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WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide

By : Steve Robinson
Book Image

WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide

By: Steve Robinson

Overview of this book

As an administrator you need a secure, scalable, resilient application infrastructure to support the developers building and managing J2EE applications and Service Oriented Architecture services. WebSphere application server, a product from IBM, is optimized to ease administration and improve runtime performance. It helps you run applications and services in a reliable, secure, and high-performance environment to ensure business opportunities are not lost due to application downtime. It's easy to get started and tame this powerful application server when you've got this book to hand. This administration guide will help you provide an innovative, performance-based foundation to build, run, and manage J2EE applications and SOA services, offering the highest level of reliability, security, and scalability. This book will take you through the different methods for installing WebSphere application server and demonstrate how to configure and prepare WebSphere resources for your application deployments. During configuration you will be shown how to administer your WebSphere server standalone or using the new administrative agent, which provides the ability to administer multiple installations of WebSphere application server using one single administration console. WebSphere security is covered in detail showing the various methods of implanting federated user and group repositories. The facets of data-aware and message-aware applications are explained and demonstrated giving the reader real-world examples of manual and automated deployments. Key administration features and tools are introduced, which will help a WebSphere administrator manage and tune their WebSphere implementation and application for success.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 10. Product Maintenance

An important role of a WebSphere administrator is to ensure that the product is up-to-date and patched accordingly. IBM frequently makes product updates available as they release improvements as part of their product lifecycles. The goal of this chapter is to instruct you on the options available to you to locate and download product updates, then apply them in the correct manner to your WebSphere Application Server installation.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Locating and downloading updates

  • Update installers

  • Applying updates

  • Verification of updates

  • Silent updates

  • Feature packs

  • Interim features and fixes

  • Backing up your system

  • Installer logs

  • Troubleshooting tips

Understanding updates

All software products can have defects often termed as bugs. Product updates are often released to address known defects. IBM WebSphere has an aggressive product update strategy to keep your product up-to-date, stable, and secure, which will ensure that applications...