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IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide

By : Steve Robinson
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IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide

By: Steve Robinson

Overview of this book

Administrators require a secure, scalable, and resilient application infrastructure to support the development of JEE applications and SOA services. IBM’s WebSphere Application Server is optimized for this task, and this book will ensure that you can utilize all that this tool has to offer with the exciting new features of IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0.IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide is fully revised with details of the new functionality of WebSphere Application Server 8.0, including the new installation GUI, managed deployment, and HPEL. With this book in hand, you will be equipped to provide an innovative, performance-based foundation to build, run, and manage JEE applications and SOA services.IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 has been tuned for higher performance out of the box, and numerous enhancements have been made to give you as an administrator more options for increasing runtime performance. This book will allow you to utilize all of these features, including HPEL logging and disabling WebSphere MQ Messaging. You will be taken through how to configure and prepare WebSphere resources for your application deployments, and by the end of IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide, you will be able to successfully manage and tune your WebSphere 8.0 implementation.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Supported OS


WebSphere is supported on the following OS (Operating System) platforms:

  • Windows

  • AIX

  • Linux

  • Solaris

  • i/OS

  • z/OS

Beginning with Version 6.1 and now with Version 8, IBM is supporting open standard specifications and have aligned WAS with a view to a more common approach across all the platforms, to the extent that WAS now works with a large number of Web servers including Apache HTTP Server, Netscape Enterprise Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), IBM HTTP Server for i5/OS, IBM HTTP Server for z/OS, and IBM HTTP Server for AIX/Linux/Microsoft Windows/Solaris.

Following is a table of Platforms and recommended versions of OS:

OS

Supported Version

Linux 32

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.0 Advanced Platform (32- and 64-bit kernels)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 Desktop editions (32- and 64-bit kernels)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10.0 (32- and 64-bit kernels)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11.0 (32- and 64-bit kernels)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.0 (32- and 64-bit kernels)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.0 (32- and 64-bit kernels)

Linux 64

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 Advanced Platform (64-bit kernels only)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 Desktop editions Platform (64-bit kernels only)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.0 (64-bit kernels only)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11.0 (64-bit kernels only)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 (64-bit kernels only)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.0 (64-bit kernels only)

HP-UX

  • HP-UX 11iv2 with Patch Bundle dated December 2007 (64-bit kernel support)

  • HP-UX 11iv3 with Patch Bundle dated September 2009 (64-bit kernel support)

Solaris 32

  • Oracle Solaris Version 10 with a patch cluster dated October 2009 or later (32- and 64-bit kernel support)

Solaris 64

  • Oracle Solaris Version 10 with a patch cluster dated October 2009 or later (64-bit kernel support)

Windows 32

  • Microsoft XP Professional with SP2

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter with SP2 (32- and 64-bit editions)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise with SP2 (32 and 64-bit editions)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard with SP2 (32- and 64-bit editions)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (32- and 64-bit editions)

  • Microsoft Vista Business

  • Microsoft Vista Enterprise

  • Microsoft Vista Ultimate

  • Microsoft Vista Ultimate SP1

  • Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise (32- and 64-bit editions)

  • Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (32- and 64-bit editions)

  • Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (32- and 64-bit editions)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter with SP1 (32- and 64-bit editions)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise with SP1 (32 and 64-bit editions)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard with SP1 (32- and 64-bit editions)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Standard (64-bit edition only)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise (64-bit edition only)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Datacenter (64-bit edition only)

Windows 64

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with SP2 (64-bit edition only)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter with SP2 (64-bit edition only)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard with SP2 (64-bit edition only)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 (64-bit editions only)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise with SP1 (64-bit edition only)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter with SP1 (64-bit edition only)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard with SP1 (64-bit edition only)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Standard (64-bit edition only)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise (64-bit edition only)

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Datacenter (64-bit edition only)

AIX 32

  • AIX 6.1 with Recommended Maintenance package 6100-00-04

AIX 64

  • AIX 6.1 with Recommended Maintenance package 6100-00-04

z/OS 32

  • z/OS: V1.10, 1.11, or 1.12

z/OS 64

  • z/OS: V1.10, 1.11, or 1.12