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IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Administration and Tuning
Sterling B2B Integrator Administration and Tuning course guides you through managing user accounts, designingdashboard themes for the user accounts, and tuning business processes and the Sterling B2B...
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$3,800 USD
Duration
4 days
Course Code
6F154G
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
This course is available in other formats.
Self-Paced
Self-Paced
Overview
Sterling B2B Integrator Administration and Tuning course guides you through managing user accounts, designingdashboard themes for the user accounts, and tuning business processes and the Sterling B2B Integration Suite server to meet your system performance requirements. You will also learn about sizing performance problems and the tools to monitor and diagnose these problems.
Skills Gained
After completing this course, students should be able to:- Identify and solve basic performance related problems.- Identify potential performance problems areas in the Sterling B2B Integrator architecture.- Manage Sterling B2B Integrator permissions, user accounts, and groups.- Describe the purpose of the Dashboard panes and portals and configure the Dashboard.- Explain the concepts, design methods, issues, best practices and guidelines to create and implement the business processes.- Describe Mailbox Management in Sterling B2B Integrator.- Explain different performance issues and identify its sources.- Use the Performance Tuning Utility to test a system and to adjust performance parameters to increase performance.- Elaborate the procedure to manually modify properties to increase performance.- Explain the procedure to capture and analyze Performance Statistics Report and define the steps to configure thread dumps.- Use the Sterling B2B Integrator Troubleshooter utility to troubleshoot and analyze problems.- Use monitoring and diagnostic tools to monitor system status and identify errors on a server.- Use services to maintain clean up the Sterling B2B Integrator system.- Explain the usage of schedules in Sterling B2B Integrator.
Who Can Benefit
System administrators, developers, testers,supporters and performance tuners.
Prerequisites
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Course Details
Course Outline
UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION
Course OverviewDuration: 30 minutesLearning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:- Describe the course objectives.- Outline the course agenda.- Understand how to use the training materials.
Lesson 1. Performance OverviewDuration : 1 hourLearning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:- Define the basic performance terminologies.- Describe the different factors that affect the performance, and concepts to resolve the performance problems.
Exercise 1. Performance OverviewDuration : 1 hourLearning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:- Lab environment setup- Stop and Start Sterling B2B Integrator.- Match the performance term.
Lesson 2. Architecture and PerformanceDuration : 2 hours 30 minutesLearning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:- Describe the Sterling B2B Integrator system hierarchy and components.- Describe high-level Sterling B2B Integrator architecture and identify potential problem areas.- Identify potential performance problem areas in the Sterling B2B Integrator architecture.
Lesson 3. Installation and ConfigurationDuration : 2 hoursLearning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:- Maintain installation checklist- Install IBM® Sterling B2B Integrator on your workstation- Validate the installation- Describe the methods to set up, monitor, and start and stop the Adapter containers.
UNIT 2. ADMINISTRATION
Lesson 1. Accounts
Duration : 1 hourLearning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
- Describe the password policy.
- Manage passwords, permissions, user accounts, and groups.
- Explain roles-based security.
- Usage of system news and my account option.
Exercise 1. Accounts
Duration : 1 hour
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Create the password policy.
- Create permission
- Create a Group.
- Create a user account to test group
- Create user news message.
Lesson 2. Sterling B2B Integrator Dashboard
Duration : 2 hours
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
- Describe the Sterling B2B Integrator Dashboard.
- Configure the Dashboard.
Lesson 3. Business Process Design Issues
Duration : 1 hour
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
- Describe basic business process concepts.
- Monitor and manage business processes.
- Set performance-related options on the check-in screen.
- Manually run a business process and track results.
- List guidelines and best practices for business process design and efficient processing.
- Describe the thread monitor function.
- Explain the guidelines for large file handling.
Exercise 3. Business Process Design Issues
Duration : 2 hours
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Persistence level business process.
- Document Storage Settings.
- Monitor invoke mode configuration
- Using message tags.
- Sleep Service.
Lesson 4. Mailbox Management
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
- Describe Sterling B2B Integrator mailboxes
- Add and view data in a mailbox
- Extract data from a mailbox
- Describe the impact of mailbox in Sterling B2B Integrator performance
Exercise 4. Mailbox Management
Duration: 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Locate mailboxes in Sterling B2B Integrator.
UNIT 3: UTILITIES
Lesson 1. Performance Overview
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
- Describe common problem symptoms.
- List problem isolation methods to use to help identify areas of concern.
- Identify most likely sources of specific trouble.
- Identify database performance issues.
- Analyze memory and cache related issues.
Exercise 1. Performance Overview
Duration: 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Create JDBC report.
- Generate Statistics Report
Lesson 2. Performance Tuning Utility
Duration : 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
- Describe the function of the Performance Tuning Utility.
- List the values needed to start the Performance Tuning Utility.
- Distinguish default values from calculated values on the performance settings page.
- Use the Performance Tuning Utility to adjust performance parameters to enable Sterling B2B Integrator to run more efficiently business scenarios.
Exercise 2. Performance Tuning Utility
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- View Initial performance settings.
- Working with performance tuning utility.
Lesson 3. Manual Performance Tuning
Duration : 1 hour
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Identify the main areas of Sterling B2B Integrator where manual tuning can be applied.
- List the most common properties files to change.
- Modify key properties files to tune various aspects of Sterling B2B Integrator.
- Identify the functions that help troubleshoot a problem.
Exercise 3. Manual Performance Tuning
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Overriding Property File Settings.
- Queue Watcher.
- Disable Passphrase.
Lesson 4. Performance Statistics Report
Duration : 1 hour
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Describe the function of the Performance Statistics Report.
- Enable performance statistics and create a Performance Statistics Report.
- Identify the fields in a Performance Statistics Report.
- Use the Performance Statistics Report to analyze business processes and system process activity.
- Change the business processes and performance parameters and view the results in the Performance Statistics Report.
- Follow the performance tuning methodology to identify performance problems.
- Describe the function of JVM Monitors.
- Define steps to configure the thread dumps on various operating systems.
- Explain reading thread dumps.
Exercise 4. Performance Statistics Report
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Create Performance Statistics Report
- Deleting Performance Statistics Reports
UNIT 4: SYSTEM HEALTH
Lesson 1. Troubleshooter
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:- View Database Usage, Services, and Pools.- View BP Queue, Usage statistics, and State information.- Resume, restart, or terminate a BP.- View system classpath and JNDI tree information.- View the cleanup process.- View environment statistics, including cache and memory used.- View Remote Perimeter Server information if present.
Exercise 1. Troubleshooter
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Pool connection.
Lesson 2. Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools
Duration : 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
- Identify the most commonly used System Logs and their contents.
- Identify the most commonly used System Reports.
- Explain about Message Monitor to check messages.
Exercise 2. Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools
Duration : 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Read the FTP Server Adapter.
- Accessing FTP Server Through Secured Layer.
- Check in the AT_produce and AT_consume business process.
- Run the AT_Produce Business Process with InventoryOf11.xml.
- Create an Unsuccessful Message.
Lesson 3. Maintenance and Cleanup
Duration : 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
- Index Business Process service
- Archive Business Process service
- Purge service
- Purge Business Process Linkage service
- BPRecovery service
Exercise 3. Maintenance and Cleanup
Duration : 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- View Scheduled Services
- Archive to an Offline Location
- Restore Archived Business Process Data Offline
- Import and Export Using Resource Tags
Lesson 4. Scheduling
Duration : 15 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
- Describe scheduling basics.
- Explain different phases in creating schedules
- Explain the procedure to enable, disable and delete schedules
- Explain the steps to set up schedules for reports and stand-alone services.
Exercise 4. Scheduling
Duration : 15 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Create a Report Schedule.
Lesson 5. Scripts
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
- Explain the importance of the scripts in Sterling B2B Integrator.
Exercise 5. Scripts
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
- Create Database Details.
Course Wrap Up
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
- Explain how the course met its learning objectives.
- Submit an evaluation of the class.
- Identify other IBM learning courses related to this topic.
- Locate appropriate resources for further study.
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