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IBM® WebSphere® System Administration [Hardcover]

Leigh Williamson (Author), Lavena Chan (Author), Roger Cundiff (Author), Shawn Lauzon (Author), Christopher C. Mitchell (Author)
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0131446045 978-0131446045 July 22, 2004

Make the most of completely revamped administration tools in WebSphere Version 5

IBM WebSphere Version 5 offers a completely rewritten, radically improved infrastructure for administering servers and applications. Now, its creators have written the definitive WebSphere Version 5 administration reference and tutorial: everything you need to manage WebSphere to the highest levels of performance and efficiency.

The authors systematically cover all four WebSphere administration toolsets: command-line utilities, the new Administrative Console, scripting tools, and Java management APIs. You’ll find a complete library of code examples, plus powerful new insider’s tips for maximizing your productivity as a WebSphere administrator.

Whether you’re managing WebSphere Version 5 or incorporating administrative support into new WebSphere applications, this book provides you with the techniques, examples, and tips you need to do it right.

  • Fundamentals of WebSphere administration: servers, nodes, node agents, cells, clusters, and the deployment manager
  • Revamped package structure of WebSphere Version 5 and its implications
  • Process internals, distributed administration features, administrative security, and XML configuration file structure
  • Command-line tools: a complete reference with practical examples
  • Web-based graphical management with the new Administrative Console
  • Scripting the management features of WebSphere Version 5 with wsadmin
  • Writing custom management programs
  • Extending the native WebSphere administrative system with new managed options
  • Using Java administrative APIs to manage WebSphere applications from other products
  • Sum Includes extensive code examples, real-world scenarios, and best practices



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Make the most of completely revamped administration tools in WebSphere Version 5

IBM WebSphere Version 5 offers a completely rewritten, radically improved infrastructure for administering servers and applications. Now, its creators have written the definitive WebSphere Version 5 administration reference and tutorial: everything you need to manage WebSphere to the highest levels of performance and efficiency.

The authors systematically cover all four WebSphere administration toolsets: command-line utilities, the new Administrative Console, scripting tools, and Java management APIs. You’ll find a complete library of code examples, plus powerful new insider’s tips for maximizing your productivity as a WebSphere administrator.

Whether you’re managing WebSphere Version 5 or incorporating administrative support into new WebSphere applications, this book provides you with the techniques, examples, and tips you need to do it right.

  • Fundamentals of WebSphere administration: servers, nodes, node agents, cells, clusters, and the deployment manager
  • Revamped package structure of WebSphere Version 5 and its implications
  • Process internals, distributed administration features, administrative security, and XML configuration file structure
  • Command-line tools: a complete reference with practical examples
  • Web-based graphical management with the new Administrative Console
  • Scripting the management features of WebSphere Version 5 with wsadmin
  • Writing custom management programs
  • Extending the native WebSphere administrative system with new managed options
  • Using Java administrative APIs to manage WebSphere applications from other products
  • Sum Includes extensive code examples, real-world scenarios, and best practices


About the Author

Leigh Williamson led the design and implementation of the WebSphere Version 5 new administrative architecture.

Lavena Chan’s areas of expertise include install, GUI, application management, and scripting.

Roger Cundiff was the first development team member for application server management at IBM in Austin, Texas, and continues to work on WebSphere systems management there.

Shawn Lauzon is working on the next release of WebSphere with Aspect-Oriented Software Design.

Christopher C. Mitchell, lead architect for WebSphere console and configuration, has led WebSphere development teams through several releases.




Product Details

  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: IBM Press (July 22, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0131446045
  • ISBN-13: 978-0131446045
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #293,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Big improvements over Version 4, October 12, 2004
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The authors describe Version 5 of the WebSphere Application Server in straightforward terms. They contrast it with the now passe Version 4. The changes are manifold enough that even if you have run a V4 system, much of this book will be new and useful to you.

Amusingly, the Foreword talks of V4 as "unstable, unextensible, inconsistent across editions". Whew! Kudos for the belated candour. I doubt if any extant V4 literature described it in such terms.

If you're totally new to WebSphere sysadmining, then the book clearly requires that you be familiar with XML, EJBs, SOAP and JMX, at a minimum. It goes quickly into using these, with little preamble setup. Quite understandable from the authors' vantage, but you need to be prepared.

A big change from V4 is the extensive use of JMX. Reassuring for JMX. It's been around some 3 years. Good to see an important package like WebSphere using it. Seems that the V4 combination of EJBs and a relational database to hold parameters may have been too slow. Too heavyweight perhaps for the task? EJBs can have a big computational or network cost. Anyway, V5 replaced these with XML files and JMX. Much faster perhaps.

Scripting is also heavily used in the book. Extensive examples that you might find useful. To me, all scripting languages tend to blur into one. This particular language does not seem any tougher than the Korn or C shells.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Moving beyond the Admin Console, November 18, 2004
This review is from: IBM® WebSphere® System Administration (Hardcover)
Once you have used the admin console.... it's pretty easy. I then started to move over to running commands from the command line within the 'bin' directory. This book takes the administrator past this into the scripting realm. You can get an excellent handle on using Wsadmin scripts just by modifying some of the many examples presented in this book.

I found this book to be more of a solid reference manual for the WebSphere Administrator. It has several scripts for common tasks. In addition, you will find quick reference charts for taks, functions and AdminControl commands (to mention a few). I would consider this book to be an essential quick reference guide for any WebSphere Application Server administrator.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Too much walk-throw/screenshot based, January 6, 2005
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This book was defined as a reference and tutorial, but I have found it to bee too much screeshot based. As an analogy I could say this book has too many phrases similar to "click on the VIEW button to view the details". These things are redundant and I would have preferred to obtain deeper level details instead of high level.

This book is too much oriented on the admin console of Websphere, instead of detailing the whole variety of possible system configurations. I have sincerely found the freely available IBM Redbooks more useful.
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