This course utilizes a combination of instructor-led lectures and interactive workshops to demonstrate the administrative tasks for maintaining the WebSphere Application Server v5.1 environment. This seminar will focus on: WAS v5.1 editions, deployment considerations using ASTK, 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.

Prerequisites

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

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Audience

System administrators, network professionals and advanced web developers that will be maintaining and monitoring the WebSphere Application Server v5.1 environment

Learning Objectives

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

• Understand the differences in v5.1
• Install and configure environment for WebSphere Application Server v5.1
• 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