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WebSphere Application Server V7 Administration and Configuration Guide

by Carla Sadtler, Fabio Albertoni, Leonard Blunt, Michael Connolly, Stefan Kwiatkowski, Thayaparan Shanmugaratnam, Henrik Sjostrand, Saori Tanikawa, Margaret Ticknor, Joerg-Ulrich Veser

March 2010

Intermediate to advanced

830 pages

17h 40m

English

IBM Redbooks

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Preface
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Summary of changes
March 2010, Second Edition
Part 1 Basic administration and configuration techniques
Chapter 1. System management: A technical overview
1.1 System management overview1.1.1 Terminology1.1.2 Directory conventions1.1.3 Profiles1.1.4 System management tools1.2 System management in a standalone server environment1.3 System management of multiple standalone servers1.4 System management in a distributed server environment1.4.1 Centralized changes to configuration and application data1.4.2 Rules for process startup1.4.3 Distributed process discovery1.4.4 Configuration and application data repository1.4.5 File synchronization in distributed server environments1.5 Management of distributed and standalone servers1.6 Java Management Extensions (JMX)1.6.1 JMX MBeans1.6.2 JMX usage scenarios1.7 Centralized Installation Manager1.8 IBM Support Assistant V4
Chapter 2. Working with profiles on distributed systems
2.1 Types of profiles2.1.1 Application server profile2.1.2 Deployment manager profile2.1.3 Custom profile2.1.4 Cell profile2.1.5 Administrative agent profile2.1.6 Job manager profile2.1.7 Profile generation2.2 Planning for profiles2.3 Building systems with profiles2.3.1 Starting the PMT2.3.2 Common panels and steps for all profiles2.3.3 Creating an application server profile2.3.4 Creating a deployment manager profile2.3.5 Creating a cell profile2.3.6 Creating a custom profile2.3.7 Federating nodes to a cell2.3.8 Creating an administrative agent profile2.3.9 Creating a job manager profile2.3.10 Registering nodes to an administrative agent2.3.11 Deregistering a node from the administrative agent2.3.12 Registering an administrative agent node with a job manager2.3.13 Registering a deployment manager with a job manager2.4 Managing profiles2.4.1 Using the manageprofiles command2.4.2 Getting help2.4.3 Getting a list of profiles2.4.4 Creating a profile with the manageprofiles command2.4.5 Creating a profile in silent mode with PMT2.4.6 Deleting profiles
Chapter 3. Working with profiles on z/OS systems
3.1 Creating WebSphere environments3.1.1 WebSphere Application Server for z/OS3.1.2 WebSphere DMZ secure proxy server for z/OS3.2 Getting started with the profile management tool3.3 Sample environment3.4 Creating a deployment manager definition3.4.1 Creating the customization definition3.4.2 Uploading the jobs to the z/OS system3.4.3 Executing the jobs3.5 Creating the base application server definition3.6 Federating an application server3.7 Creating a job manager profile3.8 Creating an administrative agent profile
Chapter 4. Centralized Installation Manager
4.1 Planning considerations4.1.1 Linux and AIX target requirements4.1.2 Requirement when using CIM for installing or uninstalling maintenance on AIX target as non-root user4.1.3 Update Installer4.1.4 Repository directory structure4.2 Installing CIM and creating the repository4.3 Loading additional product packages into the repository4.3.1 Installing Installation Factory4.3.2 Package types4.3.3 Adding product packages to the CIM respository4.3.4 Adding maintenance when the deployment manager is connected to the Internet4.3.5 When the deployment manager is not connected to the Internet4.4 Using CIM to manage your environment4.4.1 Adding additional installation targets outside of the cell4.4.2 Installing a Secure Shell (SSH) public key4.4.3 Removing installation target systems4.4.4 Installing packages to the target systems4.4.5 Product installation4.4.6 Installing maintenance to target systems4.4.7 Uninstalling packages4.4.8 CIM AdminTask Commands
Chapter 5. Administration consoles and commands
5.1 Introducing the WebSphere administrative consoles5.1.1 Starting and accessing the consoles5.1.2 Logging in to a console5.1.3 Changing the administrative console session timeout5.1.4 The graphical interface5.1.5 Finding an item in the console5.1.6 Updating existing items5.1.7 Adding new items5.1.8 Removing items5.1.9 Starting and stopping items5.1.10 Using variables5.1.11 Saving work5.1.12 Getting help5.2 Securing the console5.2.1 Enabling security after profile creation5.2.2 Administrative security roles5.3 Job manager console5.3.1 Submitting a job with the job manager5.3.2 Distributing files using the job manager5.4 Using command line tools5.4.1 Command location5.4.2 Key usage parameters5.4.3 Entering commands

Chapter 6. Administration of WebSphere processes
6.1 Working with the deployment manager6.1.1 Deployment manager configuration settings6.1.2 Starting and stopping the deployment manager6.2 Starting and stopping an administrative agent6.3 Starting and stopping the job manager6.4 Working with application servers6.4.1 Creating an application server6.4.2 Viewing the status of an application server6.4.3 Starting an application server6.4.4 Stopping an application server6.4.5 Viewing runtime attributes of an application server6.4.6 Customizing application servers6.5 Working with nodes in a distributed environment6.5.1 Starting and stopping nodes6.5.2 Node agent synchronization6.5.3 Removing a node from a cell6.5.4 Renaming a node6.5.5 Node groups6.6 Working with clusters6.6.1 Creating application server clusters6.6.2 Viewing cluster topology6.6.3 Managing clusters6.7 Working with virtual hosts6.7.1 Creating and updating virtual hosts6.8 Managing your configuration files6.8.1 Backing up a profile6.8.2 Restoring a profile6.8.3 Exporting and importing profiles6.9 Managing applications6.9.1 Managing enterprise applications: Administrative console6.9.2 Installing an enterprise application6.9.3 Uninstalling an enterprise application6.9.4 Starting an enterprise application6.9.5 Stopping an enterprise application6.9.6 Preventing an enterprise application from starting on a server6.9.7 Viewing application details6.9.8 Finding a URL for a servlet or JSP6.10 Enabling process restart on failure
Chapter 7. WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
7.1 WebSphere Application Server on z/OS Architecture7.1.1 Architecture of a single application server on z/OS7.1.2 Cell architecture of WebSphere Application Server for z/OS7.2 WebSphere Application Server for z/OS operations7.2.1 Structure of the configuration HFS7.2.2 Load module libraries in the HFS7.2.3 Changed start procedure JCLs with V77.2.4 Starting and stopping an application server7.2.5 Logging and tracing7.3 Maintenance for the HFS7.3.1 The process of applying maintenance7.3.2 The concept of intermediate symbolic links7.4 Workload management7.4.1 Workload management overview7.4.2 Workload classification7.4.3 Transaction classification7.4.4 Servant activation7.4.5 Basic WLM classifications7.5 What is new in V7 for z/OS7.5.1 z/OS Fast Response Cache Accelerator (FRCA)7.5.2 Thread hang recovery7.5.3 Systems Management Facility (SMF) Subtype 97.6 Thread management using the workload profile7.7 Local connectivity to DB27.7.1 Prerequisites for implementing a JDBC type 2 driver7.7.2 Creating a JDBC provider7.7.3 Defining a type 2 data source7.8 Migrating to V7
Chapter 8. Administration with scripting
8.1 Overview of WebSphere scripting8.1.1 Script programming languages8.2 Launching wsadmin8.2.1 Scripting environment properties file8.2.2 Script profile file8.2.3 Connected versus local mode8.3 Command and script invocation8.4 wsadmin management objects8.4.1 Help8.4.2 AdminControl8.4.3 AdminConfig8.4.4 AdminApp8.4.5 AdminTask8.5 Managing WebSphere using script libraries8.5.1 Invoking script libraries8.5.2 Displaying help for script libraries8.5.3 Application script library8.5.4 Resource script library8.5.5 Security script library8.5.6 Server script library8.5.7 System management script library8.6 Assistance with scripting8.6.1 Enabling command assistance8.6.2 Building script files using command assist8.7 Example: Using scripts with the job manager8.7.1 Introduction8.7.2 Creating the customized script8.7.3 Submitting the job8.7.4 Check the results8.8 Online resources
Chapter 9. Accessing databases from WebSphere
9.1 JDBC resources9.1.1 JDBC providers and data sources9.1.2 WebSphere support for data sources9.2 Steps in defining access to a database9.2.1 Creating an authentication alias9.3 Example: Connecting to an IBM DB2 database9.3.1 Creating the JDBC provider9.3.2 Creating the data source9.4 Example: Connecting to an Oracle database9.4.1 Creating the JDBC provider9.4.2 Creating the data source9.5 Example: Connecting to an SQL Server database9.5.1 Creating the JDBC provider9.5.2 Creating the data source9.6 Example: Connecting to an Informix Dynamic Server database9.6.1 Creating the JDBC provider9.6.2 Creating the data source9.7 Configuring connection pooling properties9.7.1 WebSphere Application Server data source properties9.7.2 Extended DB2 data source
Chapter 10. Accessing EIS applications from WebSphere
10.1 JCA resource adapters10.1.1 WebSphere Application Server JCA support10.2 Resource adapters10.2.1 Installing and configuring resource adapters10.3 Configuring J2C connection factories10.4 Resource authentication10.4.1 Container-managed authentication10.4.2 Component-managed authentication
Chapter 11. Monitoring
11.1 Overview11.1.1 Monitoring scenarios11.2 Enabling monitoring infrastructures11.2.1 PMI defaults and monitoring settings11.2.2 Enable request metrics11.3 Viewing the monitoring data11.4 Monitoring scenarios11.4.1 Database interactions11.4.2 Threading resources11.4.3 JVM memory usage11.4.4 Request level details11.5 ITCAM for WebSphere11.5.1 Installing the data collector11.5.2 Configuring ITCAM for WebSphere metrics11.5.3 Viewing ITCAM for WebSphere data11.6 Monitoring considerations summary11.6.1 Other tools and considerations11.6.2 Summary of monitoring tips
Part 2 Working with applications
Chapter 12. Session management
12.1 HTTP session management12.2 Session manager configuration12.2.1 Session management properties12.2.2 Accessing session management properties12.3 Session identifiers12.3.1 Choosing a session tracking mechanism12.3.2 Cookies12.3.3 URL rewriting12.4 Local sessions12.5 General properties for session management12.6 Session affinity12.6.1 Session affinity and failover12.7 Persistent session management12.7.1 Enabling database persistence12.7.2 Memory-to-memory replication12.7.3 Session management tuning12.7.4 Larger DB2 page sizes and database persistence12.7.5 Single and multi-row schemas (database persistence)12.7.6 Contents written to the persistent store using a database12.8 Invalidating sessions12.8.1 Session listeners12.9 Session security12.10 Session performance considerations12.10.1 Session size12.10.2 Reducing persistent store I/O12.10.3 Multirow persistent sessions: Database persistence12.10.4 Managing your session database connection pool12.10.5 Session database tuning12.11 Stateful session bean failover12.11.1 Enabling stateful session bean failover12.11.2 Stateful session bean failover consideration
Chapter 13. Understanding class loaders
13.1 A brief introduction to Java class loaders13.2 WebSphere class loader overview13.2.1 WebSphere extensions class loader13.2.2 Application and Web module class loaders13.2.3 Handling JNI code13.3 Configuring WebSphere for class loaders13.3.1 Application server class loader policies13.3.2 Class loading/delegation mode13.3.3 Shared libraries13.4 Class loader viewer13.5 Learning class loaders by example13.5.1 Step 1: Simple Web module packaging13.5.2 Step 2: Adding an EJB module and utility jar13.5.3 Step 3: Changing the WAR class loader delegation mode13.5.4 Step 4: Sharing utility JARs using shared libraries
Chapter 14. Packaging applications for deployment
14.1 JEE 5 EAR files14.1.1 Development tools14.1.2 Working with deployment descriptors14.2 EJB 3.0 modules14.3 JPA persistence units14.3.1 JPA access intents14.4 Resource adapters14.5 Web modules14.5.1 WebSphere extensions to Web modules14.5.2 File serving14.5.3 Web application auto reload14.5.4 Serve servlets by class name14.5.5 Default error page14.5.6 Directory browsing14.5.7 Pre-compile JSPs14.5.8 Automatic HTTP request and response encoding14.6 Example: Packaging an application14.6.1 Configuring Web module extensions14.7 Exporting to an EAR file14.8 WebSphere Enhanced EAR14.8.1 Configuring a WebSphere Enhanced EAR14.9 Packaging recommendations14.10 Business-level applications14.10.1 Example: Creating a business-level application
Chapter 15. Deploying applications
15.1 Preparing the environment15.1.1 Creating the ITSO Bank DB2 database15.1.2 Creating an environment variable15.1.3 Creating the ITSO Bank application server15.1.4 Defining the ITSO Bank virtual host15.1.5 Creating the virtual host for IBM HTTP Server and Apache15.1.6 Creating a DB2 JDBC provider and data source15.2 Deploying the application15.3 Deploying application clients15.3.1 Defining application client bindings15.3.2 Launching the J2EE client15.4 Updating applications15.4.1 Replacing an entire application EAR file15.4.2 Replacing or adding an application module15.4.3 Replacing or adding single files in an application or module15.4.4 Removing application content15.4.5 Performing multiple updates to an application or module15.4.6 Rolling out application updates to a cluster15.4.7 Hot deployment and dynamic reloading
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Overview

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides system administrators and developers with the knowledge to configure a WebSphere® Application Server V7 runtime environment, to package and deploy applications, and to perform ongoing management of the WebSphere environment.

As one in a series of IBM Redbooks publications and Redpapers™ publications for V7, the entire series is designed to give you in-depth information about key WebSphere Application Server features. In this book, we provide a detailed exploration of the WebSphere Application Server V7 runtime administration process.

The book includes configuration and administration information for WebSphere Application Server V7 and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7 on distributed platforms and WebSphere Application Server for z/OS® V7.

The following publications are considered prerequisites to this book:
- WebSphere Application Server V7.0: Technical Overview, REDP-4482
- WebSphere Application Server V7: Concepts, Planning and Design, SG24-7708

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