BEA ALBPM 6.0 Administration

Description:

This course provides System Administrators with the knowledge to install and administer AquaLogic BPM (ALBPM) Enterprise. In this hands-on course, students learn the architecture of both Enterprise Standalone and Enterprise J2EE and how to deploy in various different configurations. Students use their own Enterprise installations to create engines, create and assign roles to participants, publish and deploy processes into production, and more. They also configure Process Monitoring and Process Archiving and learn tuning and troubleshooting skills. By the end of the course, all students have a solid foundation for implementing and maintaining ALBPM Enterprise, both Standalone and J2EE. Students can choose whether to perform the labs using either ALBPM Enterprise Standalone or ALBPM Enterprise J2EE software on Windows.

Objectives:

• Outline the architecture of ALBPM Enterprise Standalone and J2EE
• Install ALBPM Enterprise
• Access user data from LDAP
• Create an organizational structure by creating and assigning roles to participants
• Publish and deploy a project
• Run a business process in production
• Republish updated versions of a project
• Create External Resources
• Configure Process Monitoring
• Configure Process Archiving
• Configure a backup engine for failover on a Standalone deployment
• Use Ant Tasks to automate deployment and management
• Create a Process Execution Engine
• Tune and troubleshoot ALBPM Enterprise
• Configure ALBPM Enterprise on a J2EE cluster

Prerequisites:

Required Prerequisites:
BEA WebLogic Server 9/10: System Administration (if you are a J2EE customer)
ALBPM Foundations

Topics:

Architectural Overview
Define the ALBPM Solution
Outline the architecture of ALBPM Enterprise
Describe how data is stored by ALBPM Enterprise
Outline different deployment strategies

Installing ALBPM Components
Install ALBPM Studio
Install and configure ALBPM Enterprise Standalone or Enterprise WebLogic
View log files
List the components ALBPM creates on and deploys to WebLogic

Setting Up the ALBPM Organization
View organizational data stored in LDAP through ALBPM
Create ALBPM roles
Assign roles to groups and participants in the process

Publishing and Deploying Projects
Export a project from ALBPM Studio
Publish and deploy a project

Running a Business Process
Start a Process Execution Engine
View a Process Execution Engine Startup Log
Participate in a running process using the WorkSpace

Versioning Projects
Publish a project with automatic versioning
Manually change a project version
View project version history
View project deployment history

Integrating External Resources
Create an External Resource
Create an External Process

Configuring Process Monitoring
Configure Process Monitoring to store both historical and near real-time monitoring data
Create the databases required for Process Monitoring
Install and start the Process Monitoring service
Set configuration parameters for troubleshooting

Configuring Process Archiving
Configure the Process Execution Engine to archive processes
Create the Archive database
Redeploy the process with archiving enabled
Enable the Archive Viewer Web application
View Archives using the Archive Viewer

Configuring Engine Failover
Configure a backup Process Execution Engine
Add Backup Engine to the Primary Engine Location
Verify the Failover process
Deploy Enterprise J2EE to a Cluster

Automating Deployment and Management with Ant Scripts
List the Ant requirements for working with ALBPM
Create Ant scripts to automate ALBPM administrative tasks

Miscellaneous Topics
Create Holiday and Calendar rules
Apply a Calendar rule to an Organizational Unit
View an Audit Trail
Configure Auditing

Tuning a Process Execution Engine
Tune a Process Execution Engine
Tune the WorkSpace
Tune the J2EE Application Server

Troubleshooting ALBPM Enterprise
View the Process Execution Engine log
View other ALBPM log files
Obtain an Engine Thread Dump
Run the HTTP Debugger
Troubleshoot ALBPM problems