WebSphere Application Server 6 Administration

Duration: 3 days Audience Prerequisites System Administrators Students should have basic understanding of server systems Enterprise Application Developers Students should know the basics of some Java technologies

Description An enterprise application consists of various components and resources such as Enterprise JavaBeans, Servlets, JSPs, HTML files, XML files, etc. After application developers finish developing the various components, it is the administrator's job to put everything together into the WebSphere Environment. The administrator is responsible for making sure the application is installed correctly within WebSphere and its associated components (webserver, database servers etc.) so that remote clients are able to access it as planned. This course is a highly hands-on course that teaches students all the key aspects of the administrative tasks on the WebSphere Platform. Objectives Upon completion of the course, students will become familiar with these tasks:

Planning and installing WAS Deploying Enterprise Applications Assembling and Configuring new applications Changing or updating application contents Starting, stopping and pinging applications Securing applications Tuning and troubleshooting applications Clustering servers to do load-balancing, failovers and migration

Course Outline Introduction

Distributed Servers and Repositories

The WebSphere family Various WAS Editions The J2EE Platform What is new in WAS 6.x

Components and Configurations

Understand server profiles Installation of WAS Base server Base Server Architecture Base Server Components Installation of WAS Network Deployer Deployment Manager Cells, Nodes, Clusters Cluster Topologies for Best Practices

Network Deployment (WASND) Creating Cells Federating Nodes Configuration Repositories Repository: Cell, Nodes, Servers, Apps Repository: Network Deployment Repository: Deployment Manager Node and Cell Discovery serverindex.xml File Synchronization Managed Servers Managing remote Web Servers

WAS 6 Architecture

Clusters and Topologies

Administrative Console

Overview of Web Application Where the console resides Navigating the GUI Deploying and Configuring Enterprise Applications Application Server Properties Web Container EJB Container

Why Cluster? Creating Clusters Replication Adding servers to Clusters Cluster Management Network Dispatcher Vertical Scaling Horizontal Scaling MultiClustering

Administering Security Enterprise Application Deployment

Enterprise Application Preparation Setting up Resources Application Deployment Overview Application Deployment Options Web Container - Properties EJB Container - Properties

Application Server Toolkit (ASTK)

Security Overview WAS Security Architecture Security Model and Components User Registry Security Server and Collaborator Global Security Securing Admin Console Securing Applications Roles, Constraints, Resources Mapping Roles to Users and Groups

Adding EJB Modules Adding Web Modules Setting variables for Deployment Saving and Deploying the EAR

Troubleshooting and Monitoring

Administering Session Management

Session Management Features, Properties Session Scope Session Tracking Mechanism Session Management Persistence

PMI Tivoli Performance Viewer Performance Monitoring Servlet Console Messages Trace Facility Log Analyzer

Scripting Tools

BSF Mbeans wsadmin Jacl and Jython Configuring wsadmin wsadmin Objects AdminConfig, AdminControl wsadmin is Powerful Advanced wsadmin More wsadmin Overview of JMX