Students who can benefit from this course are:

• Developers and quality engineers who use HADB as a component in products, such as the Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition.
• Technical consultants and support engineers who work with customers using the Application Server and other Sun products that have HADB as a component.
• The administrators who deploy the products at customer sites.

• Have a basic understanding or experience or both with Relational/Distributed Database Management Systems(DBMS), Standard Query Language (SQL) and JDBC.
• Have basic UNIX administration skills (Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) preferred)
• Have a basic understanding on Fault Tolerance, preferred though not required

• Describe important features of HADB
• List the available interfaces to HADB
• Explain how high availability is achieved in HADB
• Describe how high performance is achieved in HADB
• Explain the failure classes masked by HADB
• Configure an HADB instance
• Perform essential management tasks using the management client 'hadbm'
• Perform initial troubleshooting

Module 1 - Introducing HADB Upon completion of this module, the student should be able to:

• Describe the important features of HADB
• List the available interfaces to HADB
• Illustrate HADB Architecture
• Explain how high availability is achieved in HADB by:
  • Use of redundant hardware
  • Data fragmented, replicated, and distributed across hosts
  • Node monitoring and takeover when a failure occurs
  • Automatic self-healing techniques
• Describe how high performance is achieved
• Explain the failure classes masked by HADB

Module 2 - Configuring, Managing, and Troubleshooting HADB (Demo included) Upon completion of this module, the student should be able to:

• Configure the system for a HADB database: Topology, Hardware, and OS
• Configure and start Management Agents
• Perform essential management tasks using the management client hadbm
• Perform basic troubleshooting