Day 1
Introduction to Web and Web Application Server
- Introduction to WebSphere Application Server
- Application Deployment (Install, Update, Backup, Remove)
- Application and Application Servers Operations (Start, Stop, Restart)
Day 2
- Application and Application Servers Monitoring
- Awareness of Log files
- Introduction to Web and Web Application Server
- Introduction to WebSphere Application Server and its Family products
- Introduction to WebSphere Application Server Architecture
Day 3
- Introduction of WAS Profiles, DMGR, Cell, Node, Node agent, JVMs
- Installation and Configuration of WebSphere Application Server
- Application Deployment (Install, Update, Backup, Remove)
Day 4
- Application and Application Servers Operations (Start, Stop, Restart)
- Introduction to classes/shared libraries, scope, JDBC, Messaging, JVMs, Virtual hosts, Module Managements
- Application and Application Servers Monitoring, View performance information about server and application components
- Basic of problem determination and troubleshooting, Problem determination tools and log files to troubleshoot problems.
Intermediate Level
Day 5
- Introduction of WebSphere Application Server Product Family (Editions)
- Introduction of WebSphere Application Server Architecture
- Installation and Configuration of WAS Product Family
Day 6
- Management of WAS Profiles, DMGR, Cell, Node, Node agent, JVMs,
- Introduction to core group, node group, clusters, DCS
- Configure security
- Deploy applications in clustered environments
Day 7
- View performance information about server and application components
- Problem determination and troubleshooting, Problem determination tools and log files to troubleshoot problems. Use the IBM Support Assistant Apply problem determination methodology. Use problem determination tools and techniques.
- Identify and resolve the JVM-related, database connection and configuration, security configuration, Web services access, messaging problems
Day 8
- Determine application deployment problems
- Fix application server start failures , installation, update, and migration problems
- 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
Expert Level
Day 9
- Architecture Planning, Design, and Implementation
- Advance configuration of Core Group, Node Group, DCS
- High availability, performance testing and monitoring
- Best practices for performance monitoring and tuning
Day 10
- 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
- Define an effective performance monitoring and tuning strategy
Day 11
- Understand WebSphere Workload Manager (WLM), failover, and HA Manager
- Configuration of horizontal and vertical scaling
- Configuration of load balancer and caching proxyStress-test all the different configurations
Day 12
- Configuring HA Manager policies and transaction log failover
- Execute load tests using Rational Performance Tester (RPT)
- Advance troubleshooting
