Weblogic & SOA Administartion Course outline

Installing your server

Class

• Brief History of WebLogic and SOA
• Tasks of an Oracle Weblogic Administrator
• Tools Used to Administer an Oracle Database
• Installation: System Requirements WebLogic
• WebLogic Installation (GUI).

LAB

• Pre-requisites for Installation
• Installing WebLogic
• Node Manager configuration

Configuring the WebLogic domain and JVM tunning

Class

• Describing how Domains are Used in the Enterprise
• Comparing Administration and Managed Servers
• Configuring a Domain
• Describing the Organization and Contents of the WLS Directory Structure
• Describing the use of WLST Offline to Manage Domains
• Creating a Simple Domain with One Managed Server
• Checking the Port Numbers that are Used for Components
• describing the Common Elements in a WebLogic Server Domain

LAB

• Creating the domain
• Start and stop the server.
• JVM parameters apply

Deployments in WebLogic

Class

• Contrasting Autodeploy With Manual Deployment
• Configuring and Deploying Web Applications Via the Administration Console, Command Line, and WLST
• Configuring Deployment Descriptors
• Testing Deployed Applications
• Describing the Role of Web Servers
• Tracing a Typical Web Interaction Flow
• Contrasting Static and Dynamic Content and Deployment
• Front-end Deployed Applications With a Web Server

LAB

• Deployment process sample application.
• Process to start the deployed Application
• Testing the services.

Data sources

CLASS

• Configuring JDBC and JDBC Data Sources
• Configuring Data Source Scope
• Contrasting Two-tier and Multi-tier JDBC Architecture
• Configuring a Connection Pool
• Describing How Data Sources are Used
• Deploying JDBC Resources to a Target
• Explaining the Components of JDBC URLs
• Monitoring and Testing a Data Source

LAB

• Data source creation
• Data source test
• Data source types creation .

JMS services creation

CLASS

• Describing JMS
• Describing How Oracle WebLogic Server JMS is Implemented
• Configuring JMS Server
• Configuring Connection Factories
• Configuring Queues and Topics
• Configuring Persistent Messages
• Deploying an Application that Uses JMS
• Monitoring JMS Resources and Messages

LAB

• JMS creation.

Cluster servers configuration and Management

CLASS

• Preparing Your Environment for a Cluster
• Creating and Configuring a Cluster
• Adding Servers to a Cluster
• Starting Up and Shutting Down Clustered Servers
• Deploying Applications to a Cluster
• Describing the Replication of a Session State in a Cluster
• Configuring Replication Groups
• Configuring In-memory Replication
• Configuring Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) Replication
• Configuring File Replication
• Configuring a Multitier Cluster for Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) Applications

LAB

• Preparing Your Environment for a Cluster
• Creating and Configuring a Cluster
• Adding Servers to a Cluster
• Starting Up and Shutting Down Clustered Servers
• Deploying Applications to a Cluster
• Describing the Replication of a Session State in a Cluster

Security concepts and configuration

CLASS

• Using the WebLogic Server (WLS) Security Architecture
• Configuring Security Realms
• Configuring Users and Groups
• Configuring Roles
• Configuring Policies
• Configuring Protection for Web Application Resources and EJBs

LAB

• SSL certificated installation
• User creation and assigning the groups

Backup and recovery operations

CLASS

• Recommending a Backup and Recovery Strategy
• Performing a Full Offline Backup and Recovery
• Performing an Online and Offline Domain Backup
• Performing an Offline Domain Recovery
• Performing an Instance Home Backup and Recovery

LAB

• Taking backup and restore the files
• Start and stop the server while doing restore

Managing SOA Composite Applications

CLASS

• Describing Composite Application Structure and Dependencies
• Deploying Composite Applications
• Testing and Monitoring Composite Applications
• Managing Composite Application Life Cycle

LAB

• Access SAO through EM
• Deploy the composites
• Mange the composites

Troubleshooting Oracle WebLogic&SOA

CLASS

• Resolving Managed Server Startup Problems
• Managing Connection Timeouts
• Identifying Log Files
• Configuring Log Levels
• Viewing Log File Entries
• Identifying and Resolving Common Application Problems

LAB

• Identifying Log Files
• Configuring Log Levels
• Viewing Log File Entries
• Identifying and Resolving Common Application Problems