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Peoplesoft - Tuning & Configuring the Tuxedo Layer

TUXEDO is the leading Transaction Manager, Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), software in the world today and is used by thousands of large companies as a framework, including Peoplesoft®.  

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Description:

This 3-day course is geared towards the administrator who wants to learn how to configure, administer and maintain the TUXEDO middleware layer for any Peoplesoft® release level.  The goal is to ensure a fault-tolerant, scalable environment using the full capabilities of the TUXEDO software.   This modular course stresses maximum availability while developing the skills necessary to deploy and administer a production TUXEDO /Peoplesoft® application.  In addition, tuning and troubleshooting Best Practices and Guidelines are introduced to ensure the administer has the necessary skills to enable a true 7x24 hour system.

Audience:

Peoplesoft Administrators, Developers DBA's and Project Leaders 

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Prerequisites:

·        Basic Unix or Windows system administration experience

·        Completion of the Peoplesoft Configuration and Administration Course OR 3-6 months practical experience

·        Database experience is a plus

Duration:  3 days

Hands-on Exercises:  No

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Topics:  

·        An Introduction to Middleware

·        What is Tuxedo?

o       Define the Client/Server Model

o        What are Tuxedo Clients and Servers?

o       Server Distribution

o       Communication Paradigms

o       Global Transactions

o       Tuxedo Buffer Types

o       Introduction of Application Configuration and Administration

·        Tuxedo and Peoplesoft Relationship

o       How Do They Fit Together?

o       Architecture

·        The Basic Configuration

o       The Tuxedo Configuration File

o       Startup/Shutdown Commands

o       Environment Variables

o       When Things Go Wrong...

o       *RESOURCES Section

o       *MACHINES Section

o       *GROUPS Section

o       *SERVERS Section

o       *SERVICES Section

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·        Peoplesoft Servers and Configuration

o       PSAUTH , PSAPISRV (version 7.x), PSAPPSRV,  PSQCKSRV, PSSAMSRV, PSQRYSRV

o       Publish and Subscribe Servers

o       Ren, Watch, and MCF Servers

o       Environment Variables

o       Configuration Files and Assembly Process

o       LogFiles

·        How to Configure a Networked Environment

o       What is it?

o       *NETWORK Section

o       *NETGROUPS Section   

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·        How to Configure the EventBroker

o       What is it?

o       Describe the publish and subscribe algorithm

o       System events vs.User Events

o       Notification Methods

o       EventBroker Configuration

·        How to Configure Security

o       Security Types/Levels

o       Encryption Levels

o       Configuration File Entries

o       ACLs (Access Control Lists)  

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·        How to Configure /WS

o       What is /WS?

o       Connection Procedure

o       Environment Variables

o       Configuration Parameters

·        How to Configure Jolt

o       What is /Jolt?

o       Jolt Architecture

o       Configuration Parameters

o       Relay Environment  

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·        Application Administration (Command-Line Based)

o       Explain the use of tmadmin  

o       Define the subcommands of tmadmin

o       Writing Script/Batch Files with tmadmin

·        Peoplesoft Application Configuration

o       Configuration File Suggestions

o       Use of psadmin  

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·        Application Administration (Web Based GUI)

o       What is the GUI?

o       Web Based GUI Architecture

o       Startup Commands

o       Use of the Tool

·        Using the MIBs

o       What are the MIBs?

o       MIB Categories

o       MIB Hierarchy

o       MIB Requests

o       MIB Query Examples  

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·        Tuning/Troubleshooting

o       Guidelines

o       Tips and Tricks

o       Logfile Interpretation

o       Performance Reporting Tool – txrpt

o       Tracing Facility

o       Tuning the IPC Resources  

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