This course teaches the basics of the administration and deployment of enterprise applications in the IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 Network Deployment environment. This course covers all of the topics required to administer a production WebSphere environment, including troubleshooting, security, databases, messaging, performance, scripting, web services, and clustering.
Topics
What you will learn
After completing this course, the student should be able to:
Audience
This course is designed for Webmasters and System Administrators who need to install, configure and maintain systems using WebSphere Application Server 8.5 Network Deployment Edition.
Chapter 1. Course Introduction
Chapter 2. Java EE and WebSphere Overview
Chapter 3. WebSphere Installation with Installation Manager
Chapter 4. Administration Console and Application Deployment
Single Server Admin Structure
Chapter 5. Web Server and Web Server Plug-in
Using a Web Server
Chapter 6. Troubleshooting
Chapter 7. WebSphere 8 HPEL Logging
New HPEL Logging Feature
Chapter 8. IBM Support Assistant
Chapter 9. JDBC and Data Sources
Chapter 10. JMS Overview and WebSphere MQ Configuration
Messaging Introduction
Chapter 11. JMS Using Default Messaging Provider
Service Integration Bus
Chapter 12. WebSphere Security
Security Overview
Chapter 13. Java EE Security
Authorization
Chapter 14. Web Service Administration
What is a Web Service?
Chapter 15. Performance Management
What Affects Performance
Chapter 16. Java Memory Management
Chapter 17. Memory Management in WebSphere
Chapter 18. Command Line Administration
Chapter 19. Jython Scripting Tools
Chapter 20. Network Deployment Architecture
Chapter 21. Web Server Management and Cluster Topology
Web Server Management
Chapter 22. Workload Management and Application State
Chapter 23. Overview of WebSphere Intelligent Management Features
Challenges to Address
Chapter 24. What's New in WebSphere Application Server 8.5 for Administrators
Chapter 25. Course Summary
The student should have good operational skills for Windows. Administration skills for a web server like Apache or IBM HTTP Server and knowledge of Java or web technology would also be beneficial although not required