Overview

Sterling B2B Integrator Administration and Tuning course guides you through managing user accounts, design dashboard themes for the user accounts, and tune business processes and the Sterling B2B Integration Suite server to meet your system performance requirements. You will also learn about sizing performance problems and the tools to monitor and diagnose these problems.

Audience

System administrators, developers, testers,supporters and performance tuners.

Prerequisites

Objective

After completing this course, students should be able to:

• Identify and solve basic performance related problems.
• Identify potential performance problems areas in the Sterling B2B Integrator architecture.
• Manage Sterling B2B Integrator permissions, user accounts, and groups.
• Describe the purpose of the Dashboard panes and portals and configure the Dashboard.
• Explain the concepts, design methods, issues, best practices and guidelines to create and implement the business processes.
• Describe Mailbox Management in Sterling B2B Integrator.
• Explain different performance issues and identify its sources.
• Use the Performance Tuning Utility to test a system and to adjust performance parameters to increase performance.
• Elaborate the procedure to manually modify properties to increase performance.
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• Explain the procedure to capture and analyze Performance Statistics Report and define the steps to configure thread dumps.
• Use the Sterling B2B Integrator Troubleshooter utility to troubleshoot and analyze problems.
• Use monitoring and diagnostic tools to monitor system status and identify errors on a server.
• Use services to maintain clean up the Sterling B2B Integrator system.
• Explain the usage of schedules in Sterling B2B Integrator.
• Describe System Health Check utility and some the scripts files in the bin directory.

Course Outline

UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION

Course Overview

Duration: 30 minutes

Learning 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 Overview

Duration : 1 hour

Learning 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.
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Exercise 1. Performance Overview

Duration : 1 hour

Learning 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 Performance

Duration : 2 hours 30 minutes

Learning 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 Configuration

Duration : 2 hours

Learning 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 hour

Learning 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.

Exercise 2. Sterling B2B Integrator Dashboard

Duration : 2 hours

Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:

• Add a customized pane.

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. 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.

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. HealthCheck Utility

Duration : 1 hour

Learning objectives: After completing this lesson, students should be able to:

• Explain about HealthCheck tool.
• Discuss the importance of HealthCheck tool.
• Explain the procedure to install HealthCheck tool.
• Describe the steps to customize HealthCheck tool.
• Explain the importance of the scripts in Sterling B2B Integrator.

Exercise 5. HealthCheck Utility

Duration : 1 hour

Learning objectives: After completing this exercise, students should be able to:

• Access HealthCheck User Interface.
• HealthCheck Command.
• Access HealthCheck property file.
• Run Business Process.
• 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.