After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Install and configure an IBM Integration Bus instance
• Establish, maintain, and manage an integration node
• Administer IBM Integration Bus components and message flow applications by using the IBM Integration web user interface and command interface
• Configure connectivity to IBM MQ to enable IBM Integration Bus to get messages from, or put messages to, queues on a local or remote queue manager
• Implement IBM Integration Bus administration and message flow security
• Use problem determination aids to diagnose and solve development and runtime errors
• Use the IBM Integration web user interface to generate and display message flow statistics
• Use IBM MQ or MQTT to publish and subscribe to IBM Integration Bus topics
• Implement an IBM Integration Bus global cache to store, reuse, and share data between integration nodes
• Use workload management policies to adjust the processing speed of messages and control the actions that are taken on unresponsive flows and threads
• Use the IBM Integration web user interface and a database to record events and replay messages
• Enable an integration node to connect to a database with ODBC and JDBC
• Configure a Java Message Services (JMS) provider for use with the JMS nodes
• Configure IBM Integration Bus for the secure file transfer protocol (SFTP)
• Find and install IBM Integration Bus SupportPac components

• Course introduction
• IBM Integration Bus overview
• Product installation, configuration, and security planning
  • Exercise: Integration node setup and customization
• Connecting to IBM MQ
  • Exercise: Connecting to IBM MQ
• Administration in the IBM Integration Toolkit
  • Exercise: Using the IBM Integration Toolkit
• Administration basics
  • Exercise: Administering the IBM Integration Bus runtime components
• Implementing IBM Integration Bus administration security
  • Exercise: Using file-based security to control administration access
  • Exercise: Using queue-based security to control administration access
• Implementing IBM Integration Bus message flow security
• Administering web services and web service security
  • Exercise: Implementing web services and web services security
• Diagnosing problems
  • Exercise: Using problem diagnosis tools
  • Exercise: Identifying runtime problems
• Monitoring the integration node and message flow performance
• Publish/subscribe implementation overview
  • Exercise: Viewing runtime statistics
• Configuring IBM Integration Bus for high availability
  • Exercise: Administering workload management policies
• Monitoring, recording and replaying message flow events
  • Exercise: Recording and replaying message flow data
•  Extending IBM Integration Bus
• Course summary

• IBM Integration Bus Administrators
• Developers who administer IBM Integration Bus

Before taking this course, you should:

• Have hands-on experience with the Windows operating system;
• Be familiar with basic security practices and protocols such as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP);
• Experience with IBM Integration Bus message flow development and IBM MQ system administration is helpful, but not required.