Course Description
 
This course teaches the basics of the administration and deployment of web applications in the IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.1 Network Deployment environment on the AIX operating system.

Topics

• Enterprise (J2EE) Applications
• Installing and Configuring WebSphere Application Server
• WebSphere Application Server Architecture
• Installing Enterprise Applications
• Basic Enterprise Application Management
• Workload Management
• Security Management
• Web Services management
• Java Messaging Service (JMS) Management
• Application Tracing and Troubleshooting
• Performance Monitoring and Tuning with Tivoli Performance Analyzer

Target Student:

This course is designed for Webmasters and System Administrators who need to install, configure and maintain systems using WebSphere Application Server V 5.1 Network Deployment Edition.

Prerequisites:

The student should have a good understanding of Web technology, Java, operational skills for Windows and administration skills for a web server (examples: Apache or IBM HTTP Server). The student should also have experience with UNIX based operating systems.
 
Delivery Method:

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives:

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

• Install and configure WebSphere Application Server
• Install, configure and manage enterprise applications
• Configure runtime security
• Assemble enterprise modules into applications
• Tune the performance of WebSphere services
• Analyze and tune the performance of enterprise applications

Course Content

1. Introduction to IBM WebSphere
  
Building J2EE and Web Services Application with IBM WebSphere
J2EE application modules
Web Services application module
Infrastructure for J2EE and Web Service applications
Examples of using WebSphere in J2EE and Web Services Application
Introduction to IBM WebSphere Family
WebSphere Application Server
WebSphere Portal
WebSphere MQ
WebSphere Commerce Suite
WebSphere Studio
Introduction to IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.1
Overview and new features of WAS V5.1
Editions of WAS V5
Architecture and components of WAS V5.1 Network Deployment
WAS V5.1 Network Deployment administration module and tools

2. WebSphere Application Server Installation 
 
Pre-installation
Network architecture planning and configuration
Typical network configurations for WAS 5.1
Setup single server environment
Setup multi-server environment
Install WAS V5.1 Network Deployment
Typical and custom installation
Silent installation
Test installation
Migrate to WAS V5.1 Network Deployment
Installation trouble shooting

3. WebSphere Application Server Architecture
 
WebSphere Application Server Component Architecture
Node
Application Server
Embedded HTTP server
Web Container
EJB Container
Web Service Engine
JMS server
Security Server
Admin Services, Admin console and applications
Configuration repository
HTTP Server and WebSphere Plug-in
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
Cell
Deployment Manager and Managed processes
Node Agent
Cluster
Web Service gateway and UDDI Registry
Edge Components
WebSphere Application Server Topology Selection
Vertical and horizontal scaling
Multi-tiered
Multiple instance and coexistence
Clusters
Topology selection criteria

4. WebSphere Application Server Administration
 
WebSphere Application Server administrative tasks
Administrating servers
Add/remove node (application server instance)
Start/stop network environment
Administrating applications
Assemble applications
Install/uninstall applications
Start/stop applications
WebSphere Admin Console
Introduction to functions of WebSphere admin console
Starting admin console
Admin console GUI
Using Admin console
Securing admin console
Using WebSphere Administrative Console for System administration
Administrating Servers
Create application servers
Start/stop application server
Monitor the running of application servers
Delete application servers
Configure transports
Set up Java virtual machine
Preparing to host applications
Create a virtual host.
Configure a Web container.
Configure an EJB container.
Create resources for data access.
Create a JDBC provider and data source.
Create a URL and URL provider.
Create a JMS destination, connection, and provider.
Configure a Session Manager.
Configuring Web server plug-ins

5. WebSphere Application Deployment and Administration
 
Assembling J2EE Application with Application Assembly Toolkit (ASTK)
Assemble EJB modules
Assemble Web modules
Generate EAR (Enterprise Application Archive)
Installing J2EE applications into WebSphere Application Servers
Setting class path and module visibilities of J2EE applications
Installing EAR or stand alone modules (war or jar)
Manage J2EE applications
Manage EJB containers
Manage HTTP sessions

6. WebSphere Application Security Administration
 
Concepts of WebSphere Application Security
WebSphere Security Environment Configuration
WebSphere SSL Configuration
Deployed Secured Applications
Test and trouble shootings for security configurations

7. WebSphere Application Server Administration-Advanced
 
Working with application server configuration files
Distributed administration
Managing administrative agents
Configure administrative services and repository
Configure deployment managers and cells
Configure nodes
Using WebSphere Command Line tools
Using WebSphere administrative (wsadmin) scripting program

8. WebSphere Application Tracing and Trouble Shooting
 
Problem Determination in WebSphere
Tools for Tuning and Trouble Shooting WebSphere Applications
Configuring WebSphere Application Server Trace with WebSphere Admin Console
Using WebSphere Log Analyzer
Using Object Level Trace and Distributed Debug

9. WebSphere Performance Tuning Foundations
 
Formalize terminologies
Througput and response time analysis

10. WebSphere Queue Network

Description and how to configure
          Ã Web server network queue (IBM HTTP Server in Windows and UNIX)
          Ã WebSphere working thread or process queue 
          Ã Web container network queue 
          Ã Web container thread queue 
          Ã Data source queue

11. Performance Data Gathering Tools
 
Using WebSphere Resource Analyzer
          Ã Various thread pools 
          Ã TCP/IP connection pool
          Ã Object instance pool
          Ã JVM heap usage 
          Ã Transaction timing
          Ã HTTP response timing

12. Optimizing JVM Memory Usage
 
Memory management in Java
          Ã IBM JDK
          Ã Sun JDK

Introduction to JVMPI
Using JProbe
          Ã Configure WebSphere for JProbe 
          Ã Locating memory allocation over usage hot spots.
          Ã Locating potential memory leaks.

Using WebSphere Studio Application Developer
          Ã Locating memory allocation over usage hot spots.
          Ã Locating potential memory leaks.

13. Performance Tuning Techniques

Common performance problems and solutions 
          Ã CPU under utilization
          Ã CPU over utilization
          Ã CPU bursty utilization 
          Ã Uneven cluster loading

Optimization
          Ã How to optimize the queue network 
          Ã How to optimize the connection pool
          Ã How to optimize JVM memory usage. 
          Ã Optimizing EJB container 
          Ã Common DB2 tuning tips. 
          Ã Session tuning 
          Ã Other tuning hotlist

14. WebSphere Web Services Management

Introduction to Web Services
Deploying and managing SOAP-Accessible Web Services
Assembling SOAP Services
Deploying SOAP Services
Securing SOAP services with SOAP Signature
Administering deployed SOAP services using XML-SOAP administrative tool
Using Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) to invoke Web services
Overview of WSIF
Maintaining the properties file for WSIF
Enabling security for WSIF
Enabling Web services through the IBM Web Services Gateway
Installing and Configuring WebSphere UDDI Registry

15. WebSphere Java Messaging Service (JMS) Management
 
Introduction to JMS
Administering WebSphere JMS
Installing and configuring a JMS provider
Moving from the internal JMS provider to WebSphere MQ
Enabling security for the embedded WebSphere JMS provider
Displaying administrative lists of JMS resources
Managing WebSphere internal JMS servers
Configuring JMS provider resources
Deploying JMS applications

16. WebSphere Application Workload Management
 
WebSphere multi-server scaling topologies
Vertical scaling
Horizontal scaling
Dispatcher
Deployment manager cells
WebSphere clustering and workload management
Manage WebSphere multi-server environments
Configure the cell-wide environment
Add node to a cell
Start/stop a node
Remove a node from a cell
Manager clusters for workload management
Creating clusters
Add application servers as cluster members
Start/stop clusters
Using replication
Configure workload management

17. Introduction to Migration
 
Migration paths
What you will need to migrate
Navigating Java and J2EE technologies
WebSphere v5.1 architecture primer
Developing a high-level migration plan

18. Migrating the System Configuration and Runtime
 
New system requirements
Planning and executing system upgrades
Migrating from WebSphere v3.5
Migrating from WebSphere v4.0
Product coexistence and interoperability during the transition
Upgrading the network systems