The WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 Performance Tuning (WA815G) course provides intermediate skills for anyone who works on WebSphere related applications and projects, including administrators, IBM Business Partners, independent software vendors, and consultants.
The course is applicable to users running WebSphere Application Server on various platforms including IBM i systems.
- Apply performance tuning methods to WebSphere Application Servers
- Perform load testing by using Apache JMeter
- Monitor application server performance by using WebSphere and the IBM Support Assistant
- Monitor and tune the JVM for optimum throughput and response time
- Monitor and tune connection pools for optimum performance
- Implement best practices for general WebSphere runtime performance
- Use the IBM Health Center tool to profile and tune Java EE applications
- Load test and monitor an application server cluster
- Course introduction
- WebSphere Application Server systems and components
- Overview of performance concepts and tuning tasks
- Exercise: POD configuration
- Apache JMeter and load testing
- Exercise: Apache JMeter basics
- Exercise: DayTrader Benchmark installation
- Exercise: Using Apache JMeter to load test DayTrader
- WebSphere performance data and tools
- Exercise: Performance monitoring tools
- WebSphere performance tuning methods
- Introduction to the JVM
- Exercise: Exploring GC policies and monitoring JVM performance
- Tuning the JVM
- Exercise: Tuning the JVM
- Exercise: Troubleshooting JVM problems
- Tuning the connection pool
- Exercise: Tuning JDBC connection pools and enabling servlet caching
- WebSphere runtime performance tuning
- Application profiling and tuning
- Exercise: Application profiling with Java Health Center
- WebSphere clusters and scalability
- Exercise: Load testing an application server cluster
- Course summary
- WebSphere Administrators
- IBM Business Partners
- System Administrators
- Independent Software Vendors
- Consultants
- WebSphere administration skills, which you can learn by successfully completing an IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 or V8.5.5 administration course, WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Administration (WA585) / (ZA585) or WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 Administration (WA855) / (ZA855), or through practical experience with administering a WebSphere Application Server environment
- Basic operating skills for the Linux operating system