Orbix 6 CORBA: Administration and Deployment

Target Population: People who are experienced in administering application systems in a distributed environment.
Pre-requisites: Interest in network application system management is essential. Exposure to the management of the network systems for Internet applications (Web servers, ftp servers, client-server databases, CORBA) is highly advantageous. Basic understanding of distributed software systems (DCE, Application Servers, CORBA) is desirable.
Duration/Format: 3 days. This is a course involving lectures, and hands-on exercises, delivered by an experienced IONA Orbix instructor.

Course Objectives:

On the completion of the course, the participants will:

Have a basic knowledge of the implementation of CORBA objects with the Portable Object Adapter (POA).
Describe the features of Orbix and how they can be used.
Install Orbix.
Configure an Orbix environment.
Manage an Orbix environment.
Deploy Orbix client and server applications.
Configure and manage load balancing and redundancy.
Manage logging and troubleshooting.

Detailed Course Content

Introduction to CORBA

Overview of client-server computing and its relationship with CORBA
Explanation of the advantages of the standards process for CORBA
Basic architectural components of CORBA
Fundamentals of the CORBA object model

Introduction to Orbix

Overview of the Orbix architecture
Benefits of developing and deploying the applications with Orbix
Orbix run-time and development environment installation
Orbix administration
Licensing and basic configuration

Introduction to Orbix Environment

Overview of the components and services in Orbix

Manage the Naming Service

Detailed use of the CORBA Naming Service

Activate CORBA Servers Automatically

Detailed use of POAs
Process control and activation on-demand

Configure Orbix for High Availability

Overview of high availability in Orbix: clustering, fault tolerance, and load balancing
Clustering Orbix services and server applications
Load balancing configuration

Manage ORB Configuration