This course is a follow up of the WebSphere Server V4.0 Administration course and focuses on the WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.4 administration. WCS V5.4 is a typical but very large scale WebSphere Application. Students will get a chance to build on their existing WebSphere Application Server administration skills.

WebSphere Training Audience

System administrators who are responsible for setting up test, staging and production systems for WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.4 based stores.

WebSphere Training Prerequisites

WebSphere Server V4.0 Administration or a strong familiarity with administering WebSphere-based applications

WebSphere Training Course duration

2 Days

WebSphere Training Course outline

• Installation
  • How to evaluate correct system requirements
  • AIX and Windows 2000 specific issues
• Configuration
  • Creating a WCS instance
  • Creating a staging server instance
  • Setting up WCS to run as a non-root user
  • Managing log settings
  • Trouble shooting
• Store Maintenance
  • Software build process (customized for the client)
  • Creating a new store from a SAR file
  • Investigate store assets
  • How to update store assets in staging machine
    • Catalog data
    • Price data
    • Web site files
    • EJB modules
    • Java code
  • How to propagate changes in staging machine to production machine
  • How to schedule jobs for a site and a store
• Security
  • How to secure WebSphere administration activities
  • Create buying organizations (may be customized for the client)
  • Create shopper type users (pre-registration)
  • Create store and site administrators
  • Learn how to assign various roles to administrators
• Performance Tuning
  • Pre-compile JSP
  • Cache JSP output
  • Delete obsolete data