Oracle WebLogic Server 14c: Administration II

Course Introduction

• Course Objectives
• Target Audience
• Course Prerequisites
• Introductions and Setting Expectations
• Course Schedule
• Course Practices
• For More Information
• Related Training

WebLogic Server Review

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Oracle WebLogic Server: Overview
• WebLogic Server Domain
• Administration Server
• Managed Servers
• Machines and Clusters
• WebLogic Server Application Services
• WebLogic Server Application: Example
• Agenda
• Start Scripts
• Node Manager
• WebLogic Tools: Administration Console
• WebLogic Tools: WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)
• Deployment
• Summary

Upgrading WebLogic Server

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Definition of Upgrade
• Patch
• Minor Upgrade
• Major Upgrade
• Quiz
• Agenda
• What Is a Rolling Upgrade?
• Multiple Installation and Domain Locations
• Leverage WebLogic Clusters to Avoid Down Time
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Rolling Upgrade Process: Overview
• Backup
• Shutdown
• Upgrade
• Restart
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 3-1 Overview: Setting Up the Course Practice Environment
• Practice 3-2 Overview: Performing a Rolling Upgrade

Creating and Using Domain Templates

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Domain Template Review
• Agenda
• Template
• Template Exclusions
• Script Replacement Variables
• Agenda
• Extension Template: Concepts
• Agenda
• Fusion Middleware (FMW) Templates
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Why Use Custom Templates
• Template Builder
• Selecting the Template Domain Source
• Review Configuration and Create Template
• SQL Scripts and LDAP Data
• Creating an Extension Template
• Using a Custom Template with the Configuration Wizard
• Post Domain Creation Tasks
• Using a Custom Extension Template with the Configuration Wizard
• Summary
• Practice 4-1 Overview: Creating and Using a Custom Domain Template

WebLogic Server Startup and Crash Recovery

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Node Manager Architecture
• Node Manager Default Behavior
• Configure Java-Based Node Manager
• Agenda
• Starting the Node Manager at System Startup
• Configuring the Node Manager as a Windows Service
• Configuring the Node Manager on UNIX Systems
• Primer on Linux systemd and systemctl
• Example NodeManager Service Unit File
• Control and Check Service Status
• Configuring NodeManager with systemd
• Configuring the Node Manager as an inetd Service
• Registering and Managing inetd Services
• Configuring the Node Manager as an xinetd Service
• Agenda
• How the Node Manager Restarts an Administration Server
• How the Node Manager Restarts a Managed Server
• RestartInterval and RestartMax
• Crash Recovery
• CrashRecoveryEnabled
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 5-1 Overview: WebLogic Server Startup and Crash Recovery
• Solaris-Specific Configuration
• Solaris
• Example SMF Manifest File
• Set Up and Start Node Manager with SMF

WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)

• Objectives
• Agenda
• WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)
• Agenda
• Jython
• Using Jython
• Variable Declaration
• Conditional Expressions
• Loop Expressions
• I/O Commands
• Exception Handling
• Quiz
• Agenda
• WLST Modes
• WLST Example
• Running WLST Scripts
• WLST Development Tools
• configToScript()
• Script Recording Using the Administration Console
• Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
• WLST Command Tips
• General WLST Commands
• Offline WLST Commands
• Online WLST Commands
• Quiz
• Agenda
• WebLogic JMX Overview
• Configuration MBeans
• Runtime MBeans
• WebLogic Server MBean Examples
• MBean Properties in the Administration Console
• Browsing MBean Documentation
• Referencing MBeans in WLST
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Creating a Domain Using a Standard Template
• Creating a Domain Using a Custom Template
• Connecting to a Server
• Password Management
• WLST Variables
• Password Management
• Configuring a Server
• Monitoring a Server
• Adding a Server to a Cluster
• Creating a Data Source
• Monitoring a Data Source
• Creating an LDAP Authentication Provider
• Modifying a Domain Offline
• Deploying an Application
• Creating a Dynamic Cluster
• Scaling Up a Dynamic Cluster
• Dynamic Cluster Scaling
• Scaling Down a Dynamic Cluster
• Script Interceptors
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Some FMW Commands
• Summary
• Practice 6-1 Overview: Creating and Modifying a Domain with WLST
• Practice 6-2 Overview: Monitoring a Domain with WLST

RESTFul Management Services

• Objectives
• Agenda
• What Is REST?
• WebLogic Server and REST
• What Can Be Monitored Using WebLogic REST?
• Clients and WebLogic REST
• Enabling REST Management
• Supported Representations
• REST Resource Access Roles
• Agenda
• WebLogic RESTFul Interfaces
• REST Operations Flow
• Example: Returning Server Information Using cURL
• Typical REST Operations
• Common WebLogic REST Results
• WebLogic REST Error Handling
• Understanding WebLogic REST Requests
• WebLogic REST MBean Hierarchy
• WebLogic Legacy REST Resources
• WebLogic REST Response Bodies
• Example: Listing Server Information by Name
• Invoking Operations
• Create Forms
• Creating Resources
• Agenda
• Common Workflows
• Summary
• Quiz
• Practice 7-1 Overview: Creating and Managing Servers Using REST

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

• Objectives
• Agenda
• What Is SSL?
• SSL Terminology
• Symmetric Encryption and Decryption
• Asymmetric Encryption and Decryption
• Digital Certificates
• Digital Certificate: Example
• Certificate Authorities
• SSL Communication
• One-Way SSL Handshake
• Two-Way SSL Handshake
• Quiz
• Agenda
• WebLogic and SSL
• Demo Certificates
• WebLogic SSL Requirements
• WebLogic SSL Connections
• Agenda
• What Is a Keystore?
• keytool Utility
• Working with a Keystore
• Configuring WebLogic Keystores
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Configuring SSL for WebLogic
• SSL and WebLogic Proxy Plug-Ins
• SSL and Hardware Load Balancers
• SSL and Oracle HTTP Server
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 8-1 Overview: Setting Up SSL

Application Work Managers

• Objectives
• Agenda
• WebLogic Server Threads
• Monitoring a Server Thread Pool
• Monitoring Server Threads
• Stuck Thread Handling
• Configuring Stuck Thread Handling
• Application Stuck Thread Handling
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Work Managers
• Work Manager Scope
• Work Manager Architecture
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Request Classes
• Creating a Work Manager
• Creating a Request Class
• Constraints and Stuck Threads
• Creating a Constraint
• Work Manager WLST Example
• Work Managers and Stuck Threads
• Assigning Work Managers to Applications
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 9-1 Overview: Creating and Using Work Managers

Working with the Security Realm

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Security Realm: Review
• Default Security Configuration
• Agenda
• How WebLogic Resources Are Protected
• Examples of WebLogic Resources to Protect
• Users and Groups
• Group Membership
• Roles
• Policies
• Configuring New Users
• Configuring New Groups
• Configuring Group Memberships
• Configuring New Roles
• What Is Role Mapping?
• Configuring Role Mapping
• Configuring Roles Using WLST
• Configuring New Policies
• Configuring Policies Using WLST
• Security Configuration Sources
• Configuring Sources Using WLST and weblogic.Deployer
• Deployment Descriptor Security Example: weblogic.xml
• Deployment Descriptor Security Example: web.xml
• Embedded LDAP Server
• Configuring the Embedded LDAP Server
• Quiz
• Practice 10-1 Overview: Creating Users, Groups, Roles, and Policies
• Agenda
• Auditing
• Sample Auditing Output
• Security Audit Events
• WebLogic Auditing Architecture
• Custom Versus Default Auditing Provider
• Creating the Default Auditing Provider
• Configuring the Default Auditing Provider
• Configuration Auditing
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 10-2 Overview: Configuring WebLogic Auditing

Disaster Recovery and Migration

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Disaster Recovery Concepts
• Site Symmetry
• Recommended Architecture
• General Best Practices
• Hosts File: Example
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Administration Server Review
• Impact of Administration Server Failure
• Backing Up a Domain Configuration
• Recovery of the Administration Server Configuration
• Restarting an Administration Server on a New Computer
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Java Transaction API (JTA) Review
• What Is Service Migration?
• Service Migration Prerequisites
• Service Migration Architecture: Database Leasing
• Service Migration Architecture: Consensus Leasing
• What Is a Migratable Target?
• Service Migration Policy Options
• Configuration Roadmap
• JTA Service Migration: Before Failure
• JTA Service Migration: After Failure
• Configuring JTA Service Migration
• Set Up Automatic JTA Service-Level Migration
• Quiz
• Practice 11-1 Overview: Configuring JTA Service-Level Migration
• Agenda
• Pinned Services
• Pinned Services High Availability (HA) Challenges
• High Availability Options for Pinned Services Clusters
• Whole-Server Migration
• Automatic Server Migration Architecture: Before Failure
• Automatic Server Migration Architecture: Machine Failure
• Configuration: Overview
• Quiz
• Summary

Managing Data Sources

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Review: JDBC
• Data Source: Review
• XA Data Source Review
• Agenda
• Why Manage a Data Source?
• Suspend a Data Source
• Resume a Data Source
• Data Source Interceptors
• Data Source Interceptor
• Practice 12-1 Overview: Controlling a Data Source
• Agenda
• Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC): Overview
• Oracle GridLink for RAC
• Agenda
• Multi Data Sources
• Multi Data Source Architecture
• Comparison of GridLink and Multi Data Sources
• Failover Option
• Load Balancing Option
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Connection Testing
• Agenda
• Creating a Multi Data Source
• Configuring a Multi Data Source
• Multi Data Source WLST Example
• Managing Multi Data Source Members
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 12-2 Overview (Optional): Creating and Using a Multi Data Source

Diagnostic Framework

• Objectives
• Agenda
• WebLogic Diagnostics Framework (WLDF)
• WLDF Architecture
• Diagnostic Archives
• Configuring Server Diagnostic Archives
• Diagnostic Modules
• Dynamic Diagnostic Modules
• Resource Descriptors
• Creating a Diagnostic Module
• WLST: Example
• WLST Commands for WLDF
• Quiz
• Agenda
• What Is a Diagnostic Image?
• Capturing a Server Diagnostic Image
• WLST: Example
• Quiz
• Agenda
• What Is a Harvester?
• Metric Collectors
• Configuring a Metric Collector
• WLST: Example
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Policies and Actions
• Policy Types
• Configuring Policies
• Configuring Actions
• Elastic Actions and Scaling
• Scale Up Action
• Scale Down Action
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 13-1 Overview: Using a Built-in Diagnostic Module

WebLogic and Coherence Integration

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Oracle Coherence: Overview
• Agenda
• Types of Session Persistence
• Coherence*Web
• Coherence*Web and WebLogic Clusters
• Coherence*Web Session Failover
• Configuring Coherence*Web in WebLogic
• Quiz
• Practice 14-1 Overview: Configuring Coherence*Web
• Agenda
• Coherence and WebLogic Server
• WebLogic Managed Coherence Servers Operations
• What Is a Grid Archive (GAR)?
• Coherence Application Deployment on WebLogic
• Coherence Container: Benefits
• Coherence Cluster
• Managed Coherence Server
• Quiz
• Summary
• Practice 14-2 Overview: Configuring Managed Coherence Servers

Application Staging and Deployment Plans

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Review: Java EE Applications
• Review: Deployment
• Agenda
• Server Staging Modes
• Staged Mode Example
• No Stage Mode Example
• External Stage Mode Example
• Configuring the Staging Mode
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Development to Test to Production
• Examples of Deployment Descriptor Values That Can Change
• Agenda
• Java EE Deployment Descriptors
• Annotations
• appmerge and appc
• Managing Precedence
• Quiz
• Agenda
• What Is a Deployment Plan?
• Using Deployment Plans for Different Environments
• Deployment Plan Example
• Staging Deployment Plans
• Quiz
• Agenda
• Creating a Deployment Plan
• Creating a New Deployment Plan
• Using the Administration Console to Generate a Deployment Plan
• Modifying and Saving Data to Create a New Plan
• New Deployment Plan Shows Changed Values
• Using an Existing Deployment Plan to Configure an Application
• Using an Existing Deployment Plan
• WLST createPlan
• weblogic.PlanGenerator
• Using Plan Generator
• Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
• Managing Deployment Plans
• Summary
• Practice 15-1 Overview: Creating and Using a Deployment Plan

WebLogic, Docker, and Kubernetes

• Objectives
• Agenda
• Traditional System Architecture
• History and Multi-Dimensional Evolution of Computing
• Container Use Case: Ready to Run Application Stack
• Container Use Cases: Microservices and One-Time Jobs
• Container Use Cases: Automation and Consolidation
• Virtual Machines Versus Containers
• Agenda
• Docker Architecture and Terminology
• Docker Images
• Docker Hub
• Why Docker Is Popular?
• Agenda
• Kubernetes: What Is It?
• Why Kubernetes?
• Basic Principles
• Applications in Kubernetes
• Deployments and Pods
• Accessing Applications in Kubernetes
• Other Kubernetes Terminology
• K8s Dashboard and Kubectl Output Examples
• Agenda
• Docker WebLogic Domain Image and Configuration Overrides
• Domain Introspection and Config Override Generation
• Supported User Configuration Overrides
• Unsupported User Configuration Overrides
• Configuration Overrides
• WebLogic Operator Lifecycle Management
• WebLogic Lifecycle Management
• Oracle Fusion Middleware Images
• Agenda
• Oracle Linux Container Services
• Host Resource Requirements
• Time Synchronization and Request Forwarding for Kubernetes
• Kubernetes Port Use
• Docker Container Registry
• Oracle Registry Mirror Servers
• Using Private Docker Registry
• Local Container Registry
• Consider Using minikube Tool
• Summary
• A Production Redeployment
• Objectives A-2
• Agenda A-3
• HTTP Sessions and Redeployment A-4
• Agenda A-5
• Redeployment Strategies A-6
• Agenda A-7
• Application Availability A-8
• What Is Production Redeployment? A-9
• Advantages of Production Redeployment A-11
• Production Redeployment Process A-12
• Application Retirement A-13
• Review: Administration Channel A-14
• Administration Mode A-15
• Distributing a Versioned Application A-16
• Deploying in Administration Mode A-17
• Rolling Back to the Previous Version A-18
• Quiz A-19
• Agenda A-21
• Redeployment Process: Overview A-22
• Configuring Application Deployment Versioning A-23
• Deploying a New Version of an Application A-25
• Distributing and Starting a Versioned Application in Administration Mode A-29
• Transitioning a Versioned Application from Administration Mode to Active A-32
• Rolling Back a Versioned Application to a Previous Version A-34
• Quiz A-35
• Agenda A-36
• Requirements and Restrictions A-37
• Summary A-38
• [Optional] Practice Appendix A-1 Overview: Using Production Redeployment A-39
• B WebLogic Optimizations for Exalogic
• What Is Exalogic? B-2
• What Is InfiniBand? B-4
• Exalogic Networks B-5
• Exalogic Machine Topology B-6
• InfiniBand Networking Concepts B-7
• Default Compute Node Network B-8
• Recommended FMW Topology on Exalogic B-9
• Exalogic Shared Storage Concepts B-10
• Recommended FMW Storage on Exalogic B-11
• WebLogic Server Optimizations: Overview B-12
• Creating a Cluster Replication Channel B-13
• Using SDP for Replication B-14
• Using Multiple Ports for Replication B-15
• Other Replication Optimizations B-16
• Oracle Exabus B-17
• Other WebLogic Optimizations B-18
• Enabling Other Optimizations B-19
• What Is Exadata? B-20
• Exadata InfiniBand Connectivity B-21
• Enabling SDP for Exadata Connectivity B-22
• C Oracle Cloud
• Agenda C-2
• What Is Cloud? C-3
• What Is Cloud Computing? C-4
• History – Cloud Evolution C-5
• Components of Cloud Computing C-6
• Characteristics of Cloud C-7
• Cloud Deployment Models C-8
• Cloud Service Models C-9
• Industry Shifting from On-Premises to the Cloud C-13
• Oracle IaaS Overview C-15
• Oracle PaaS Overview C-16
• Oracle SaaS Overview C-17
• Summary C-18
• D Oracle Java Cloud Service Overview
• Objectives D-2

Introducing Java Cloud Service : Your Platform for Running Business Applications in the Cloud D-3

• Java Cloud Service: Three Options D-4
• Java Cloud Service Main Use Cases D-5
• Java Cloud Service Feature: Provisioning D-6
• Java Cloud Service Feature: Patching D-7
• Java Cloud Service Feature: Backup / Restore D-8
• Java Cloud Service Feature: Scaling D-9
• Oracle Coherence Option: Data Caching and Scaling D-10

Oracle Coherence Option: Your Cloud Data Grid Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Cloud Infrastructure D-11

• How You Interact with Java Cloud Service D-12
• Speaking of Dev Environments… Developer Cloud Service D-13
• Java Cloud Service On-Premises! D-14
• Summary D-15