BEA Tuxedo® System 6.5 and Middleware Concepts Administrators Course Syllabus

This is an intense 5 day course with many labs. All labs are accomplished using MS Windows NT 4.0 and MS Visual C++.

Key Benefits:

Teaches students how to configure and administer an n-tier BEA Tuxedo application.

Particular attention is paid to 'best practices' and n-tier principles.

Offers specially designed hands-on labs that enable students to gain more practical experience with BEA Tuxedo in a controlled environment.

Students will gain practical experience via the lab exercises that follow each section. Each lab exercise builds upon the previous one so it is imperative that students do not miss any class time.

Audience:

Application Administrators, System Administrators, Designers and Developers.

Student Prerequisites:

Some knowledge of C/C++ is helpful.
Working knowledge of Windows/NT or UNIX administration.

Lab Exercises:

LAB 1 - Configuring the SIMPAPP simple application
LAB 2 - Application Configuration 1
LAB 3 - Application Configuration 2
LAB 4 - Network Configuration
LAB 5 - Data Dependent Routing
LAB 6 - Using the TMADMIN Utility
LAB 7 - Using the Web-based GUI
LAB 8 - Transactions
LAB 9 - Tuning and troubleshooting an Application
LAB 10 - /WS The Workstation Extension
LAB 11 - BEA TUXEDO System Security
LAB 12 - /Q The Queued Message facility
LAB 13 - Accessing BEA TUXEDO MIBs
LAB 14 - BEA TUXEDO /Domains

Course Agenda

Students will sign-in each day, and are required to complete a course evaluation at the end of the week. Copies of the completed evaluation forms will be provided to the Client Company.

Note: This Course Agenda is subject to change based upon student feedback during the course.

• The BEA TUXEDO® Administrators duties and responsibilities
• Overview and features of BEA Tuxedo®
• Enhanced Client/Server architecture
• Message Buffers - FML32, View32, String & CARRAY
• Overview of Communication Paradigms
• Installing BEA Tuxedo®
• Determining disk space requirements and installation location
• Components of a BEA Tuxedo® application
• Introduction to the UBBCONFIG configuration file
• Features and configuration tasks required for distributed applications
• Propagating files to all nodes
• The tlisten process
• Data compression and load balancing for networked applications
• Start-up and shut down an application

• Data Dependent Routing
• Explanation of configuration changes needed for a distributed application
• *ROUTING section
• Configuration and administration using tmadmin
• Monitoring a running system using tmadmin
• Modify a system using tmadmin
• Introduction to the Web-based GUI
• Configuring and running tuxwsvr and wlisten
• Starting the Web-based GUI from a web browser
• Web-based GUI navigation, features and use
• Distributed global transaction processing
• Configuring BEA Tuxedo® to support transaction processing
• BEA Tuxedo® Device File and UDL
• Transaction Log (TLOG)
• Best practices and troubleshooting transactional configuration problems

• Configuring MSSQ sets and when to use them
• Service Timing Statistics using txrpt
• Choosing service load factors
• Choosing service priorities
• Packaging services into servers and when to re-package
• Finding application bottlenecks
• Tuning the system IPC parameters
• Resolving problems in networked applications
• Explanation of the ULOG and detection of errors
• Server Migration from one machine to another

• Introduction to /WS
• Configuring Workstation Clients: WSL and WSH
• Administration differences between /WS clients and native clients
• Environment variables required for /WS clients
• Introduction to Security
• Different levels of Authentication and Authorization
• Configuration changes to implement Security
• How to add, delete, and modify users and groups
• Explain Link-Level Encryption (LLE)
• Introduction to /Q
• Configuring TMQUEUE, TMFORWARD, TMS_QM servers
• Using qmadmin to Configure, Create and Administer /Q

• Introduction to /Domains
• Explanation of domain components, different types of gateways, and features
• Explanation of Remote Domains and Local Domains
• Environment variables needed to configure a domain
• Configuring the DMCONFIG file
• Using dmadmin to administer /Domains
• Description of the six BEA Tuxedo® Management Information Bases (MIBs)
• Explanation of the intent of each of the six MIBs
• Creating MIB request messages using ud32
• Modifying the MIB using tmconfig
• Review and Open Session