WebSphere Application Server V6.1: System Management and Configuration

 

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WebSphere Application Server

  1. WebSphere Application Server
  2. Packaging
  3. Supported platforms and software
  4. Operating systems
  5. Web servers
  6. Database servers
  7. Directory servers

 

Technics

  1. System management overview
  2. System management in a stand-alone server environment
  3. System management in a distributed server environment
  4. Java Management Extensions (JMX)
  5. JMX architecture
  6. JMX distributed administration
  7. JMX MBeans
  8. JMX usage scenarios
  9. J2EE management
  10. Distributed administration
  11. Distributed process discovery
  12. Centralized changes to configuration and application data
  13. File synchronization
  14. Configuration and application data repository
  15. Repository directory structure
  16. Variable scoped files
  17. Application data files

 

Profiles

  1. Understanding
  2. Types
  3. Directory structure
  4. Building a system
  5. Stand-alone server environment
  6. Distributed server environment
  7. Creating profiles on distributed systems (non z/OS)
  8. Deployment manager profile
  9. Application server profile
  10. Cell profile
  11. Custom profile
  12. Federating a custom node to a cell
  13. New appserver on an existing node
  14. Federating an appserver profile to a cell
  15. z/OS systems
  16. Managing
  17. manageprofiles command
  18. Deleting
  19. Managing
  20. Starting a distributed server environment
  21. Stopping the distributed server environment
  22. Enabling process restart on failure

 

Administration

  1. Introducing the WebSphere administrative console
  2. Starting the administrative console
  3. Logging in to the administrative console
  4. Changing the administrative console session timeout
  5. The graphical interface
  6. Finding an item in the console
  7. Updating existing items
  8. Adding new items
  9. Removing items
  10. Starting and stopping items
  11. Using variables
  12. Saving work
  13. Getting help
  14. Securing the administrative console
  15. Working with the deployment manager
  16. Deployment manager configuration settings
  17. Starting and stopping the deployment manager
  18. Working with appservers
  19. Creating an appserver
  20. Viewing the status of an appserver
  21. Starting an appserver
  22. Stopping an appserver
  23. Viewing run time attributes of an appserver
  24. Customizing appservers
  25. Working with nodes
  26. Adding (federating) a node
  27. Removing a node
  28. Renaming a node
  29. Node agent synchronization
  30. Starting and stopping nodes
  31. Node groups
  32. Working with clusters
  33. Creating clusters
  34. Viewing cluster topology
  35. Managing clusters
  36. Working with virtual hosts
  37. Creating a virtual host
  38. Managing applications
  39. Using the administrative console to manage applications
  40. Installing an enterprise application
  41. Uninstalling an enterprise application
  42. Exporting an enterprise application
  43. Starting an enterprise application
  44. Stopping an enterprise application
  45. Preventing an enterprise application from starting on a server
  46. Viewing application details
  47. Finding a URL for a servlet or JSP
  48. Managing your configuration files
  49. Backing up a profile
  50. Restoring a profile
  51. Exporting and importing profiles

 

Administration with scripting

  1. Overview of WebSphere scripting
  2. Using wsadmin
  3. Jacl versus Jython
  4. Launching wsadmin
  5. Configuring wsadmin
  6. Command and script invocation
  7. Overview of wsadmin objects
  8. Management using wsadmin objects
  9. Common operational tasks using wsadmin
  10. General approach for operational tasks
  11. Examples of common administrative tasks
  12. Managing the deployment manager
  13. Managing nodes
  14. Managing appservers
  15. Managing enterprise applications
  16. Managing clusters
  17. Generating the Web server plug-in configuration
  18. Enabling tracing for WebSphere components
  19. Common configuration tasks
  20. General approach for configuration tasks
  21. Specific examples of WebSphere configuration tasks
  22. Help creating wsadmin scripts
  23. Using Java for administration
  24. Online resources

 

WebSphere resources

  1. WebSphere resources
  2. JDBC resources
  3. What are JDBC providers and data sources?
  4. WebSphere support for data sources
  5. Creating a data source
  6. Creating a JDBC provider
  7. Creating JDBC data source
  8. JCA resources
  9. WebSphere Application Server JCA support
  10. Installing and configuring resource adapters
  11. Configuring J2C connection factories
  12. Using resource adapters from an application
  13. JavaMail resources
  14. JavaMail sessions
  15. Configuring the mail provider
  16. Configuring JavaMail sessions
  17. Example code
  18. URL providers
  19. Configuring URL providers
  20. Configuring URLs
  21. URL provider sample
  22. Resource environment providers
  23. Resource environment references
  24. Configuring the resource environment provider
  25. Resource authentication
  26. More information

 

Web servers

  1. Web server support overview
  2. Request routing using the plug-in
  3. Web server and plug-in management
  4. Working with Web servers
  5. Defining nodes and Web servers
  6. Viewing the status of a Web server
  7. Starting and stopping a Web server
  8. IBM HTTP Server remote administration
  9. Mapping modules to servers
  10. Working with the plug-in configuration file
  11. Regenerating the plug-in configuration file
  12. Propagating the plug-in configuration file
  13. Modifying the plug-in request routing options

 

Asynchronous messaging

  1. Messaging concepts
  2. Loose coupling
  3. Messaging types
  4. Destinations
  5. Messaging models
  6. Messaging patterns
  7. JMS
  8. JMS API history
  9. JMS providers
  10. JMS domains
  11. JMS administered objects
  12. JMS and JNDI
  13. JMS Connections
  14. JMS sessions
  15. JMS messages
  16. JMS message producers
  17. JMS message consumers
  18. JMS exception handling
  19. Application Server Facilities
  20. JMS and J2EE
  21. Messaging in the J2EE Connector Architecture
  22. Message endpoints
  23. MessageEndpointFactory
  24. Resource adapters
  25. JMS ActivationSpec JavaBean
  26. Message endpoint deployment
  27. Message endpoint activation
  28. Message delivery
  29. Administered objects
  30. Message-driven beans
  31. Message-driven bean types
  32. Client view of a message-driven bean
  33. Message-driven bean life cycle
  34. Message-driven beans and transactions
  35. Message-driven bean activation configuration properties
  36. Associating a message-driven bean with a destination
  37. Message-driven bean best practices
  38. Managing WebSphere JMS providers
  39. Managing the default messaging JMS provider
  40. Managing the WebSphere MQ JMS provider
  41. Managing a generic JMS provider
  42. Configuring WebSphere JMS administered objects
  43. Common administration properties
  44. Configuring the default messaging JMS provider
  45. Configuring the WebSphere MQ JMS provider
  46. Configuring listener ports
  47. Configuring a generic JMS provider
  48. Connecting to a service integration bus
  49. JMS client run time environment
  50. Controlling messaging engine selection
  51. Load balancing bootstrapped clients
  52. References and resources

 

Default messaging provider

  1. Service Integration Bus
  2. Messaging engines
  3. Message stores
  4. Destinations
  5. Mediations
  6. Foreign buses
  7. SIB service
  8. Message stores
  9. Exception destinations
  10. Service integration bus links
  11. WebSphere MQ links
  12. WebSphere MQ Servers
  13. Cluster bus members for high availability
  14. Cluster bus members for workload management
  15. Partitioned queues
  16. JMS clients connecting into a cluster of messaging engines
  17. Preferred servers and core group policies
  18. Best practices
  19. One server in the cell is a member of one bus
  20. Every server in the cell is a member of the same bus
  21. A single cluster bus member and one messaging engine
  22. A cluster bus member with multiple messaging engines
  23. Mixture of cluster and server bus members
  24. Multiple buses in a cell
  25. Service integration bus and message-driven beans
  26. Message-driven beans connecting to the bus
  27. MDBs and clusters
  28. Service integration bus security
  29. Problem determination
  30. Configuration and management
  31. SIB service configuration
  32. Creating a bus
  33. Configuring bus properties
  34. Enabling bus security
  35. Adding a bus member
  36. Creating a queue destination
  37. Creating a topic space destination
  38. Creating an alias destination
  39. Adding messaging engines to a cluster
  40. Setting up preferred servers
  41. Setting up a foreign bus link to a service integration bus
  42. Setting up a foreign bus link to an MQ queue manager
  43. Creating a foreign destination

 

Session management

  1. HTTP session management
  2. Session manager configuration
  3. Session management properties
  4. Accessing session management properties
  5. Session scope
  6. Session identifiers
  7. Choosing a session tracking mechanism
  8. SSL ID tracking
  9. Cookies
  10. URL rewriting
  11. Local sessions
  12. General properties for session management
  13. Session affinity
  14. Session affinity and failover
  15. Persistent session management
  16. Enabling database persistence
  17. Memory-to-memory replication
  18. Session management tuning
  19. Persistent sessions and non-serializable J2EE objects
  20. Larger DB2 page sizes and database persistence
  21. Single and multi-row schemas (database persistence)
  22. Contents written to the persistent store using a database
  23. Invalidating sessions
  24. Session listeners
  25. Session security
  26. Session performance considerations
  27. Session size
  28. Reducing persistent store I/O
  29. Multirow persistent sessions: Database persistence
  30. Managing your session database connection pool
  31. Session database tuning
  32. Stateful session bean failover
  33. Enabling stateful session bean failover
  34. Stateful session bean failover considerations

 

WebSphere naming

  1. Features
  2. WebSphere naming architecture
  3. Components
  4. JNDI support
  5. JNDI bindings
  6. Federated name space
  7. Local name space structure
  8. Interoperable Naming Service (INS)
  9. Bootstrap ports
  10. CORBA URLs
  11. Distributed CosNaming
  12. Configured bindings
  13. Types of objects
  14. Types of binding references
  15. Initial contexts
  16. Setting initial root context
  17. Federation of name spaces
  18. Foreign cell bindings
  19. Interoperability
  20. WebSphere V4.0 EJB clients
  21. WebSphere V4.0 server
  22. EJB clients hosted by non-WebSphere environment
  23. Examples
  24. Single server
  25. Two single servers on the same box
  26. Network Deployment appservers on the same box
  27. WebSphere Application Server V4 client
  28. Naming tools
  29. dumpNameSpace
  30. Configuration
  31. Name space bindings
  32. Foreign cell bindings
  33. CORBA naming service users and groups

 

Class loaders

  1. A brief introduction to Java class loaders
  2. WebSphere class loaders overview
  3. WebSphere extensions class loader
  4. Application and Web module class loaders
  5. Handling JNI code
  6. Configuring WebSphere for class loaders
  7. Class loader policies
  8. Class loading/delegation mode
  9. Shared libraries
  10. Class loader viewer
  11. Learning class loaders by example
  12. Step 1: Simple Web module packaging
  13. Step 2: Adding an EJB module and Utility jar
  14. Step 3: Changing the WAR class loader delegation mode
  15. Step 4: Sharing utility JARs using shared libraries
  16. Additional class loader diagnostics

 

Packaging applications

  1. Plants by WebSphere sample application
  2. Plants by WebSphere resources used
  3. Packaging using the Application Server Toolkit
  4. Import source code
  5. Working with deployment descriptors
  6. Setting application bindings
  7. Defining EJB JNDI names
  8. Binding EJB and resource references
  9. Defining data sources for entity beans
  10. Setting the context root for Web modules
  11. IBM EJB extensions: EJB caching options
  12. EJB container caching option for entity beans
  13. EJB container caching option for stateful session beans
  14. Stateful EJB timeout option
  15. IBM EJB extensions: EJB access intents
  16. Transaction isolation levels overview
  17. Concurrency control
  18. Using EJB 2.x access intents
  19. Using read-ahead hints
  20. Tracing access intents behavior
  21. IBM EJB extensions: inheritance relationships
  22. IBM Web module extensions
  23. File serving servlet
  24. Web application auto reload
  25. Serve servlets by class name
  26. Default error page
  27. Directory browsing
  28. JSP attributes
  29. Automatic HTTP request and response encoding
  30. IBM EAR extensions: Sharing session context
  31. Exporting the PlantsByWebSphere EAR file
  32. WebSphere Enhanced EAR
  33. Configuring a WebSphere Enhanced EAR
  34. Packaging recommendations

 

Deploying applications

  1. Preparing the environment
  2. Creating the Plants by WebSphere DB2 database
  3. Creating an environment variable
  4. Creating the Plants by WebSphere appserver
  5. Defining the Plants by WebSphere virtual host
  6. Creating the virtual host for IBM HTTP Server and Apache
  7. Creating a DB2 JDBC provider and data source
  8. Generating deployment code
  9. Using EJBDeploy command-line tool
  10. Deploying the application
  11. Using a bindings file
  12. Deploying application clients
  13. Defining application client bindings
  14. Launching the J2EE client
  15. Updating applications
  16. Replacing an entire application EAR file
  17. Replacing or adding an application module
  18. Replacing or adding single files in an application or module
  19. Removing application content
  20. Performing multiple updates to an application or module
  21. Rolling out application updates to a cluster
  22. Hot deployment and dynamic reloading
  23. Related publications
  24. IBM Redbooks
  25. Other publications
  26. Online resources
  27. How to get IBM Redbooks
  28. Help from IBM
  29. Index