UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION

Course Overview Duration: 30 minutes

• • Describe the course objectives.
• • Outline the course agenda.
• • Understand how to use the training materials. 

Lesson 1. Performance Overview Duration : 1 hour

• • Define the basic performance terminologies.
• • Describe the different factors that affect the performance, and concepts to resolve the performance problems. 

Exercise 1. Performance Overview Duration : 1 hour

• • Lab environment setup
• • Stop and Start Sterling B2B Integrator.
• • Match the performance term.

Lesson 2. Architecture and Performance Duration : 2 hours  30 minutes

• • 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

• • 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

• • 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

• • 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

• • Describe the Sterling B2B Integrator Dashboard.
• • Configure the Dashboard.

Lesson 3. Business Process Design Issues Duration : 1 hour

• • 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

• • Persistence level business process.
• • Document Storage Settings.
• • Monitor invoke mode configuration
• • Using message tags.
• • Sleep Service. 

Lesson 4. Mailbox Management Duration : 30 minutes

• • 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

• • Locate mailboxes in Sterling B2B Integrator.

UNIT 3: UTILITIES 

Lesson 1. Performance Overview Duration : 30 minutes

• • 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 1. Performance Overview Duration: 30 minutes

• • Create JDBC report.
• • Generate Statistics Report

Lesson 2. Performance Tuning Utility Duration : 1 hour 30 minutes

• • 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 business scenarios.

Exercise 2. Performance Tuning Utility Duration : 30 minutes

• • View Initial performance settings.
• • Working with performance tuning utility. 

Lesson 3. Manual Performance Tuning Duration : 1 hour

• • 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

• • Overriding Property File Settings.
• • Queue Watcher.
• • Disable Passphrase.

Lesson 4. Performance Statistics Report Duration : 1 hour

• • 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

• • Create Performance Statistics Report
• • Deleting Performance Statistics Reports

UNIT 4: SYSTEM HEALTH  

Lesson 1. Troubleshooter Duration : 30 minutes

• • 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

• • Pool connection. 

Lesson 2. Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools Duration : 1 hour 30 minutes

• • 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

• • 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

• • 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

• • 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

• • 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

• • Create a Report Schedule.

Lesson 5. Scripts Duration : 30 minutes

• • Explain the importance of the scripts in Sterling B2B Integrator.

Exercise 5. Scripts Duration : 30 minutes

• • Create Database Details.

Course Wrap Up Duration : 30 minutes

• • 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.