Experienced Administrator ??

[poolboy]

Hello !
I am a Certified WebSphere Specialist with development/technical experience but little or no Unix experience. I need advice on what would be a day to day task of a WebSphere administrator....including moving to production & stuff..
would I need to be proefficient with shell scripts etc ?
Thanks
poolboy

 

[spaixpert]

So how did you became a Websphere specialist in the first place?

 

[poolboy]

prisco,
I thought you would have taken the time to do a research on that, but nevermind...
a certified specialist is competent in the design, development and deployment of servlets, JSPs, EJBs applications using the WebSphere application server,,it's got nothing to do with Unix..only your J2EE skills
...U don't need to write shell scripts to do all these, do you ?

there two separate roles in being
a WebSphere developer/deployer(who needs J2EE)
and a:
WebSphere Administrator(who needs to be familiar with Unix etc) they are systems expert

 

[aixmurderer]

Tongue in cheek message....

Firstly, you will have to take a salary dip of 20% plus.
Secondly, and increase in working hours to 25 hours per day.
Thirdly, do all the menial non-systems related tasks that the manager can think of to dump on you.

OK, enough fun, here is the serious bit:

Scripting would be something you should seriously know about, especially if you want to do active/passive monitoring or automation. But the good thing is that you could get away with very basic knowledge of shell scripts and build yourself up over time, that's the nature of the beast.

More important is that you should know Unix and it's wealth of commands, and where to use what. Applying that to scripts for automation becomes a natural extension.

Hope that answers your question...

Chris
IBM Certified Specialist - MQSeries

 

[poolboy]

thanks aixmurderer,
very kind of you....
but one one question for U..how do U think MQSeries would relate to being a certified Java Programmer and a WebSphere Specialist ???

is MQSI sames as MQSeries ?? do U have to know both or not ?

please advise me as it is one area of great interest to me

Regards
poolboy