The document outlines the content of a Web Sphere Application Server Administration course, which covers topics such as WAS installation, configuration, management, security, troubleshooting, performance monitoring, and scripting. The course also addresses administrative responsibilities and tools for ticketing and monitoring IT systems based on ITIL processes.

1. Web Sphere Application Server Administration (7.0 and 8.5): Akira IT
COURSE CONTENT
1.WAS product family overview.
• What is WAS and its functionality.
• Some Key differences between the version 6.0 & 6.1, 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5
• Product packaging.
• Express/Base/Network Deployment - overview.
2. WAS Installation.
• Hardware and software pre-requisites.
• Installation overview.
• Installation Environments.
• Profile Types and their details.
• Creating profiles using command line tool.
• Pre-install tasks.
• Installation verification.
• WAS Install - Network Deployment and Base.

2. • WAS Directory structure.
• Backup Config Task.
• Uninstall.
3. Architectural Overview and System Management.
• Standalone and Distributed server overview.
• Base/ Express/ ND.
• WAS Basics.
• Repository Directory Structure.
• JDBC providers.
• Data Sources.
• JAAS configuration.
• Application Data Files.
• Build cell- add/remove Nodes.
• Cell, deployment manager, node and node agent.
• Creating and Managing profiles.
• Managed node groups.
• Enhance EAR.
• Managed Nodes vs Un managed Nodes.
• File Synchronization.
• Defining Virtual hosts.
• Command line tools.
• Server Commands.
4. Administrative Console.
• Starting the Admin Console.
• Logging into the Admin Console.

3. • Administrative console areas.
• Administrative console preferences and Filters.
• Finding components in Administrative console.
• Updating the components of Administrative console.
• Adding new objects to Administrative Console.
• Removing existed objects from Administrative console.
• Starting and stopping objects of Administrative console.
• Saving work to Master Repository.
• Backing up the profile configuration.
• Restoring the configuration.
5. Working with Standalone Application Server.
• Managing the Application server profile.
• Application Server Configuration.
• Viewing the status of the Application server.
• Starting and Stopping the Application server.
• Viewing the runtime attributes of an application server.
• customizing the application servers.
6. Application Install.
• Installation Tasks.
• Creating J2C authentication alias.
• Virtual Hosts creation and configuration.
• Creating JDBC resources.
• Creating Data sources.
• Enterprise Application Installation.
• Managing Applications.

4. • Start and Stop Applications.
• Viewing Installed Applications.
• Viewing the EJB modules.
• Viewing the WEB modules.
• J2EE Application Flow.
7. Managing Webserver with WAS.
• IBM HTTP SERVER as Managed Node.
• IBM HTTP SERVER as Un-managed Node.
• Starting and stopping the Webserver.
• Webserver, Custom plugin-cfg.xml.
• Workflow of plug-in file.
• Managing plugin-cfg.xml files.
• Managing Web server plug-in properties.
• Generating Custom plug-in and propagating.
8. Work Load Management & High Availability.
• What is clustering?
• Types of Clustering.
• Horizontal Clustering vs Vertical Clustering.
• Creating and Configuring the Cluster.
• Basic WLM request routing mechanism.
• Configure Virtual Host and Host Aliases.
• Federation of Nodes in ND.
• Viewing the status of the cluster.
• Starting and stopping Clusters and Cluster members.
• Edge Components, HTTP server, Web container and EJB container Failover.

5. 9. JMS and SIB Mechanism.
• WebSphere messaging and basic flow.
• Queues, connection Factory and Destinations.
• SIBus and ME's in standalone and ND.
• Introduction to WebSphere MQ.
10. WAS Security Mechanisms.
• Introduction To Security.
• Security Levels.
• Enabling Global Security, Administrative
Security, Application Security.
• SSL Configuration.
• User Creation & Interpreting.
11. Troubleshooting
• WebSphere Application Server Logs.
• Log File Types and locations.
• Configuring and Viewing logs at runtime.
• Enabling Logging and Tracing.
• Interpreting the JVM Logs.
• Process Logs.
• Procedure to Generate Heap and Thread Dumps.
• Installation related Trouble shooting / Tips.
• Enable Verbose Garbage Collection.
12. Performance Monitoring.
• Performance monitoring infrastructure.
• JVM Counters.

6. • Work Load Management Counters.
• JDBC connection pool counters.
13. WSADMIN Scripting.
• WSADMIN vs Administrative Console.
• WSADMIN functions and its connection type.
• Invoking WSADMIN.
• WSADMIN administrative objects.
• Introduction to JACL/Jython.
14. Real Time Environment
Web Sphere Admin Responsibilities
About Ticketing & Monitoring tools
ITIL(Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Process
Types of Ticket
Severity Levels
15. Resume Preparation & Interview guidance
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