WebLogic Admin Training

This Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Essentials training teaches Web administrators techniques for installing and configuring Oracle WebLogic Server 11g. Expert Oracle University instructors will teach you how to deploy Java EE applications to Oracle WebLogic Server 11g using Administration Console and command-line and scripting tools like WLST.

Overview of J2EE platform
J2EE components
Overview of WebLogic Server
Feature of WebLogic Server
WebLogic Components and architecture:

WebLogic architecture
WebLogic Systems Modules
WebLogic command interfaces
WebLogic Java components
WebLogic security overview: best practices, SSL, wallets and certificates
Application stated (precompiled, expanded, archived)
Overview of WebLogic System Management
Oracle WebLogic Installation and Configuration

Oracle WebLogic capacity planning
Oracle WebLogic Server Sizing
Oracle WebLogic Server kernel setup
Oracle WebLogic initialization parameters
Oracle WebLogic installation
Creating the HTTP server
Create a WebLogic Default Web Application
Create virtual hosts
Use the WebLogic administration port to create a new domain
Overview of WebLogic security
Configure the WebLogic work manager
Integrating Oracle WebLogic with the Oracle database server
Oracle WebLogic and Java

Overview of JMS and JDBC for WebLogic
Create JDBC connection pooling
Make JDBC Data Sources
Understand the Java Transaction API (JTA)
Oracle WebLogic plug-in’s
WebLogic HTTP Server

Installing and configuring a HTTP server
Managing HTTP connections to WebLogic (connection pooling)
HTTP request caching
HTTP Server load balancing and failover
Using HTTP for connections to replicated WebLogic instances
Oracle WebLogic System Administration

Using the WebLogic Administration Console
Installing Oracle WebLogic service packs
Using the WebLogic command-line Interface
Creating WebLogic Domains
Using the WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)
Oracle WebLogic maintenance: Installing WebLogic patches
Using the WebLogic upgrade tool
Provider export and provider import
Using the WebLogic garbage collector (GC)
Learn server-level migration
WebLogic Instance Management

Creating pending configurations
Using the WebLogic lock and edit features
Creating a WebLogic Administration Server
Starting and stopping WebLogic managed servers
Using the NodeManager to automatically start and stop WebLogic instances.
Using the WebLogic standby admin mode.
Oracle WebLogic Backup and Recovery

Creating an high availability WebLogic Environment
Making a disaster recovery planning
Building a failover architecture for the WebLogic layer
Managing WebLogic backups for high availability
WebLogic clustering
Create a WebLogic cluster using Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)
Create a WebLogic cluster using JMS and JDBC
Using multi-tier WebLogic Server clusters
Oracle WebLogic security administration

Creating security policies
HTTP server security
WebLogic security nodes
Examining incoming HTTP requests
Rejecting hacked URL requests
Enabling JMS message quotas
Using WebLogic keys, SSL, wallets and certificates
Configuring the WebLogic Java Transaction API (JTA) for transaction timeout
Oracle WebLogic user administration and Maintenance
Administering the HTTP Server authorized connections
Creating WebLogic users
Oracle WebLogic pre-spawned connections to Oracle
WebLogic privilege and security management
Deploying new WebLogic Applications

WebLogic deployment best practices
Unit, functional and systems testing of a new WebLogic application
Benchmarking stress testing of a new WebLogic application
Creating a WebLogic deployment plan
Tracking WebLogic domain changes
Using ConfigToScript in WLST
Understanding the WebLogic Deployer
Scheduling automatic deployment at a specific date-time
Using staging modes
WebLogic connections to database layer

Connecting WebLogic to non-Oracle databases
Using JDBC with WebLogic
Using WebLogic system modules and application modules
Connecting WebLogic to multiple Oracle databases
WebLogic Java Messaging System (JMS)
Creating a JMS Server
Make JMS destinations
Using JMS Connection Factories
Understanding the JMS persistence store
Setup JMS message throttling
Creating JMS messagethresholds
Using the JMS message bridge
Oracle WebLogic Performance Tuning

WebLogic Monitoring and troubleshooting
Look-up error messages using the WebLogic Message Catalog
Using the WebLogic logs with WLST
Measuring WebLogic Server Native I/O
Viewing the logs using UNIX/Linux grep and other UNIX Solaris system utilities
Using difference log files for WebLogic monitoring
Tracing a dye application request through the JDBC subsystem (WebLogic request dyeing with the dye injection monitor)
Oracle WebLogic Diagnostic Framework (WLDF) to create notifications andwatches
Using SNMP to trap errors
Using a JVM thread dump
Using JVM to see RAM memory stack usage details
Find JDBC memory leaks
Create a debugging flag with WLST and the WebLogic administration console
Writing monitoring scripts using WLST
Tuning the HTTP Server
Monitoring the HTTP logs
HTTP Load Balancing
Tuning the WebLogic instances
Concurrent request monitoring and tuning with the WebLogic work manager
Optimizing WebLogic server RAM and CPU consumption