Course materials may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the prior written permission of IBM. 9.1 Unit objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to: • Explain how the course met its learning objectives • Access the IBM Training website • Identify other IBM Training courses that are related to this topic • Locate appropriate resources for further study
Course learning objectives After completing this course, you should be able to: • Apply performance tuning methods to WebSphere Application Servers • Perform load testing by using Apache JMeter • Monitor application server performance by using WebSphere and the IBM Support Assistant • Monitor and tune the JVM for optimum throughput and response time • Monitor and tune connection pools for optimum performance • Implement best practices for general WebSphere runtime performance • Use the IBM Health Center tool to profile and tune Java EE applications • Load test and monitor an application server cluster
To learn more on the subject • IBM Training website: www.ibm.com/training • Web pages – WebSphere: http://www.ibm.com/websphere – WebSphere Support page: http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/support – IBM developerWorks: WebSphere Application Server zone http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/was
References (1 of 2) • Redbooks: www.redbooks.ibm.com – SG24- 8056-00 WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Administration and Configuration Guide – SG24-6392- 00 WebSphere Application Server V6 Scalability and Performance Handbook – SG24-7584-00 IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 on the Solaris10 Operating System • developerWorks Forums https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums – WebSphere Application Server – Application Performance Diagnostics – IBM Support Assistant forum – IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java - Health Center
References (2 of 2) • IBM information centers – WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Information Center http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/index.jsp – IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 6 http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/javasdk/v6r0/ topic/com.ibm.java.doc.60_26/homepage/ plugin-homepage-java626.html – IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 7 http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/java7sdk/v7r0/index.jsp
• IBM Developer Kit and Runtime Environment, Java Technology Edition,
Version 6 Diagnostics Guide – http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/jdk/ diagnosis/diag60.pdf
Unit summary Having completed this unit, you should be able to: • Explain how the course met its learning objectives • Access the IBM Training website • Identify other IBM Training courses that are related to this topic • Locate appropriate resources for further study