IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Administration and Tuning

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.

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

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.