WebSphere application server V6 system management and configuration handbook / [Carla Sadtler ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web servers--Computer programs.

Web servers.

Application software.

Electronic commerce--Software.

Electronic commerce.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

1012 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Become a published author

Comments welcome

Notices

Trademarks

Part 1 The basics

Chapter 1. WebSphere Application Server V6 for distributed platforms

1.1 WebSphere overview

1.2 WebSphere family

1.3 WebSphere Application Servers

1.4 WebSphere Application Server for distributed platforms

1.4.1 Packaging

1.4.2 System requirements and support for distributed platforms

1.4.3 New for V6

Chapter 2. WebSphere Application Server V6 architecture

2.1 Application server configurations

2.1.1 Stand-alone server configuration

2.1.2 Distributed server configuration

2.2 Application servers, nodes, and cells

2.2.1 Application servers

2.2.2 Nodes, node groups, and node agents

2.2.3 Cells

2.3 Servers

2.3.1 Application servers

2.3.2 Clusters

2.3.3 JMS servers (V5)

2.3.4 External servers

2.4 Containers

2.4.1 Web container

2.4.2 Enterprise JavaBeans container

2.4.3 Application client container

2.5 Application server services

2.5.1 J2EE Connector Architecture services

2.5.2 Transaction service

2.5.3 Dynamic cache service

2.5.4 Message listener service

2.5.5 Object Request Broker service

2.5.6 Administrative service

2.5.7 Name service

2.5.8 Performance Monitoring Infrastructure service

2.5.9 Security service

2.6 Data Replication Service

2.7 Virtual hosts

2.8 Session management

2.8.1 HTTP Session persistence

2.8.2 Stateful session EJB persistence

2.9 Web services

2.9.1 Enterprise services (JCA Web services)

2.9.2 Web service client

2.9.3 Web service provider

2.9.4 Enterprise Web Services

2.9.5 IBM WebSphere UDDI Registry

2.9.6 Web Services Gateway

2.10 Service integration bus

2.10.1 Application support.

2.10.2 Service integration bus and messaging

2.10.3 Web services and the service integration bus

2.11 Security

2.11.1 User registry

2.11.2 Authentication

2.11.3 Authorization

2.11.4 Security components

2.11.5 Security flows

2.12 Resource providers

2.12.1 JDBC resources

2.12.2 Mail providers

2.12.3 JCA resource adapters

2.12.4 URL providers

2.12.5 JMS providers

2.12.6 Resource environment providers

2.13 Workload management

2.14 High availability

2.15 Administration

2.15.1 Administration tools

2.15.2 Configuration repository

2.15.3 Centralized administration

2.16 The flow of an application

2.17 Developing and deploying applications

2.17.1 Application design

2.17.2 Application development

2.17.3 Application packaging

2.17.4 Application deployment

2.17.5 WebSphere Rapid Deployment

2.18 Technology support summary

Chapter 3. System management: A technical overview

3.1 System management overview

3.1.1 System management tools

3.1.2 System management in a standalone server environment

3.1.3 System management in a distributed server environment

3.1.4 Role-based administration

3.2 Java Management Extensions (JMX)

3.2.1 JMX architecture

3.2.2 JMX distributed administration

3.2.3 JMX MBeans

3.2.4 JMX usage scenarios

3.2.5 J2EE management

3.3 Distributed administration

3.3.1 Distributed process discovery

3.3.2 Centralized changes to configuration and application data

3.3.3 File synchronization

3.4 Configuration and application data repository

3.4.1 Repository directory structure

3.4.2 Variable scoped files

3.4.3 Application data files

Chapter 4. Getting started with profiles

4.1 Understanding profiles

4.1.1 Types of profiles

4.1.2 Directory structure and default profiles

4.2 Building a system using profiles.

4.2.1 Standalone server environment

4.2.2 Distributed server environment

4.3 Creating profiles

4.3.1 Creating a deployment manager profile

4.3.2 Creating an application server profile

4.3.3 Creating a custom profile

4.3.4 Federating a custom node to a cell

4.3.5 Creating a new application server on an existing node

4.3.6 Federating an application server profile to a cell

4.4 Creating profiles manually

4.4.1 Using the wasprofile command

4.4.2 Creating a profile

4.5 Managing the processes

4.5.1 Starting a distributed server environment

4.5.2 Stopping the distributed server environment

4.5.3 Enabling process restart on failure

Chapter 5. Administration basics

5.1 Introducing the WebSphere administrative console

5.1.1 Starting the administrative console

5.1.2 Logging in to the administrative console

5.1.3 Changing the administrative console session timeout

5.1.4 The graphical interface

5.1.5 Finding an item in the console

5.1.6 Updating existing items

5.1.7 Adding new items

5.1.8 Removing items

5.1.9 Starting and stopping items

5.1.10 Using variables

5.1.11 Saving work

5.1.12 Getting help

5.2 Securing the administrative console

5.3 Working with the deployment manager

5.3.1 Deployment manager configuration settings

5.3.2 Starting and stopping the deployment manager

5.4 Working with application servers

5.4.1 Creating an application server

5.4.2 Viewing the status of an application server

5.4.3 Starting an application server

5.4.4 Stopping an application server

5.4.5 Viewing runtime attributes of an application server

5.4.6 Customizing application servers

5.5 Working with nodes

5.5.1 Adding a node

5.5.2 Removing a node

5.5.3 Node agent synchronization

5.5.4 Starting and stopping nodes

5.5.5 Node groups.

5.6 Working with clusters

5.6.1 Creating clusters

5.6.2 Viewing cluster topology

5.6.3 Managing clusters

5.7 Working with virtual hosts

5.7.1 Creating a virtual host

5.8 Managing applications

5.8.1 Using the administrative console to manage applications

5.8.2 Installing an enterprise application

5.8.3 Uninstalling an enterprise application

5.8.4 Exporting an enterprise application

5.8.5 Starting an enterprise application

5.8.6 Stopping an enterprise application

5.8.7 Preventing an enterprise application from starting on a server

5.8.8 Viewing installed applications

5.8.9 Viewing EJB modules

5.8.10 Viewing Web modules

5.8.11 Finding a URL for a servlet or JSP

5.9 Managing your configuration files

5.9.1 Backing up a profile configuration

5.9.2 Restoring a node configuration

5.9.3 Exporting and importing profiles

5.9.4 Deleting profiles

Chapter 6. Administration with scripting

6.1 Overview of WebSphere scripting

6.2 Using wsadmin

6.2.1 Launching wsadmin

6.2.2 Configuring wsadmin

6.2.3 Commands and scripts invocation

6.2.4 Overview of wsadmin objects

6.2.5 Management using wsadmin objects

6.3 Common operational administrative tasks using wsadmin

6.3.1 General approach for operational tasks

6.3.2 Examples of common administrative tasks

6.3.3 Managing the deployment manager

6.3.4 Managing nodes

6.3.5 Managing application servers

6.3.6 Managing enterprise applications

6.3.7 Managing clusters

6.3.8 Generating the Web server plug-in configuration

6.3.9 Enabling tracing for WebSphere components

6.4 Common configuration tasks

6.4.1 General approach for configuration tasks

6.4.2 Specific examples of WebSphere configuration tasks

6.5 Differences from WebSphere V5

6.6 End-to-end examples

6.7 Using Java for administration.

Online resources

Chapter 7. Configuring WebSphere resources

7.1 WebSphere resources

7.2 JDBC resources

7.2.1 What are JDBC providers and data sources?

7.2.2 WebSphere support for data sources

7.2.3 Creating a data source

7.2.4 Creating a JDBC provider

7.2.5 Creating JDBC data source

7.3 JCA resources

7.3.1 WebSphere Application Server JCA support

7.3.2 Installing and configuring resource adapters

7.3.3 Configuring J2C connection factories

7.3.4 Using resource adapters from an application

7.4 JavaMail resources

7.4.1 JavaMail sessions

7.4.2 Configuring the mail provider

7.4.3 Configuring JavaMail sessions

7.4.4 Example code

7.5 URL providers

7.5.1 Configuring URL providers

7.5.2 Configuring URLs

7.5.3 URL provider sample

7.6 Resource environment providers

7.6.1 Resource environment references

7.6.2 Configuring the resource environment provider

7.7 Resource authentication

7.8 More information

Chapter 8. Managing Web servers

8.1 Web server support overview

8.1.1 Request routing using the plug-in

8.1.2 Web server and plug-in management

8.2 Web server installation examples

8.2.1 Standalone server environment

8.2.2 Distributed server environment

8.3 Working with Web servers

8.3.1 Defining nodes and Web servers

8.3.2 Viewing the status of a Web server

8.3.3 Starting and stopping a Web server

8.3.4 IBM HTTP Server remote administration

8.3.5 Mapping modules to servers

8.4 Working with the plug-in configuration file

8.4.1 Regenerating the plug-in configuration file

8.4.2 Propagating the plug-in configuration file

8.4.3 Modifying the plug-in request routing options

Chapter 9. Problem determination

9.1 Resources for identifying problems

9.2 Administrative console messages

9.3 Log files

9.3.1 JVM (standard) logs.

9.3.2 Process (native) logs.

Notes:

"February 2005."

"SG24-6451-00."

OCLC:

137342137