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Middleware Administration tasks

Weblogic Application Server Overview and History
Overview of the Weblogic Server Administration Tasks

1. Weblogic Server Installation

1.1 Types of installation
1.2 Installation Prerequisites
1.3 Installation Issues
1.4 Different versions of Weblogic Server installation.

2.Weblogic Server concepts discussion

2.1 Jar, WAR, EAR, RAR files understanding.
2.2 Domians, AdminServer, Nodenamager, Managed Servers
2.3 JDBC,JMS,SSL
2.4 Clusters,Virtual Host
2.5 Weblogic Server Architecture

3.Various types of Domain creation

3.1 Domain creation in different ways
3.2 Domain creation issues
3.3 Prerequisites


4.Configuring the Clusters and Big picture of clusters

4.1 Understanding of clusters and creation of clusters
4.2 Clusters types
4.3 Cluster Algothm
4.4 Cluster scenarios
4.5 Cluster Architecture
4.6 Case studies on Clusters
4.7 Managed Servers
4.8 Session replication

5. Deploymets

5.1 JAR ,EAR,WAR,RAR files deployments
5.2 Side by side deployments
5.3 Twophase deoployments
5.4 Java Weblogic.Deployer utility
5.5 Shell script deployemnts
5.6 Ant Script Deployments

6. Monitoring Concepts

6.1 Monitoring os Servers
6.2 Monitoring os JDBC
6.3 Monitoring os JMS
6.4 Monitoring of Threads
6.5 Monitoring of Applications

7.Middleware Services

7.1 JDBC Concepts
7.2 JMS Concepts
7.3 JMS Server configuration
7.4 JMS Resources
7.5 JMS Queues
7.6 JMS Topics
7.7 Distributed Queues & Topics
7.8 JNDI Concepts
7.9 Persistent Stores
7.10 JMS Bridges

8.Virtual hosts

81 Understanding of the virtual host.
8.2 Virtual host creation
8.3 Virtual host scenarios

9.LDAP (Embeded LDAP and External LDAP Servers

9.1 Concepts of Security Realm
9.2 Security Realm creaion
9.3 User and groups creation
9.4 Policy and Roles creation

10.Applying the Weblogic Patches.

10.1 Installation And applying the Patches
10.2 Understanding of the BEA SMU Tool


11. Performance Tunning Techniques

11.1 Understanding of the Various Types of JVM's
11.2 JVM  Algorithms
11.3 Performance tunning of the JVM's
11.4 JMS and JDBC Performance Tunning.
11.5 Weblogic Server Performance Tunning Topics

12. Trouble shooting Issues

12.1 Weblogic Trouble Shooting Issues
12.2 Discussion on Top most Middleware issues.

13. Thread Dump And Heap Dump Analysis

13.1 Analysis of thread dumps and taking of thread dupms
13.2 Samurai tool
13.3 Heap Dump analysys and GC

14 Web Server Concepts (Apache)

14.1 Apache Installation
14.2 Configuration
14.3 Apache Commands
14.4 SSL in Apache
14.5 Load Balancing in Apache
14.6 Integration Apache with Weblogic
14.7 URL Redirection in Apache

15. IBM Websphere MQ

16. Unix Basic Commands

17. Shell scripting

18. Perl Scripting

19. WLST (Weblogic Scripting Tool)

20. ITIL Concepts and Production Environment methodologies

20.1 Change Management
20.2 Incident Management
20.3 Problem management
20.4 Release and Deploy Management
20.5 Real Time Tools -- (BMC Remedy)

21. Tools and Usage

21.1 Putty and WINSCP Tools
21.2 Jprofiler
21.3 Samurai