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Role
The System Administrator ensures that all IT services and infrastructures meet operational targets. System Administrators are expected to perform the installation, configuration, and day-to-day tasks associated with the smooth and efficient operation of an IBM Sterling B2B Integrator environment. In addition, the System Administrators understand the complexities of business process design and maintenance, analyze architecture and security issues, and perform advanced troubleshooting. System Administrators identify performance bottlenecks and provide administrative solutions where appropriate.
Assumptions
It is assumed that the individual following this roadmap has basic skills in the following areas:
- Working knowledge of underlying operating system platforms
- Working knowledge of underlying databases
- Application Server administration skills
Objectives
After completing this training, students should be able to:
- Summarize electronic commerce, e-business, and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) concepts and components
- Read and interpret the X12 Standards manuals, and describe each of the standards supported and why we use them
- Describe the eXtensible Markup Lanuage (XML) structure, capabilities, XML parsers, and style sheets
- Create XML documents, read and write document type definitions (DTD)
- Explain how XML and Electronic Data Interchange work together to transmits data between trading partners
- Navigate the different Sterling Integrator interfaces
- Install and navigate the Graphical Process Modeler (GPM), and define major elements such as menus, stencils, and the workspace
- Define business processes and build process models using the GPM
- Describe the components that make up the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML), including activities, process rules, and element editors
- Define the features and structures of the XML Path Language (XPath)
- Create, check in, check out, implement, assign rules and conditions, archive, control versions of, delete, restore, and troubleshoot business processes
- Define service management, services, and adapters
- Differentiate between services, adapters, and activities as they relate to building business processes
- Configure a business process using the message output options
- Apply the Assign Service along with DOM or Doc features in a business process
- Create a business process to capture errors and to notify the user of an error
- Create a business process to manage 997s (Functional Acknowledgments)
- Create a business process to send data to different storage locations
- Use the JDBC Adapter to create a business process to receive configuration values from a database
- Identify and solve basic performance related problems
- Identify potential performance problems areas in the Sterling B2B Integrator architecture
- Describe the purpose of the Dashboard panes and portals and configure the Dashboard
- Manage Sterling B2B Integrator permissions, user accounts, and groups
- Configure business process check in options, use best practices for business process design, and apply modeling strategies, and analyze detailed reports to increase processing efficiency
- Identify, test, and analyze performance, memory, and cache-related problems
- Use the Performance Tuning Utility to test a system and to adjust performance parameters to increase performance
- Manually modify properties to increase performance
- Create a Performance Statistics Report and analyze a business process and system process activity data to modify the business process and system
- Use monitoring and diagnostic tools to monitor system status and identify errors on a server
- Use the Sterling B2B Integrator based monitoring and diagnostic tools to troubleshoot and analyze problems
- Use services to maintain clean up the Sterling B2B Integrator system
- Describe the scripts and files in the bin directory
- Describe the planning phase environment and key issues