Techline Sizing for Portal and WCM

Planning Questionnaire
http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS1456

DNS caching ability of the SDK

This can cause problems caching a bad DNS response
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21207534

IBM Extensions to the Eclipse memory analyzer

Nice set of extensions from IBM for detailed heapdump analysis

http://wasdynacache.blogspot.com/2011/08/ibm-extensions-to-eclipse-memory.html

WebSphere Portal on POWER 7

http://blogs.perficient.com/portals/2011/08/29/websphere-portal-on-ibms-new-power-7-processors/

Collection of WAS Performance Tuning Ideas

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0909_blythe/0909_blythe.html
http://wasdynacache.blogspot.com/2011/08/tune-your-websphere-application-server.html
http://wasdynacache.blogspot.com/2011/05/websphere-application-server-top-10.html
http://wasdynacache.blogspot.com/2010/03/pimp-my-websphere-reduce-websphere.html
http://wasdynacache.blogspot.com/2011/04/websphere-application-server-walk-in.html
http://wasdynacache.blogspot.com/2011/05/websphere-application-server.html
http://webspherecommunity.blogspot.com/2011/05/tuning-for-idleness-service.html

Recommended values for Web server plug-in config

 Great Explanation of plugin settings

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21318463

How to RippleStart a cluster with wsadmin

Nice Sample
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21218742

Rotating Verbosegc logs

Everyone needs to do this.

-Xverbosegclog:${SERVER_LOG_ROOT}/verbosegc.log,10,200000

Identifying the Java stack of a thread making an allocation request larger than a certain size

Get when getting OOM with large allocation failures

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21236523

Configure and monitor WebSphere Application Server applications with Optim Performance Manager Extended Insight

End to End database monitoring

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-1107extendedinsight/index.html?ca=drs-

Configuring the WebSphere Application Server hung thread detector to produce javacores

Make sure you have enough disk space and alerts in place

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21448581

Best Practice for using common application files

Good article to share with developers

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27006159

A better Web application configuration for high availability

Architecture

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0802_webcon/0802_webcon.html

High availability (again) versus continuous availability

Details on the 2 topics

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1004_webcon/1004_webcon.html

Cloning an IBM WebSphere Portal V7 installation

Everyone loves cloning

https://greenhouse.lotus.com/blogs/lotustechinfo/entry/latest_everyone_writes_white_paper_cloning_an_ibm_websphere_portal_v7_installation?lang=en_us

Frequently asked questions about WebSphere Application Server security

Details FAQ on security
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1003_botzum/1003_botzum.html

How do I configure IBM HTTP Server to require SSL Client Authentication for only certain requests

Great when sharing IHS with multiple backends
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21503373

How to display SQL statements executed from J2EE applications using minimal tracing

Great trace string to keep handy
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21496047

Understanding the new JVM exit property in the latest DB2 Universal JDBC driver

A new global property to trap exits

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-1107jvmexitdb2univjdbc/index.html?ca=drs-

Correlating TPROF output to a specific thread in the JAVACORE using DBXTrace -a output

Great troubleshooting tool
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21138359

Configuring defaultRowPrefetch for an Oracle JDBC driver

Oracle JDBC settings

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417765

Plug-in-Tools

Short tools for analyzing trace files from the WebServer Plugin in WebSphere Application Server.

https://github.com/covener/plugin-tools

Windows style Task Manager for WebSphere Application Server

A couple of JSP's that will show you details on your WAS threads

http://wasdynacache.blogspot.com/2011/07/windows-style-task-manager-for.html

The WebSphere Application Server Security Configurations - Visual walk-through

Nice eBook

http://www.websphereusergroup.org/josephamrithraj/blog/2011/07/16/the_websphere_application_server_security_configurations_-_visual_walk-through_e-book

WAS V8.0 Redbooks

 WebSphere Application Server V8.0 Technical Overiew

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp4756.html?Open

WebSphere Application Server V8 Concepts, Planning and Design Guide

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/SG247957.html

Realizing an IBM WebSphere Portal farm topology on the Amazon Cloud

Step by Step for Portal Farming on the Cloud with demo

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/Realizing_A_WebSphere_Portal_Farm_Topology_on_the_Amazon_Cloud

What's new in WebSphere Application Server V8

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1106_alcott/1106_alcott.html

WebSphere Application Server V7 advanced security hardening

Part 1
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1004_botzum/1004_botzum.html

Part 2
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1005_botzum/1005_botzum.html



Keys Botzum

Tuning WebSphere Application Server V7 and V8 for performance

Great getting started doc

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0909_blythe/0909_blythe.html

Garbage collection in WebSphere Application Server V8

Part 1
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1106_bailey/1106_bailey.html

Part 2
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1108_sciampacone/1108_sciampacone.html

Web server plug-in policy for WebSphere Application Server

Supported levels of plug-in with WAS

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21160581

Proxy server versus the HTTP plug-in

Choosing the best WebSphere Application Server workload management option

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1010_pape/1010_pape.html

Changing the context root of WebSphere Portal

Nice Step by Step PDF

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?mynp=OCSSHRKX&mync=R&uid=swg21507613&myns=swgws