WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide : Manage and Administer your WebSphere Application Server to Create a Reliable, Secure, and Scalable Environment for Running Your Applications.

WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide -- Table of Contents -- WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code for the book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Installing WebSphere Application Server -- Installation planning -- Installation scenarios -- Profile types -- Preparation and prerequisites -- Graphical installation -- Installing the base binaries -- Downloading the WAS for Linux trial -- Installing PuTTY -- Installing WinSCP -- Uploading the trial install to your Linux server -- Installing as root -- Running the launchpad -- Installation wizard welcome screen -- Software license agreement -- System prerequisites check -- Optional features -- Installation directory -- WebSphere Application Server environments -- Profile creation -- Installation registry files -- Installation logs -- Profile manager logs and files -- Logs -- Files -- Admin console -- Silent installation -- Creating a response file -- Editing a response file -- Running the installer silently -- Examining installation logs -- Summary -- 2. Deploying your Applications -- Inside the Application Server -- JVM -- Web container -- Virtual hosts -- Environment settings -- Resources -- JNDI -- Application file types -- Deploying an application -- Starting and stopping your applications -- Data access applications -- Data sources -- Preparing our sample database -- JDBC providers -- Creating a JDBC provider -- Creating a J2C alias -- Creating a data source -- Deploying a data access application -- Selecting installation options -- Mapping modules to servers -- Providing JSP reloading options for web modules -- Mapping shared libraries.

Mapping resource references to resources -- Mapping virtual hosts for web modules -- Mapping context roots for web modules -- Reviewing the deployment steps -- Using the application -- Summary -- 3. Security -- J2EE security -- Global security -- Global security registry types -- Turning on global security -- Standalone custom registry -- Local operating system -- Creating a Linux user -- Standalone LDAP -- Download OpenLDAP -- Installing OpenLDAP -- Configuring OpenLDAP -- Adding a user to LDAP -- Configuring an LDAP registry in WebSphere -- Administrative roles -- Mapping users and groups to administrative roles -- Summary -- 4. Administrative Scripting -- Automation -- The ws_ant tool -- Deploying an application using ws_ant -- The wsadmin tool -- Interactive commands -- Individual commands -- Profile scripts -- Command script files -- Listing installed applications with Jython -- Installing an application using Jython -- Querying application status -- Summary -- 5. WebSphere Configuration -- File structure -- The WebSphere file system -- The product binaries file structure -- The profile file structure -- XML configuration files -- Cell level XML files -- Node level XML files -- Server level XML files -- Important properties files -- The soap.client.props file -- The sas.client.props file -- Logs -- JVM logs -- Configuring logs -- Changing log file locations -- Changing log styles -- FFDC logs -- Viewing JVM logs -- Viewing logs in the admin console -- Viewing logs on the file system -- Linux tail command -- Linux grep command -- JVM settings -- Changing JVM settings using the admin console -- Class loaders -- Class loading basics -- WebSphere class loaders -- Application server class loader -- Configuring server class loaders -- Classloader policy -- Class loading mode -- Application class loader -- Configuring application class loaders.

Class loader order -- WAR class loader policy -- Web module class loader -- Configuring module class loading -- Class loader order -- Class loading isolation -- Summary -- 6. WebSphere Messaging -- Java messaging -- Java Message Service -- JMS features -- JMS concepts -- Point-to-point or queuing model -- Publish and subscribe model -- JMS API -- WebSphere messaging -- Default JMS provider -- WebSphere SIB -- Creating a SIB -- Configuring JMS -- Creating queue connection factories -- Creating queue destinations -- Installing the JMS demo application -- JMS Test Tool application -- WebSphere MQ overview -- Overview of WebSphere MQ example -- Installing WebSphere MQ -- Running the WMQ installer -- Creating a queue manager -- Creating a WMQ connection factory -- Creating a WMQ queue destination -- Reconfiguring the JMS demo application -- Summary -- 7. Monitoring and Tuning -- Tivoli Performance Viewer -- Enabling Tivoli Performance Viewer -- Key TPV categories -- Summary Reports -- Key performance modules -- Starting Tivoli Performance Viewer -- PMI for external monitoring -- Request metrics -- Enabling request metrics -- Components to be instrumented -- Trace level -- Request metrics destination -- Request metrics in SystemOut.log -- Retrieving performance data with PerfServlet -- Dynamic caching -- JVM tuning -- JVM core and heap dumps -- Requesting a Java core dump using Jython -- Requesting a heap dump using Jython -- Requesting a Java core dump using the kill command -- JVM-triggered heap dump -- Analysing a Java core (thread) dump -- IBM Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer for Java -- Installing the JCA tool -- Generate a Java core dump to view the thread lock -- Other analysis tools -- Setting the initial and maximum heap sizes -- Tuning your heap size -- Summary -- 8. Administrative Features -- The administrative agent.

Creating an administration profile -- Profile Management Tool -- Starting the administrative agent -- Administrative agent console -- Registering an application server node -- Creating a second application server node -- Removing the administrative agent -- IBM HTTP Server -- Starting IBM HTTP Server -- The WebSphere plugin -- Installing the WebSphere plugin -- Manual configuration of the plugin -- Generate plugin -- Summary -- 9. Administration Tools -- Dumping namespaces -- Example name space dump -- EAR expander -- Oveview of the WebSphere Application Server toolkit -- Installing the WebSphere Application Server toolkit -- Running the Application Server toolkit -- Log analysis using the ASTK -- Creating a new project -- Importing log files -- Applying filters -- Selecting columns -- Loading symptom databases -- Inspecting J2EE applications -- Summary -- 10. Product Maintenance -- Understanding updates -- Update process overview -- Product update types -- Preparing for updates -- Locating updates -- Fix Central -- Update installers -- Creating a backup -- Installing a new Update Installer -- Downloading the Update Installer -- Installing the graphical Update Installer -- Applying an update using the Update Installer -- Silent updates -- Logs -- Troubleshooting tips -- Summary -- Index.