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