Limit the number of Heap Dumps

This is a really great setting to prevent your file system from filling up from heapdumps.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21474166

Tuning Guide for DRS and DynaCache

This doc provides some great insight into the Dynamic Cache (dynacache) and Data Replication Server (DRS).  Often overlooked is the tuning steps required to make this efficient and effective.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27006431

WebSphere Portal V7 Tuning Guide

This is a great getting started doc for WebSphere Portal V7 Performance. You should start here at a minimum when building a new portal infrastructure.

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xsp/.ibmmodres/domino/OpenAttachment/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/63118020B7AFE98A85257839006E068C/attach/wp7TuningGuideV1.pdf

Jython Administrative Scripting for WebSphere Application Server

At times, I need to write a jython script to do some basic WebSphere Admin Functions.

Here is a great quick reference from literaly "the guy that wrote the book" on it.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/1004_gibson/1004_gibson.html


This is another good reference site for WAS scripting
http://webspherehacks.com/blog/

2011 Certifications

Here is a list of IBM Certifications I want to complete this year.

IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0
http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/01007007.shtml

IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Portal 7.0
http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/01007205.shtml

IBM Certified Advanced System Administrator - WebSphere Portal 7.0
http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/01007501.shtml

Summary

Decided I finally needed to start blogging. I have so many ideas and come across so many items that it has become to difficult to keep up with all of them. I plan to use this blog to keep an indexed collection of these items for future reference.