container, JDBC pools, Threads, ORBs, etc

Server-side Components

  • Servlets and their lifecycle
  • Web Container role
  • JSPs and the JSP Engine
  • EJBs and role of EJB Container

Administrative Techniques

  • JMX architecture
  • MBeans role
  • SOAP connectors
  • Role of wsadmin environment
  • AdminControl, AdminConfig & AdminApp
  • Jacl scripts

Resource Configuration

  • JDBC role
  • Connection pooling
  • Resource adapters and JCA connectors
  • Session management
  • Session affinity
  • WebSphere internal messaging
  • JMS and JMS providers
  • MQSeries integration
 J2EE Security
  • J2EE Security model
  • Authentication/Authorization
  • Delegation and Trusting
  • Network Deployment implementation
  • LDAP vs Local OS registries
  • Security Collaborators
  • Security role mapping
  • RunAsmode
  • RunAsIdentity
  • HTTP single sign-on
  • WebSphere Security model
  • Authorization and Authentication
  • JAAS
  • CSIv2
  • LDAP vs Local OS
  • SWAM
  • Process activity sequencing