WebSphere 8.5 Administration Course

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 Administration Book

Update: I no longer maintain this course. You may find similar or other courses on Udemy.

It’s my second book on WebSphere and great pleasure to announce “WebSphere Application Server 8.5 ND Administration Course” book with Author Steven Robinson.  As a Co Author, I enjoyed writing and hope you may enjoy reading too. This course provides the student with the necessary skills to handle all sorts of administrative tasks on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment version 8.5. The course material is practical and “hands-on” and covers a wide range of topics derived from industry experience. 

We have designed this course to include all the necessary instructions to install the product, try out various administrative tasks and can be used easily to refresh your knowledge after the course has been attended. The course also contains over 900 pages of “How To” guides and more than 300 Power Point slides along with Labs, resources and questions and answers

This book is available on  Redbooks.

This course provides the student with the necessary skill set to handle all sorts of administrative tasks on WebSphere Application Server 8.5 ND. The course material follows a “Do-it-yourself” approach and provides all the necessary instructions to install the product, try out various administrative tasks and learn.

Note: With an instructor we can tremendously speed up the learning process. Instructor learning, however is a private consultancy or you can license the course ware for re-sales purposes for your own training needs. Contact us if you are requiring more than self study, however please consider  we are a professional training company. Though our coursware is affordable, we do not provide 1-2-1 training for the same price as self-study.

The following are the topics covered.

• Application Server Overview

• Module 1 – Install & Uninstall

• Module 2 – Logs and Configuration

• Module 3 – IBM HTTP Server & WAS Plug-in

• Module 4 – Vertical Scaled Cluster Creation

• Module 5 – JDBC

• Module 6 – JMS

• Module 7 – Application Deployment

• Module 8 – Administrative Scripting

• Module 9 – Job Manager

• Module 10 – SSL Part I

• Module 11 – SSL Part II

• Module 12 – Health Management

• Module 13 – JVM Tuning

• Module 14 – High availability

• Module 15 – Administrative Agent

• Module 16 – Security

• Module 17 – Security Auditing

• Module 18 – Administration Tools

• Module 19 – CIM

• Module 20 – Liberty Profile

By completing this course, the student will be able to administer WAS through its complete life cycle i.e. install WAS, deploy applications on WAS, configure WAS for different types of requirements and uninstall WAS. The course stresses the importance of automation through scripting and provides detailed examples in this area. Also the course highlights best practices and gives pointers to pitfalls.

Duration:
Ideal duration for an instructor lead course: 5 days
Duration for self-learning: 4 weeks

Audience:
Fair knowledge of JEE concepts & Unix commands is mandatory. Prior experience in administering any JEE application server will speed up the learning process.

Course Detail:

Application Server Overview

         Need for application servers

         WAS management features

         WAS flavours

         WAS Topologies

         WAS 8.5 new features

Module 1 – Install & Uninstall

         Installation planning

         Product installation in GUI and silent mode

         Profile creation in GUI and silent mode

         Uninstalling product in GUI and silent mode

Module 2 – Logs and Configuration

         Understanding product directory structure

         Various log files written by WAS

         HPEL

         Configuring WAS classloaders

Module 3 – IBM HTTP Server & WAS Plug-in

         Installing IHS and WebSphere Plug-in

         Creating Web server definition

         Plug-in generation and propagation

Module 4 – Vertical Scaled Cluster Creation

         Basic terminology

         Federating nodes into DMGR cell

         Vertical and Horizontal clustering

         Node synchronization

         Assigning weights to cluster members

         Cluster level operations

Module 5 – JDBC

         JDBC providers

         Creating data source & testing connection

         Connection pool settings

Module 6 – JMS

         Why JMS?

         Messaging models

         JMS – administered objects

         WAS JMS – High level picture

         Service Integration Bus

         File store and Data store

         WebSphere MQ messaging

         WebSphere MQ Link

Module 7 – Application Deployment

         Understanding virtual hosts

         Deployment – High level picture

         Application targets

         Deployment using admin console

         Monitored directory deployment

Module 8 – Administrative Scripting

         Using ws_ant

         Introduction to Jython

         How wsadmin works?

         Profile scripts

         The wsadmin.properties file

         Using command assistance

         Property file based configuration management

Module 9 – Job Manager

         Creating Job Manager Profile

         Registering DMGR and base nodes to Job Manager

         Creating and scheduling jobs for execution

Module 10 – SSL Part I

         SSL Concepts

         Configure SSL between IHS and WAS

         The ikeyman tool

Module 11 – SSL Part II

         Inbound SSL

         SSL Configuration object

         Outbound SSL

         Monitoring Certificate Expiry

Module 12 – Health Management

         Health Policy

         Health Action

         Health Controller

         Creating Health Policies

Module 13 – Monitoring and Tuning

         Analyzing Thread Dumps

         Analyzing Heap Dumps

         Dump Agents

         JVM Tuning

         Analyzing GC log messages using GCMV

         Performance monitoring infrastructure (PMI)

Module 14 – High availability

         Understanding session affinity

         Deploying applications in a cluster

         Clustering and JMS

         Clustering and JDBC

         Clustering and EJB requests

         Understand Session replication & persistence

         Dynamic Cluster

Module 15 – Administrative Agent

         Creating administrative agent profile

         Registering & Deregistering application server nodes

         Working with administrative agent console

Module 16 – Security

         Introduction to WAS security

         User, Group and Role

         Authentication and Authorization

         Securing different types of applications

Module 17 – Security Auditing

         Configure security auditing

         Signing audit records

         Encrypting audit records

         Repository Checkpoint

Module 18 – Administration Tools

         EarExpander.sh

         Collector.sh

         Visual Configuration Explorer

         The applyPerfTuningTemplate.py too

Module 19 – CIM

         CIM Overview

         Job Targets

         Using Sudo

         Job Types

         Job Creation Wizard

         Submitting CIM jobs from command line

Module 20 – Liberty Profile

         Liberty Profile Overview

         Liberty Profile Installation

         Setting Liberty Server runtime

         Deploying an Application

         Securing Liberty Server

         Liberty Server Administration