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Role
The system administrator performs the installation, configuration and day-to-day tasks associated with ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of a WebSphere runtime environment. This includes product installation, configuration and deployment of business applications, connecting to back-end resources and basic troubleshooting.
The system administrator is generally self-sufficient and able to perform most of the tasks involved in the role with limited assistance from peers, product documentation, and vendor support services.
Assumptions
It is assumed that the individual following this roadmap has basic skills in the following areas:
- Good understanding of the specific hardware and software components used in the organization, and the possible dependencies between these components
- Good understanding of the WebSphere Process Server programming model
- Good understanding of the J2EE application model, including EJBs, JSP, HTTP sessions, and servlets
- Experience in system administration on operating systems such as Windows XP, UNIX, Linux and z/OS
- Good understanding of basic Internet concepts such as firewalls, Web browsers, TCP/IP, SSL, and HTTP
- Basic knowledge of Web services such as SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL
- Experience in administration of WebSphere Application Server
Objectives
After completing this training, students should be able to:
- Install and configure WebSphere Process Server
- Describe the deployment considerations for WebSphere Process Server components
- Describe the various WebSphere Process Server high availability topologies and their selection criteria
- Create a WebSphere Process Server clustered environment
- Verify failover functionality in a clustered environment
- Configure the business process engine
- Configure and work with Business Space
- Deploy and manage business applications
- Work with human tasks
- Work with the administrative console and management tools
- Configure the Common Event Infrastructure
- Perform a deployment environment installation
- Perform basic troubleshooting
