UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION
Course OverviewDuration: 30 minutesLearning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:• Describe the course objectives.• Outline the course agenda.• Understand how to use the training materials.
Lesson 1. Performance OverviewDuration : 1 hourLearning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:• Define the basic performance terminologies.• Describe the different factors that affect the performance, and concepts to resolve the performance problems.
Exercise 1. Performance OverviewDuration : 1 hourLearning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:• Lab environment setup• Stop and Start Sterling B2B Integrator.• Match the performance term.
Lesson 2. Architecture and PerformanceDuration : 2 hours 30 minutesLearning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:• 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 ConfigurationDuration : 2 hoursLearning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:• 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 hourLearning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
• Describe the Sterling B2B Integrator Dashboard.
• Configure the Dashboard.
Lesson 3. Business Process Design Issues
Duration : 1 hour
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• Locate mailboxes in Sterling B2B Integrator.
UNIT 3: UTILITIES
Lesson 1. Performance Overview
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• Create JDBC report.
• Generate Statistics Report
Lesson 2. Performance Tuning Utility
Duration : 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
• 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 business scenarios.
Exercise 2. Performance Tuning Utility
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• View Initial performance settings.
• Working with performance tuning utility.
Lesson 3. Manual Performance Tuning
Duration : 1 hour
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• Overriding Property File Settings.
• Queue Watcher.
• Disable Passphrase.
Lesson 4. Performance Statistics Report
Duration : 1 hour
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• Create Performance Statistics Report
• Deleting Performance Statistics Reports
UNIT 4: SYSTEM HEALTH
Lesson 1. Troubleshooter
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:• 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: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• Pool connection.
Lesson 2. Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools
Duration : 1 hour 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
• 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: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• Create a Report Schedule.
Lesson 5. Scripts
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
• Explain the importance of the scripts in Sterling B2B Integrator.
Exercise 5. Scripts
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:
• Create Database Details.
Course Wrap Up
Duration : 30 minutes
Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:
• 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.
