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Role
The WebSphere 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 J2EE 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.
Supplemental resources
Web reference - WebSphere Application Server InfoCenter
- Redbook – SG24-7304-00: WebSphere Application Server V6.1 System Management & Configuration
- Redbook – SG24-6316-01: WebSphere Application Server V6.1: Security Handbook
- Redbook – SG24-6392-00: WebSphere Application Server V6: Scalability and Performance Handbook
1. Core WebSphere Application Server administration skills
Objectives
After completing this step, students should be able to:
- Explain how WebSphere Application Server relates to the WebSphere family of products
- Describe the architectural concepts related to WebSphere Application Server V6.1
- Install and configure WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server (IHS)
- Explain the basic concepts of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
- Assemble and install server-side Java enterprise applications
- Use WebSphere Application Server administrative tools to configure and manage enterprise applications
- Configure security for server-side application resources
- Deploy applications in clustered environments
- View performance information about server and application components
- Use problem determination tools and log files to troubleshoot problems
2. Problem determination and troubleshooting skills
Objectives
After completing this step, students should be able to:
- Use the IBM Support Assistant
- Apply problem determination methodology
- Use problem determination tools and techniques
- Identify JVM-related problems
- Resolve database connection and configuration issue
- Resolve security configuration problems
- Determine application deployment problems
- Fix application server start failures
- Resolve Web services access issues
- Resolve messaging problems
- Resolve installation, update, and migration problems
3. Scripting and automation skills
Objectives
After completing this step, students should be able to:
- Describe the WebSphere Application Server support for scripting and automation
- Use Jython and the Application Server Toolkit (AST) to develop, test, and debug automation scripts
- Identify the administrative objects and programming APIs needed for administrative scripting
- Use the wsadmin tool to prototype and run scripts
- Write scripts to automate common WebSphere Application Server administration tasks
- Describe the use of Ant (Another Neat Tool) to automate tasks
- Use the JACL (Java Application Control Language) to Jython conversion tool
4. Multiplatform configuration skills
Objectives
After completing this step, students should be able to:
- Explain the architecture of WebSphere Application Server V6.1.
- Install WebSphere Application Server executables and profiles
- Federate nodes into a cell to create a real-world production environment
- Install and configure an enterprise application in a multi-platform distributed environment
- Manage WebSphere Application Server and enterprise application configurations using wsadmin
- Configure WebSphere security using the LDAP user registry
- Secure an enterprise application using the Application Server Toolkit (AST) V6.1
- Enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for the WebSphere Application Server
- Explain WebSphere workload management options
- Configure an enterprise application for workload management
- Configure WebSphere Platform Messaging and discuss options
- Use the cluster support provided by WebSphere Application Server to improve application throughput and availability
- Configure HTTP session persistence and define a session database
- Explain advanced system configurations
- Use the WebSphere Edge Components to configure Web server clustering
- Configure WebSphere to run as non-root
- Configure J2EE security
5. High availability, performance testing and monitoring skills
Objectives
After completing this step, students should be able to:
- Identify key performance metrics and the categories of tools needed to successfully monitor and tune application and system performance
- Utilize WebSphere Application Server's performance monitoring and tuning technologies and tools
- Apply best practices for performance monitoring and tuning
- Define an effective performance monitoring and