WebSphere Training : Advanced Administration of WebSphere Application Server v5

This training course is meant for medium to large scale companies maintaining a complex WebSphere based web site. The course covers advanced topics in the area of Work Load Management (WLM), name service, security, script based automation and transaction management.

After taking this course, students will be able to design a WebSphere based system that is more secure, easier to manage and performs better.

WebSphere Training Audience

The class is meant for the WebSphere adminsitrators who are currently maintaining a multi-machine environment running several applications. This course is highly recommended before starting to make any major enhancements to the current infrstructure with the intention to improve its capacity or security.

WebSphere Training Prerequisites

Students should have a good understanding of the basic administration aspects of WebSphere Application Server v5.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

Run a J2EE application in multiple machines and enable fault tolerence.
Understand how the name server works and configure a EJB client to perform JNDI lookup.
Enable LDAP based security.
Enable single sign on with Domino.
Configure EJB security.
Configure Java security.
Install and use the WebSphere client runtime.
Configure the firewall to allow EJB client connections.
Understand the JACL grammar.
Automate common tasks using JACL scripting.
Configure JMS and Message Driven Bean (MDB).
Tune MDB performance.
Understand distributed transaction and the role WebSphere plays in it.
Understand isolation level.
Configure distributed transaction for DB2, Oracle and WebSphere MQ.
Understand how classloaders work in WebSphere.
Configure the class loading policy.

WebSphere Training Course duration

Four days

WebSphere Training Topics

Work Load Management (WLM)
Name service
Security
EJB client
Advanced scripting
JMS administration
Dynamic caching
Transaction management
Class loaders

WebSphere Training Course outline

1. Work Load Management

Key concepts
EJB WLM
Web application WLM
Installation
Lab: Install ND and base
Adminster a cluster
Deploying applications in a cluster
Lab: Install an application in a cluster
Session replication
Lab: Enable session replication
Session persistence
Lab: Enable session persistence
Tuning session persistence
Session affinity
TCP dispatching using WebSphere Edge Server
Reverse proxy using WebSphere Edge Server

2. Name Service

What is name service?
Name service architecture
EJB JNDI names
- corbaloc
- corbaname
- Best practices
Lab: Running EJB client with various JNDI name syntax
Cell persistent names
Lab: Using cell persistent names

3. Advanced Security

Enable LDAP based security
Protecting administration console
Lab: Enable LDAP security using IBM Tivoli Directory Server
Enable SSL in the web server
Lab: Enable SSL in IBM HTTP Server
Enable SSL between web server and web container
Lab: Enable SSL between web server and web container
Enable Single Sign On
Configure EJB delegation
Java security
Lab: Enable Java security

4. EJB Client Management

WebSphere client runtime
Packaging a client EAR
Running a client EAR
EJB client port usage
Configure EJB client security
Enable SSL for IIOP
Lab: Run secured EJB client

5. Advanced Script Based Administration

JACL grammar
Getting help
AdminConfig, AdminApp and AdminControl objects
Basic example
Advanced example
Lab: Configure data source and install an application.
Using Ant to automate build and deployment
Lab: Use ANT to re-install an application

6. Advanced JMS Administration with WebSphere MQ

Basic JMS concepts
Configuring point to point messaging
Listener port error handling
MDB performance tuning
Lab: Configure JMS and MDB and WebSphere MQ
WebSphere MQ client
WebSphere MQ cluster
JMS security
Message format

7. Dynamic Caching

Caching Servlet and JSP
Fragment cache
Lab: Enable caching
Pushing cache to web server plugin
Personalized cache
Cache replication
Lab: Enable cache replication

8. Transaction Management

Introduction to transaction
Distributed transaction
Isolation level
Configuring distributed transaction between DB2 and WebSphere MQ
Transaction failure recovery
Transaction performance monitoring
Transaction troubleshooting

9. WebSphere Class Loaders

Various class loaders
Customizing class loader plocies
Shared library
Class reloading
Lab: Use shared library

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