BEA WebLogic Server 9/10: System Administration

Description:

This course trains system administrators and data center personnel on techniques for installing, configuring, deploying, and securing distributed, clustered systems deployed on BEA WebLogic Server 10. This training focuses on techniques for building high-availability, clustered configurations to ensure applications uptime of 99.999%. Methods for hardening the implementation to provide reliable security are also emphasized. Students will be able to ensure Quality of Service for large scale J2EE applications hosted on BEA WebLogic Server 10.

Learn To:

• Ensure Quality of Service (QoS) for large scale J2EE applications
• Create highly secure production environments
• Manage deployed applications through their lifecycle

Objectives:

• Ensure quality of service for large scale J2EE applications hosted on BEA WebLogic Server 10
• Incorporate authentication, authorization, auditing and non-repudiation services across the enterprise using BEA WebLogic Server 10
• Install BEA WebLogic Server 10 using multiple techniques
• Configure a clustered BEA WebLogic Server 10 environment
• Write custom scripts to automate repeatable and tedious tasks
• Create and manage development, staging, QA, and production environments
• Deploy J2EE application modules and libraries using a variety of techniques
• Manage applications through the entire production lifecycle

Prerequisites:

Required Prerequisites:
TCP/IP networking knowledge of client/server concepts

Suggested Prerequisites:
J2EE concepts
EJB development
Servlet and JSP development
BEA WebLogic Server 9.0: J2EE Programming with EJBs
BEA WebLogic Server 9.0: J2EE Programming with Servlets and JSPs


Topics:

BEA WebLogic Server installation and configuration, network and unattended installs

BEA WebLogic Server as a Web server

Security configuration (users, groups, roles, policies, SSL)

Service management (JMS, JNDI, JDBC, transactions)

Custom J2EE class loading

Startup/shutdown classes

Application life cycle events

Development and production environment configuration

Node manager

SNMP

Monitoring (application, server)

Network channel configurations

Administration scripting

Application deployment

Cluster configuration

Proxy servers

Session replication

Application deployment to a cluster

Clustering services

Server migration

Overview of WebLogic Server Virtual Edition