Oracle Database 10g is the first database designed for grid computing, the most flexible and cost-effective way to manage enterprise information. It cuts costs of management while providing the highest possible quality of service.

In addition to providing numerous quality and performance enhancements, Oracle Database 10g significantly reduces the costs of managing the IT environment, with a simplified install, greatly reduced configuration and management requirements, and automatic performance diagnosis and SQL tuning.

This course addresses the administration of Oracle's Application Server 10g.

This course is focused on:

• Managing Customized Topologies and Distributing Infrastructure Components
• High Availability
• Managing and Configuring Clusters
• Business Intelligence Component Management
• XML Applications, Web Services, and Monitoring
• Tuning and Reconfiguring the Middle Tier
• Backup and Recovery

What You'll Learn

• Common deployment topologies and how to install and configure Oracle Application Server components to suit different needs
• High availability and its importance from the perspective of application servers and the high availability features in Oracle Application Server at the OC4J level
• Manage and configure clusters in OracleAS 10g
• Business Intelligence components such as Oracle AS Discoverer and OracleAS Reports and how to deploy reports and forms applications to OracleAS
• Deploy XML applications and web services with Oracle AS
• The monitoring capabilities of Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Server Control
• Optimize the performance of Oracle Application Server components and perform reconfiguration tasks in the Oracle Application Server middle tier and infrastructure
• Perform backup and recovery procedures in OracleAS

Who Needs to Attend

DBAs, developers, and other IT professionals planning to take Oracle Application Server 10g certification examinations; anyone interested in the technical aspects of Oracle Application Server 10g

Prerequisites

Working experience with Linux operating systems; some experience in Internet-based application administration and development would be beneficial; a good understanding of Oracle Application Server components and concepts

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

1. OracleAS 10g: Managing Customized Topologies and Distributing Infrastructure Components

• New features available for managing customized topologies and some of the key deployment considerations
• Main considerations for evaluating general development topologies
• Key considerations when evaluating the departmental, development life cycle, and data center topologies
• Evaluate recommended development and deployment topologies
• Features of Cold Failover Clusters, Active Failover Clusters, and Identity Management replication as part of high availability deployments
• Use multiple metadata repositories and list the requirements for installing OracleAS Infrastructure using an existing Oracle9i database
• Install OracleAS Infrastructure by using an existing Infrastructure component
• Install a Metadata Repository into an existing database and install the Infrastructure using the existing repository
• Upgrade a distributed OracleAS environment and recognize the effect of an upgrade on system availability
• Steps involved in the procedure for upgrading the middle tier, Metadata Repository, and Identity Management Services
• Upgrade a system to Oracle AS 10g

2. OracleAS 10g: High Availability

• Concepts associated with high availability and the features of Oracle's end-to-end high availability solution
• Determine the appropriate method of providing high availability for applications and the middle tier
• Determine the appropriate method of providing high availability for OracleAS Infrastructure using clustering
• Outline the site-to-site high availability solution for OracleAS Infrastructure
• Determine a high availability solution for a given scenario
• Benefits of J2EE clustering and the configuration of islands
• Concepts involved in session and application replication for high availability solutions
• Create an OC4J island, configure state replication, and monitor virtual machine metrics
• Configure clustering of OC4J Java Virtual Machines

3. OracleAS 10g: Managing and Configuring Clusters

• Clustering and how OracleAS Web Cache clusters work
• Configure Web Cache cluster members and settings and identify how to invalidate the cache
• Configure session binding and monitor cache cluster performance
• Configure web cache cluster settings, add an additional web cache to a cache cluster, and obtain performance statistics for the web cache
• Create an OracleAS Farm using a file-based repository
• Characteristics of OracleAS clusters managed using a repository
• Role of OPMN, DCM, and mod_oc4j in OracleAS cluster management
• Create, stop, and start an OracleAS cluster, add and remove instances, and identify how to create an OracleAS cluster using dcmct1
• Create clusters and add standalone instances
• Outline the architecture of OracleAS Infrastructure Cold Failover Clusters and identify how to install middle tiers in a CFC environment
• Identify the steps involved in installing and starting an OracleAS Infrastructure in a Cold Failover Cluster and identify how to manage and test a failover

4. OracleAS 10g: Business Intelligence Component Management

• Monitor OracleAS Report Services and control and configure OracleAS Discoverer
• Configure OracleAS Discoverer Plus, Discoverer Viewer, and Discoverer Portlet Provider, and register Discoverer Portlet Provider
• Control OracleAS Discoverer services
• Identify features for monitoring OracleAS Discoverer, identify the configuration files used with Discoverer, and use the EUL command-line tool for Java
• Capabilities of OracleAS Reports Services and how its components contribute to the running of a report
• Identify Reports Services configuration files and configure the Reports Server and the Reports Servlet
• Identify how to deploy reports using OracleAS Reports Services
• Configure Reports Services and deploy a Reports application
• Outline the architecture of Forms Services and identify the role of each Forms Service component in running an application
• Identify the configuration files and the levels of configuration associated with OracleAS Forms Services, identify how the configuration files are used at runtime, and use Application Server Control for configuration tasks
• Configure the Forms Servlet using Application Server Control
• Configure environmental variables in a Forms runtime environment, manage user sessions, and identify how to deploy Forms applications and their associated files
• Configure the Forms Servlet for a new testing environment

5. OracleAS 10g: XML Applications, Web Services, and Monitoring

• Define terms associated with XML, identify the Oracle XML and XDK components, and identify the steps in the XML parsing process
• Recognize how an XSQL servlet functions, initialize the XSQL demo application, and create and access an XSQL page
• Web services standards, why organizations use Web services, and the Web services architecture and communication flow
• Main features of SOAP and how to invoke, manage, and deploy Web services, and how to implement a stateless Java Web service
• Use Web services and XSQL
• Log Loader tasks and search log files
• Configure diagnostic message correlation
• Manage and troubleshoot the Log Loader
• Use the log repository to monitor OracleAS

6. OracleAS 10g: Tuning and Reconfiguring the Middle Tier

• How to monitor the performance of Oracle Application Server
• Monitor performance and analyze performance issues in OracleAS
• Monitor and tune the performance of OC4J processes and applications
• Monitor OracleAS system components
• Set up data sources and connection attributes
• Useful hints and tips for tuning servlets, JSPs, EJBs, and the web cache
• Monitor and tune the performance of OracleAS Web Cache and Forms Services
• Configure browser keep-alive and origin server response timeouts and monitor metrics for a Forms Service instance
• Expand a middle tier installation in OracleAS in a given scenario
• Configure services after installation in OracleAS
• Expand a middle tier and configure Forms Services in a given scenario
• Associate installations with the Infrastructure and remove instances in OracleAS
• Steps for changing the host name and IP address on the middle tier and the IP address on the Infrastructure
• Associate a J2EE and Web Cache installation with Identity Management and change the host name on the server hosting Oracle Application Server middle tier

7. OracleAS 10g: Backup and Recovery

• Type of Oracle Application Server backup to perform in a given scenario
• How to configure and use the OracleAS Backup and Recovery Tool
• Steps for performing backup procedures in OracleAS
• Steps for restoring OracleAS infrastructure or middle-tier installations from backup
• Back up and restore OracleAS configurations