WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Version 6.1.1 Table of Contents

(formerly known as WebSphere Extended Deployment Operations Optimization)

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Product overview

• What is new in this release
• Virtualization and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
  • Configuring AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 on POWER5 and POWER6 Micro-Partitioning
    • WebSphere Virtual Enterprise in a micro-partitioned environment
  • Supported hardware virtualization environments
• Dynamic operations
  • Overview of dynamic operations
  • Overview of request flow prioritization
  • Dynamic operations environment
• Components of dynamic operations
  • Operational policies
• Extended manageability
• Supported middleware server types
• Middleware nodes and servers
• Middleware agent
• Learn more about WebSphere Virtual Enterprise

Migrating the product

• Using the Migration wizard to migrate product configurations
• XDUpgrade command
• Migrating large topologies of external WebSphere application servers
  • Migration toolkit

Installing and configuring the product

• Planning the installation
  • Hardware and software requirements
  • Topology design
  • Installation scenarios
  • Installing in a WebSphere Application Server environment
• Installing the product
• Installing the product silently
• Installing the middleware agent
• Using the centralized installation manager repository tool to add products
• Installation parameters
• Using the Installation Factory plug-in to create and install customized packages
  • Build definition file
  • Creating a build definition file and generating a CIP
    • Installing a CIP
    • Installing a CIP to apply maintenance to an existing product installation
    • Uninstalling CIP updates from an existing product installation
  • Creating a build definition file and generating an IIP
    • Installing an IIP
    • Modifying an existing build definition file for an IIP
  • Silently installing a CIP or an IIP
• Creating and augmenting profiles
  • Using the graphical user interface to create profiles
    • Creating profiles for multiple products
    • Creating profiles for use with other IBM products
  • Using the graphical user interface to augment profiles
    • Augmenting profiles with multiple product augment templates
  • manageprofiles command
  • Non-root profile creation and augmentation
• Using the Update Installer to install maintenance packages
  • Updating the middleware agent
• Uninstalling the product

Preparing the hosting environment for dynamic operations

• Configuring VMware Infrastructure 3 platforms and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
  • VMware Infrastructure 3 platforms and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
  • Advanced configuration for VMware Infrastructure 3 platforms and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
• Federating middleware nodes
• Creating and configuring ODRs
  • Creating ODRs
  • Configuring ODRs
  • Creating a cluster of on demand routers
  • Configuring a Web server as a trusted proxy server
  • Enabling cell affinity
    • Cell affinity function
    • Defining generic server clusters for remote ODR cells
    • Configuring cell affinity in a multi-tiered environment
    • Configuring the multi-cluster routing policy
    • Generating a plugin-cfg.xml
    • Cell affinity when an ODR fails
  • [Tuning the on demand router (ODR)]
    • Modifying the JVM heap size for the on demand router
    • Tuning ODR persistent requests
    • Tuning ODR maximum connections
  • Configuring custom logs
    • Custom logs overview
  • Configuring SSL offload for all HTTPS traffic
  • Configuring SSL offload for partial HTTPS traffic
  • Integrating the SIP on demand router with Load Balancer
  • Defining routing policies for generic server clusters
    • Configuring rewriting rules
  • Defining service policies for generic server clusters
  • Configuring communication between core groups that are in the same cell
  • BBSON bulletin board
  • Configuring WebSphere Virtual Enterprise for cross-cell communication
    • Enabling communication between cells that have security enabled
  • Configuring an on demand router to dynamically update the Web server plug-in configuration
    • Generating the plug-in configuration in a high availability environment
    • Controlling the generation of the plugin-cfg.xml file
  • Routing requests directly from a Web server to a back-end application server
  • Configuring passive HTTP session affinity in the on demand router
  • Configuring the on demand router for multi-cluster failover and load balancing routing
• Adding middleware servers to configurations
  • Adding complete life-cycle middleware servers
    • Creating PHP servers and PHP dynamic clusters
    • Creating complete life-cycle WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers and dynamic clusters
      • WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers
      • Configuring JMX security for WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Version 2.1 servers
  • Adding assisted life-cycle middleware servers
    • Configuring assisted life-cycle WebSphere Application Server Community Edition servers
    • Configuring Apache Tomcat servers
    • Configuring BEA WebLogic servers
    • Configuring JBoss servers
    • Configuring custom HTTP servers
    • Configuring external WebSphere application servers
  • Managing middleware servers
    • Configuring middleware descriptors
    • Creating middleware server templates
    • Configuring middleware server operations
    • Viewing middleware server configuration files
    • Configuring the external log viewing service
• Creating dynamic clusters
  • Dynamic clusters
  • Static clusters versus dynamic clusters
  • Dynamic cluster isolation
  • Configuring application lazy start
    • Application lazy start
    • The lazy start controller
  • Configuring vertical stacking
    • Determining the stacking number for a dynamic cluster
    • Configuring a dynamic cluster with homogeneous nodes to support vertical stacking
    • Configuring a dynamic cluster with heterogeneous nodes to support vertical stacking
  • HTTP session rebalancing
• Deploying applications with defined service levels
  • Deploying enterprise applications
  • Deploying unmanaged Web applications
  • Deploying PHP applications
  • Deploying WebSphere Application Server Community Edition applications
• Routing and service policies
  • Defining a service policy
  • Subexpression builder operands for routing and service policies
    • SOAP operands
    • SIP operands
    • IIOP operands
    • HTTP operands
• Service policy rules
  • Rules support
  • Routing policy action types
  • Overview of work classes
  • Work class types
  • Request classification operators
  • Rule-based request classification

Managing the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise environment

• Setting maintenance mode
• Routing to servers that are in maintenance mode
• Manually replacing SSL certificates for the middleware agent
• Configuring health management
  • Health management
    • Excessive request timeout health policy target timeout value
  • Creating health policies
    • Custom health condition subexpression builder
    • Creating health policy custom actions
• Using the centralized installation manager to manage your environment
  • Centralized installation manager overview
  • Installing packages
    • Downloading the Update Installer for WebSphere Software
    • Downloading package descriptors and the associated binary files
      • Installing interim fixes
      • Installing refresh packs or fix packs
      • Manually adding files to the repository
    • Downloading and installing WebSphere Application Server Community Edition
    • Installing sudo on target AIX operating systems to apply maintenance as a non-root user
  • Uninstalling packages
  • Monitoring requests
  • Managing installation targets
    • Using Remote Execution and Access to access remote installation targets
    • Installing the Secure Shell public key to access installation targets
    • Running Cygwin as root to use SSH on target Windows operating systems
    • Updating Secure Shell public key installation records
• Routing requests to nodes that are not running WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
  • Routing requests to external nodes with generic server clusters
    • Enabling external monitoring with the remote agent
  • Multiple tiers of processing
  • WebSphere Virtual Enterprise topology terminology
  • Configuring speed factors in multiple tier configurations
    • Overriding work factor estimates
    • Configuring node computing power
• Configuring a high availability deployment manager environment
  • Adding the signer certificate from the secondary deployment manager to the local trust store
  • The high availability deployment manager
  • xd_hadmgrAdd command
  • xd_hadmgrRemove command
• Configuring a checkpoint
  • The repository checkpoint and restore function
  • Restoring a checkpoint
• Configuring the autonomic managers
  • Configuring the autonomic request flow manager
    • Configuring emergency throttle
    • Memory overload protection
    • Configuring memory overload protection
    • Trace settings for autonomic request flow manager and application placement
    • Request prioritization problems
  • Configuring dynamic application placement
    • Overview of application placement
    • Dynamic application placement
    • Configuring application placement for cells that share the same nodes
    • Monitoring and tuning the application placement controller
    • Application placement frequently asked questions
    • Application placement controller logs
  • Overview of IIOP and JMS request flow prioritization
    • Overview of JMS support in WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
  • Optimizing the database tier for performance monitoring
    • Configuring the database tier
    • Monitoring the database tier
  • Configuring the health controller
    • Enabling and disabling health management
    • Modifying the JVM heap size
    • Monitoring and tuning health management
    • Troubleshooting health management
  • Tuning the WebSphere Virtual Enterprise cell

Deploying and managing application editions without loss of service

• Application edition manager concepts
  • Application edition manager
  • Application edition manager states
  • Application edition manager operational environment
  • Edition compatibility
• Installing an edition
• Activating an edition
  • Activating concurrent editions
• Creating routing policies for application editions
• Validating an edition
  • Canceling an application validation
• Performing a rollout on an edition
  • Algorithm for performing a rollout
• Performing a rollback on an edition
• Deleting an installed edition
• Troubleshooting application edition manager
  • Application edition manager frequently asked questions

Monitoring operations

• Runtime operations overview
• Creating and managing reports
• Configuring the visualization data service
• Task management
  • Managing runtime tasks
  • Task management service event logger
  • Defining e-mail notification
• Troubleshooting extended administration

Configuring WebSphere Virtual Enterprise to work with other IBM products

• Enabling the on demand router to work with IBM Enterprise Workload Manager
  • WebSphere Virtual Enterprise and IBM Enterprise Workload Manager

Reference

• Release notes
• Port number settings
• Scripts
  • arfmController.py script
  • checkHmmLocation.jacl
  • checkPlacementLocation.jacl script
  • createDynamicCluster.jacl script
  • createodr.jacl script
  • coregroupsplit.py script
  • DataReaderWrapper class
  • deleteDynamicCluster.jacl script
  • deleteodr.jacl script
  • dumpOdrState.jacl script
  • dumpXdState.py script
  • encodePassword.sh or .bat script
  • Health controller commands with the AdminConfig object
  • healthpolicy.py script
  • HmmControllerProcs.jacl
  • manageODC.py script
  • manageODR.py script
  • MirrorCell..bat or MirroCell.sh script
  • odrDebug.py script
  • PlacementControllerProcs.jacl script
  • pluginmerge..bat or pluginmerge.sh script
  • serverQuiesce.py script
  • servicepolicy.py script
  • useWVEBB.py
  • workclassoperations.py script
  • xd_APCconfig.jacl script
• Administrative roles and privileges
• Administrator scripting interfaces
  • Application edition management administrative tasks
  • Centralized installation manager administrative tasks
  • Dynamic cluster administrative tasks
  • Default work class administrative tasks
  • Health policy administrative tasks
  • Maintenance mode administrative tasks
  • Middleware application administrative tasks
  • Middleware descriptor administrative tasks
  • Middleware server creation administrative tasks
  • Middleware server management administrative tasks
  • Middleware server template administrative tasks
  • PHP server administrative tasks
  • Rules for ODR routing policy administrative tasks
  • Rules for ODR service policy administrative tasks
  • Ruleset administrative tasks
  • Runtime operations user preferences administrative tasks
• Custom properties
  • Application edition manager custom properties
  • Application placement custom properties
  • Core group custom properties
  • Autonomic request flow manager custom properties
  • Autonomic request flow manager advanced custom properties
  • Dynamic cluster custom properties
  • Health controller custom properties
  • Internal state reporting custom properties
  • Service policy custom properties
  • Middleware agent custom properties
  • Middleware server custom properties and variables
  • Operational alerts custom properties
  • Runtime operations custom properties
  • On demand router system and custom properties
  • Runtime task custom properties
  • VMware custom properties
• Logs
  • StrfTime format conversions
  • DeploymentTargetStatsHistoricCache
  • NodeStatsHistoricCache
  • ServerStatsCache
  • TCModuleStatsCache
  • TCModuleInstanceStatsCache
  • TierStatsCache
  • FineGrainedPowerConsumptionStatsCache
  • ServerPowerConsumptionStatsCache
• Messages

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