Websphere Application Server Admin Training Course

Objectives and Requirements

Provide students with the ability to manage,  tune and diagnose problems with applications within a WebSphere 6.1 environment.

Introduction

• Introduction to the WebSphere branded family of products and other companion products in the IBM software catalogue.
• Background and origin of the WebSphere Application Server.
• JEE Outline.
• IBM HTTP Server, powered by Apache.
• Installing and patching WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP Server (IHS) and the plug-in.

Websphere Interfaces

• WebSphere administrative interfaces
• Objects within the WebSphere administrative domain
• Defining external resources – MQ and Database
• Creating an application server container
• Starting and stopping application servers
• Workload management and clustering principals
• Applying fixes interactively and silently

Managing the Workload

• Workload management and clustering principals
• Applying fixes interactively and silently
• Creating multiple node cells – ‘federating’
• Deploying web applications into WebSphere
• Deploying Enterprise applications into WebSphere

Scaling

• Creating clusters
• Creating clones for horizontal and vertical scaling
• Deploying applications into clustered environments
• Application scalability
• Problem Diagnosis

Security and Performance

• Applying WebSphere and JEE security
• Tracing WebSphere and application behaviour
• Application assembly with the Server Toolkit
• Tivoli Performance Viewer and Performance Advisor