UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION
Course Overview
Duration: 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
- Describe the course objectives.
- Outline the course agenda.
- Understand how to use the training materials.
Lesson 1. Performance Overview
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
- Define the basic performance terminologies.
- Describe the different factors that affect the performance, and concepts to resolve the performance problems.
Exercise 1. Performance Overview
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
- Lab environment setup.
- Stop and Start Sterling B2B Integrator.
- Match the performance term.
Lesson 2. Architecture and Performance
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
- 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 Configuration
Duration: 2 hours
Learning objectives:
- 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 hour
Learning objectives:
- 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:
- 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:
- Describe the Sterling B2B Integrator Dashboard.
- Configure the Dashboard.
Exercise 2. Sterling B2B Integrator Dashboard
Duration: 2 hours
Learning objectives:
Lesson 3. Business Process Design Issues
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Locate mailboxes in Sterling B2B Integrator.
UNIT 3: UTILITIES
Lesson 1. Performance Overview
Duration: 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
- 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:
- Create JDBC report.
- Generate Statistics Report
Lesson 2. Performance Tuning Utility
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
- 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.
Exercise 2. Performance Tuning Utility
Duration: 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
- View Initial performance settings.
- Working with performance tuning utility.
Lesson 3. Manual Performance Tuning
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
- 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:
- Overriding Property File Settings.
- Queue Watcher
- Disable Passphrase
Lesson 4. Performance Statistics Report
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
- 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:
- Create Performance Statistics Report
- Deleting Performance Statistics Reports
UNIT 4: SYSTEM HEALTH
Lesson 1. Troubleshooter
Duration: 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
- 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:
Lesson 2. Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Create a Report Schedule.
Lesson 5. HealthCheck Utility
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
- Explain about HealthCheck tool.
- Discuss the importance of HealthCheck tool.
- Explain the procedure to install HealthCheck tool.
- Describe the steps to customize HealthCheck tool.
- Explain the importance of the scripts in Sterling B2B Integrator.
Exercise 5. HealthCheck Utility
Duration: 1 hour
Learning objectives:
- Access HealthCheck User Interface.
- HealthCheck Command.
- Access HealthCheck property file.
- Run Business Process.
- Create Database Details.
- Course Wrap Up
Duration: 30 minutes
Learning objectives:
- 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.