WebSphere Application Server for iSeries V6 : Building Advanced Configurations.

Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Part 1 Understanding the topologies and their components -- Chapter 1. Topologies overview -- 1.1 Topology components and relationships -- 1.1.1 Access to the Internet -- 1.1.2 Firewall -- 1.1.3 Load balancer -- 1.1.4 Reverse proxy -- 1.1.5 Web server -- 1.1.6 Application server -- 1.1.7 LDAP server -- 1.1.8 Database -- 1.1.9 Network -- 1.2 WebSphere Application Server terminology -- 1.2.1 Application server node -- 1.2.2 Deployment manager -- 1.2.3 Node agent -- 1.2.4 WebSphere profile -- 1.2.5 Managed node -- 1.2.6 Web server managed node -- 1.2.7 Web server unmanaged node -- 1.2.8 Cell -- 1.2.9 Cluster -- 1.2.10 High Availability Manager -- 1.3 From the basic to the most sophisticated topologies -- 1.3.1 Single machine, single node, one application server topology -- 1.3.2 Web server separated topology -- 1.3.3 Reverse proxy topology -- 1.3.4 Vertical scaling topology -- 1.3.5 Horizontal scaling topology -- 1.3.6 Horizontal scaling with IP sprayer topology -- 1.3.7 Topology with redundancy of several components -- Chapter 2. Planning for a new topology -- 2.1 Overview of topology selection process -- 2.2 Patterns for e-business -- 2.2.1 e-business solution -- 2.2.2 Application patterns -- 2.3 Mapping business requirements to the application patterns -- 2.3.1 How to approach this step -- 2.3.2 Decision making tables -- 2.4 Understanding the requirements of the solutions -- 2.4.1 Establishing the functional view or solution requirements -- 2.5 Selecting the topology -- 2.5.1 Establishing the operational view or topology services -- 2.6 Reviewing the products mapping -- Chapter 3. Topology implementation guidelines -- 3.1 Planning phase output -- 3.2 Installation and configuration guidelines.

3.2.1 Edge Server -- 3.2.2 HTTP Server -- 3.2.3 WebSphere Application Server -- 3.2.4 Database server -- 3.2.5 Network infrastructure -- 3.3 Verification guidelines -- Part 2 Implementation steps -- Chapter 4. Scenario 1: Configuration for a small company -- 4.1 Small company scenario -- 4.2 Installed software -- 4.3 Topology setup -- 4.3.1 Network configuration -- 4.3.2 Firewall configuration -- 4.3.3 HTTP Server (powered by Apache) installation -- 4.3.4 HTTP Server configuration -- 4.3.5 WebSphere Application Server profile -- 4.3.6 Associating the HTTP server with the WebSphere profile -- 4.3.7 Functional verification testing -- Chapter 5. Scenario 2: Configuration for a large company -- 5.1 Large company configuration -- 5.1.1 Installed WebSphere software -- 5.2 Network configuration -- 5.2.1 Configuring the TCP/IP settings on the iSeries -- 5.2.2 Detailed topology diagram -- 5.3 Data considerations for high availability -- 5.3.1 Creating the independent disk pool Trade -- 5.3.2 Restoring the Trade database -- 5.3.3 Creating a cluster -- 5.3.4 Setting up a CRG -- 5.3.5 Defining a recovery domain for CRG -- 5.3.6 Configuring geographic mirroring -- 5.3.7 Making the geographic mirror available -- 5.3.8 Simulating an XSM switchover -- 5.3.9 Special case: Manual failover -- 5.3.10 Green-screen commands -- 5.4 Firewall configuration -- 5.5 Configuring the HTTP and WebSphere servers -- 5.5.1 Installing the Web server plug-in -- 5.5.2 Creating HTTP Server instances -- 5.5.3 Configuring a cluster of WebSphere servers -- 5.6 Configuring Load Balancer -- 5.6.1 Configuring the Load Balancer: A simple scenario -- 5.6.2 Configuring the Load Balancer: Primary and backup scenario -- 5.6.3 Scripts for high availability -- 5.6.4 Testing the Load Balancer scenario -- 5.7 Configuring an LDAP server -- 5.7.1 Directory server concepts.

5.7.2 Setting up the Directory Server for iSeries -- 5.7.3 Directory server replication overview -- 5.7.4 Creating a master-replica topology -- 5.7.5 Creating a master-peer topology -- 5.7.6 Removing details of the previous configuration -- 5.7.7 Adding Load Balancer to the LDAP servers topology -- 5.8 Functional verification testing -- Part 3 Appendixes -- Appendix A. WebSphere Application Server: New capabilities in Version 6 -- Programming model -- Application programming model support -- Programming model extensions -- Changes in Web services -- Service Data Object -- JavaServer Faces -- System management -- Mixed cell support -- Support for J2EE 1.4 specification -- New administrative commands -- WebSphere profiles -- Server templates -- Resource providers -- Support for extensible server types -- Introduction of node groups -- Improved administrative console look and feel -- System applications -- Application management features -- Replication -- Default message provider -- WebSphere configuration archive -- WebSphere Rapid Deployment -- Annotation-based programming -- Deployment automation -- IBM Service Integration Technologies (messaging) -- Application support -- Service integration bus and messaging -- Mediation -- Clustering -- Quality of Service -- Message Driven Beans -- Common networking services -- Transport channel service -- High availability -- Clustering enhancements -- Security -- Java Authorization Contract with Containers 1.0 support -- Java 2 security manager -- JCA 1.5 support -- SSL channel framework -- Web authentication -- Web services security -- Appendix B. Installing WebSphere Application Server Version 6 -- iSeries prerequisites -- What to install -- Installation methods -- GUI installation from a remote workstation -- Command line installation from a remote workstation -- Command line installation from the iSeries.

Verifying the installation of WebSphere Application Server V6 -- Log.txt file -- DSPSFWRSC -- Integrated file system directories -- QWAS6 library -- Default profile creation -- WebSphere Application Server installation problems -- Host servers not started on iSeries -- License agreement not accepted -- QWAS6 subsystem active -- Prerequisite check failures -- Installing fixes for WebSphere Application Server V6 -- Checking the level of WebSphere Application Server V6 -- WAS.product file -- PLG.product file -- CLIENT.product file -- versionInfo script -- Uninstalling WebSphere Application Server V6 -- Uninstalling WebSphere Application Server and user data -- Appendix C. Installing the Trade6 application -- Installing Trade6 -- Restoring the database -- Appendix D. Installing Load Balancer -- Preparing the environment -- Hardware and software -- Network -- Installing Load Balancer -- Appendix E. Additional geographic mirroring information -- Configuring fault tolerance for network routes using virtual IP and proxy ARP -- Associating the local IP interfaces with the virtual IP interface -- Updating your cluster configuration -- Using more than one communications line for synchronization -- Recovery steps for a two-node geographic mirroring configuration -- Appendix F. Additional material -- Locating the Web material -- Using the Web material -- System requirements for downloading the Web material -- How to use the Web material -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.