Book description
If you want to extend your capabilities in administering Oracle WebLogic Server, this is the helping hand you’ve been looking for. With 70 recipes covering both basic and advanced topics, it will provide a new level of expertise.
- Learn how to set a WebLogic environment with stability, high availability and performance
- Premature optmization is the root of all evil. Configure and tune only what really matters.
- Understand what are you doing and why. Every recipe covers the theory behind the practice.
In Detail
Oracle WebLogic Server is the core application server product of the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform.
It is the premier application server for enterprise applications and has now been updated to 12C.
If your company or client uses Oracle technology then you must know how to administer the Oracle WebLogic Server
Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook guides you through 70 recipes covering from the basics of WebLogic 12c installation, and passing through JDBC, JMS, cluster configuration and tuning. The book covers the day-by-day tasks of a WebLogic Administrator, enhanced with a lot of tips to build a WebLogic production environment focused on stability, high availability and performance.
The best place to start with any book is at the beginning so the first thing that is covered is the basics. This quick refresher should get you back up to speed with WebLogic server and get you in the right frame of mind to get stuck into the more complex techniques.
Each chapter then covers a specific topic with complex solutions simplified and explained. This is not only a book that guides you through complex techniques but also ensure you have a solid understanding of the theory behind the techniques.
We dive into high availability clusters, configuring JMS and JDBC, and then moving on to more general WebLogic Server aspects. Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune the performance of your WebLogic server with time tested solutions.
If you want to take your WebLogic server to the next level of performance and security or simply just want to be more in control this book is full of solutions that will allow you to achieve that aim.
Table of contents
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Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. Install, Configure, and Run
- Introduction
- Installing WebLogic Server 12c
- Creating the WebLogic domain
- Distributing the domain files to remote machines
- Starting the Node Manager
- Starting the Administration Server
- Saving and activating changes in the Administration Console
- Protecting changes in the Administration Console
- Extending and customizing the Administration Console
- Enabling RESTful Management Services
- Starting/Stopping the WebLogic Managed Server
- Deploying applications
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2. High Availability with WebLogic Clusters
- Introduction
- Creating a WebLogic cluster
- Defining a Hostname/Alias for the Listen Address value
- Configuring HA WebLogic cluster parameters
- Using Unicast for cluster communications
- Using Multicast for cluster communications
- Installing Apache HTTP Server for the Web tier
- Using the Web Server Plug-in to load balance HTTP Requests to WebLogic cluster
- Defining a network channel for cluster communications
- Configuring high availability for Administration Server
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3. Configuring JDBC Resources for High Availability
- Introduction
- Creating a JDBC data source
- Creating a multi data source
- Defining the multi data source HA Strategy
- Creating a GridLink data source
- Managing JDBC data sources
- Tuning data sources for reliable connections
- Tuning multi data sources – surviving RAC node failures
- Updating the Oracle JDBC driver
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4. Configuring JMS Resources for Clustering and High Availability
- Introduction
- Creating the file stores
- Creating the JDBC stores
- Creating the JMS servers
- Creating the JMS module
- Configuring the subdeployment target
- Creating the distributed queue destination and the connection factory
- Starting/stopping consumers for a JMS destination
- Using the Server affinity to tune the distributed destinations' load balance
- Creating a pinned queue with clustering and HA with service migration
- Configuring messaging bridge with source and target distributed destinations
- Relying on SAF to transfer JMS messages to another WebLogic domain
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5. Monitoring WebLogic Server 12c
- Introduction
- Customizing the Administration Console tables
- Using the JRockit Mission Control Management Console
- Monitoring Linux with SAR
- Sending e-mail notifications with WLDF
- Generating an SNMP trap
- Creating a Monitoring Dashboard custom view
- Viewing historical data in the monitoring dashboard using a database
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6. Troubleshooting WebLogic Server 12c
- Introduction
- Changing log levels to debug
- Including the time taken field in access.log
- Enabling verbose garbage collection logging
- Taking thread dumps
- Enabling the JRockit Mission Control Flight Recorder
- Analyzing a heap dump
- Recovering the WebLogic admin password
- Recovering the data source password
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7. Stability and Performance
- Introduction
- Limiting the log disk usage
- Rotating the STDOUT logfile
- Turning off domain logging
- Enabling Linux HugePages
- Configuring the transaction (JTA) timeouts
- Choosing the JRockit garbage collection mode
- Tuning thread concurrency with the default work manager
- Tuning the application thread concurrency with custom work managers
- Limiting the JMS Queue consumers
- 8. Security
- Index
Product information
- Title: Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Advanced Administration Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849686846
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