Oracle WebLogic Server 11g: Advanced Administration

Course Description

Oracle WebLogic Server is a Java EE application environment that supports the deployment of mission critical applications using a robust, secure and scalable infrastructure. System administration of WebLogic Server includes a wide range of activities, from creating and configuring server domains, to deploying and securing applications, to monitoring and troubleshooting server, application and performance issues.In this course, students expand upon their basic administrative knowledge and experience, and learn more sophisticated techniques for working with WebLogic Server and integrating it within the rest of their enterprise. Particular attention is paid to the topics of authentication, enterprise messaging, clustering and performance. This course also covers some basic techniques for monitoring server health and for troubleshooting problems. Students continue to use tools such as the WebLogic Server Administration Console and WebLogic Server Scripting Tool (WLST) for performing these administration tasks.An appendix is included covering the differences between the 11g (10.3.3) and 12c (12.1.1) product versions with regard to Oracle WebLogic Server administration topics.Learn To: Manage domains and templatesConfigure a highly available messaging infrastructureAutomate server migration and failoverUtilize LDAP for authenticationMonitor servers using WLDF or SNMPThis course is an upgrade of Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R3: Advanced System Administration.

Skills Gained

• Configure and monitor server network channels
• Define a JDBC data source for load balancing and failover
• Configure JMS to guarantee message delivery
• Configure JMS load balancing and failover in a cluster
• Configure JMS store and forward features
• Create custom domain and extension templates
• Bridge WebLogic JMS to an external JMS provider
• Configure automatic server migration in a cluster
• Replicate HTTP sessions using multiple clusters
• Integrate WebLogic Server with an external LDAP server
• Integrate WebLogic Server with a database security store
• Tune a Java VM for performance
• Tune server subsystems for performance
• Define server work managers
• Apply techniques to diagnose and troubleshoot server problems
• Trigger SNMP notifications from WebLogic Server

Who Can Benefit

• Administrator
• Security Administrators
• Support Engineer
• Technical Administrator
• Technical Consultant
• Web Administrator

Prerequisites

• Experience with basic Linux administration and shell commands

Syllabus

Installation Management

• Smart Update
• Patch Management

Domain Templates

• Domain Templates
• Extension Templates
• Template Builder

Other Domain Tools

• WLST and Templates
• Pack Tool
• Configuration Backup
• Configuration Auditing

Advanced Network Configuration

• Network Channels
• Administration Channels
• Standby Mode

Multi Data Sources

• Data Source Failover
• Data Source Load Balancing
• Connection Testing
• WebLogic and RAC

JDBC Performance Essentials

• Connection Pooling
• Statement Caching
• Last Logging Resource

JMS Message Management

• Viewing Messages
• Exporting Messages
• Pausing Destinations

JMS Guaranteed Messaging

• Persistent Stores
• Durable Subscribers

JMS Performance Essentials

• Quotas
• Thresholds
• Unit of Order

JMS Store and Forward

• SAF Agents
• SAF Contexts
• SAF Imported Destinations

JMS Message Bridge

• Bridge Adapters
• Bridge Destinations
• Quality of Service

Server Migration

• Cluster Leasing
• Candidate Machines

JMS Clustering

• JMS Cluster Targeting
• Service Migration
• Migratable Targets
• Distributed Destinations
• JMS Load Balancing

Cross-Cluster Replication

• MAN Replication
• WAN Replication

Authentication Providers

• Security Realms
• Security Stores
• Control Flags
• LDAP Authenticators
• SQL Authenticator
• Password Validation
• Security Migration

Server Performance Essentials

• Load Testing
• JVM Tuning
• Heap Monitoring
• Work Managers

Monitoring and Diagnostics Essentials

• Runtime MBeans
• Diagnostics Framework
• Metric Collectors
• Watches
• Instrumentation
• WebLogic and SNMP
• Trap Monitors