WAS Administration 6.1 and 7
1. WAS product family overview
What is WAS and its functionality?
Some key differences between the version 5, 6, 6.1 and 7.0
Product packaging
Express/ Base / Network Deployment – Overview
2. WAS Installation and Fix Pack Upgrades
Hardware and Software pre-requisites
Installation overview
Installation Environments
Profile Types and their details
Creating profiles using command line tool
Pre-install tasks
Installation verification
Silent Installation – Profiles
V6 Install – Network Deployment and express
WAS Directory Structure
Backup Config task
Uninstall
Installing fix packs, cumulative fixes using Update Installer
Silent Installation of Fix packs using response files
Trouble shooting the fix packs installation problems
3. Architectural Overview and System Management
Standalone and Distributed Server Overview
Express / Base / ND
WAS basics
Repository Directory Structure
JDBC Providers
Data Sources
JAAS Configuration
Application Data Files
Build cell – add / remove nodes
Cell, deployment manager, node and node agent
Creating and Managing Profiles
Manage Generic Servers and Node Groups
Enhanced EAR
Managed Nodes vs Un-Managed nodes
File Synchronization
Defining Virtual hosts
Command line tools
Server Commands
4. Administrative Console
Starting the Admin Console
Logging into the Admin Console
Administrative Console areas
Administrative Console Preferences and Filters
Finding the items in the Console
Updating the existing objects
Adding new objects
Removing objects
Starting and Stopping objects
Saving to master repository
Backing up the profile configuration
Restoring the configuration
5. Working with Standalone Application Server
Managing the Application Server Profile
Application Server Configuration
Viewing the status of the application server
Staring and Stopping of an application server
Viewing runtime attributes of an application server
Customizing application servers
6. Application Install
Install tasks
Creating J2C authentication alias
Virtual hosts creation and configuration
Creating JDBC resources
Creating data sources
Enterprise application installation
Managing applications
Start and Stop applications
Viewing installed applications
Configuration JVM logs
Enabling traces
Viewing the EJB modules
Viewing WEB modules
J2EE application flow
7. Managing Web Server with WAS
IBM HTTP Server as unmanaged node
IBM HTTP Server on a managed node
IBM HTTP Server administration overview
IBM HTTP Server log files overview
Web Server instance start/stop
Web Server Custom plugin-cfg.xml
Managing plugin-cfg.xml files
Managing Web Server plug-in properties
Propagating the plug-in configurations
Web Server configuration file details (httpd)
8. Work Load Management and High Availability
What is clustering?
Horizontal and Vertical clustering
Distributed Server Configuration
Creating and configuring the cluster
Basic WLM request routing mechanism
Configure Virtual Host and Host aliases
Federation of nodes in ND
IBM HTTP Server
Viewing the status of cluster
Staring and Stopping cluser and node agent
Edge Components, Http Server, Web Container and EJB Container Failover
HTTP session management, session affinity and session persistence
9. WebSphere MQ and JMS Meachenism
WebSphere MQ and basic flow
Queues Managers and its objects
Distributed Queuing Mechanism
Channels – MQI and Message channels
10. WAS Security Mechanism
WAS security overview
Java 2 security for applications
JAAS
User registries
SSL
11. Troubleshooting
WebSphere Application Server logs
Logfile types and locations
Configuring and viewing logs at runtime
Enabling Logging and Tracing
Interpreting the JVM logs
Process logs
Installation related logs
Generating Heap dumps and Core dumps
Enabling Verbose Garbage Collection
12. Performance Monitoring
PMI overview
PMI data modules and counters
Enabling Performance monitoring infrastructure
WAS Dynamic cache
Performance Adviser
13. WSAdmin Scripting
Ws admin vs administration Console
Ws admin functions and its connection type
Invoking ws admin
Ws admin administrative objects ( AdminControl, AdminConfig, AdminTask, AdminApp, Help)
Jython/Jacl basics
14. unix commands of WAS related and trouble shooting.
1. WAS product family overview
What is WAS and its functionality?
Some key differences between the version 5, 6, 6.1 and 7.0
Product packaging
Express/ Base / Network Deployment – Overview
2. WAS Installation and Fix Pack Upgrades
Hardware and Software pre-requisites
Installation overview
Installation Environments
Profile Types and their details
Creating profiles using command line tool
Pre-install tasks
Installation verification
Silent Installation – Profiles
V6 Install – Network Deployment and express
WAS Directory Structure
Backup Config task
Uninstall
Installing fix packs, cumulative fixes using Update Installer
Silent Installation of Fix packs using response files
Trouble shooting the fix packs installation problems
3. Architectural Overview and System Management
Standalone and Distributed Server Overview
Express / Base / ND
WAS basics
Repository Directory Structure
JDBC Providers
Data Sources
JAAS Configuration
Application Data Files
Build cell – add / remove nodes
Cell, deployment manager, node and node agent
Creating and Managing Profiles
Manage Generic Servers and Node Groups
Enhanced EAR
Managed Nodes vs Un-Managed nodes
File Synchronization
Defining Virtual hosts
Command line tools
Server Commands
4. Administrative Console
Starting the Admin Console
Logging into the Admin Console
Administrative Console areas
Administrative Console Preferences and Filters
Finding the items in the Console
Updating the existing objects
Adding new objects
Removing objects
Starting and Stopping objects
Saving to master repository
Backing up the profile configuration
Restoring the configuration
5. Working with Standalone Application Server
Managing the Application Server Profile
Application Server Configuration
Viewing the status of the application server
Staring and Stopping of an application server
Viewing runtime attributes of an application server
Customizing application servers
6. Application Install
Install tasks
Creating J2C authentication alias
Virtual hosts creation and configuration
Creating JDBC resources
Creating data sources
Enterprise application installation
Managing applications
Start and Stop applications
Viewing installed applications
Configuration JVM logs
Enabling traces
Viewing the EJB modules
Viewing WEB modules
J2EE application flow
7. Managing Web Server with WAS
IBM HTTP Server as unmanaged node
IBM HTTP Server on a managed node
IBM HTTP Server administration overview
IBM HTTP Server log files overview
Web Server instance start/stop
Web Server Custom plugin-cfg.xml
Managing plugin-cfg.xml files
Managing Web Server plug-in properties
Propagating the plug-in configurations
Web Server configuration file details (httpd)
8. Work Load Management and High Availability
What is clustering?
Horizontal and Vertical clustering
Distributed Server Configuration
Creating and configuring the cluster
Basic WLM request routing mechanism
Configure Virtual Host and Host aliases
Federation of nodes in ND
IBM HTTP Server
Viewing the status of cluster
Staring and Stopping cluser and node agent
Edge Components, Http Server, Web Container and EJB Container Failover
HTTP session management, session affinity and session persistence
9. WebSphere MQ and JMS Meachenism
WebSphere MQ and basic flow
Queues Managers and its objects
Distributed Queuing Mechanism
Channels – MQI and Message channels
10. WAS Security Mechanism
WAS security overview
Java 2 security for applications
JAAS
User registries
SSL
11. Troubleshooting
WebSphere Application Server logs
Logfile types and locations
Configuring and viewing logs at runtime
Enabling Logging and Tracing
Interpreting the JVM logs
Process logs
Installation related logs
Generating Heap dumps and Core dumps
Enabling Verbose Garbage Collection
12. Performance Monitoring
PMI overview
PMI data modules and counters
Enabling Performance monitoring infrastructure
WAS Dynamic cache
Performance Adviser
13. WSAdmin Scripting
Ws admin vs administration Console
Ws admin functions and its connection type
Invoking ws admin
Ws admin administrative objects ( AdminControl, AdminConfig, AdminTask, AdminApp, Help)
Jython/Jacl basics
14. unix commands of WAS related and trouble shooting.
