Description
In this hands-on lab course, students explore the basic and advanced operational aspects of an IBM WebSphere Portal version 6.0. The student will practice such tasks as installing and configuring WebSphere Portal, migration of data to a relational database, and utilization of a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory, creating a vertically clustered WebSphere Portal node, deploying resources (such as portlets, themes and skins) in a clustered environment, and troubleshooting a portal installation. This course focuses on the deployment and management of portal resources, such as portlets, pages, themes, and skins. Students will manage page hierarchies, configure resource permissions on portal resources, and configure virtual portals. In addition to the basic operational tasks, students explore portal topologies and installation scenarios.
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Objectives
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Prerequisites
Audience: The target audience for this course is Independent Software Vendors, Systems Integrators, and IBM technical staff. Architects and developers responsible for implementing solutions using WebSphere Portal version 5 will benefit as well. Prerequisites: The prerequisites for this course include
- Intermediate administration skills using WebSphere Application Server version 6.0, acquired through experience and/or completion of IBM WebSphere Application Server V6 Administration(SW246 or WF381)
- Basic knowledge of portals and WebSphere Portal, acquired by completing IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 Fundamentals (WP010). Visit the IBM link below for information on purchasing this self-paced course.
http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/services/cweeducation.nsf/wdocs/alliance
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Outline
This course covers the following topics:
Introducing WebSphere Portal
- What are portals and why implement a portal?
- WebSphere Portal as a portal
- Basic infrastructure and components
- Personalization vs. customization
Understanding portal terminology
- Portlets
- Themes and skins
- Menus
Installing WebSphere Portal
- Planning for an installation
- Steps for successful installation
- Verifying installation
- Basic command-line commands
- Troubleshooting installations
- Post-installation migration to a DB2 (relational) database
- Post-installation configuration of WebSphere Portal version 6 to access an LDAP user registry
Understanding the WebSphere Portal architecture
- Overall conceptual architecture
- Administration architecture
- Data configuration split
- Key standards
- Port assignments
- Impact of LDAP and security
- Cluster definitions and scalability basics
Navigating WebSphere Portal
- Nodes: pages, labels and URLs
- Site structure
- Administration pages
- Breadcrumb trail
- Palettes
- Context menus
- Drag and drop
Managing portal page hierarchy
- Create new pages in the page hierarchy
- Configure page properties
- Portlet installation and configuration
Configuring access control
- Authentication vs. authorization
- Authorization (access control)
- Role types, resources and roles
- Role inheritance
- Role blocking
- Traversal permissions
- Shared vs. private resources
Implementing attribute based administration
- Visibility rules
- Resource policies
- Personalization and attribute based administration
Implementing composite applications
- Business components
- Application templates
- Package and deploy
- Security considerations
Re-branding a WebSphere Portal installation
- What does it mean to brand the portal?
- Define themes and skins
- Work with theme policies
- Deploy and manage themes
- Theme performance
Implementing virtual portals
- What are virtual portals?
- Use cases for virtual portals vs. multiple true portals
- Planning
- Scoped resources
- Non-scoped resources
- Creation via scripts
- Administering virtual portals
- Realm support
Identifying WebSphere Portal architecture and high availability topologies
- Vertical and Horizontal Portal Clusters
- Replicating Databases
- Replicating LDAP Servers
- Example Topologies
Defining WebSpnhere Portal installation scenarios from standalone servers to clustered environments
- Installing WebSphere Portal with an existing instance of WebSphere Application Server
- Installing coexisting WebSphere Portal products on the same machine
- Advanced installation options
- Verifying Installation
- Troubleshooting Installation Problems
Creating a portal cluster and implement vertical and horizontal scaling
- Network Deployment concepts
- Cluster concepts
- Vertical clusters
- Horizontal clusters
- Steps for creating a portal cluster
- Cluster topology
- Session persistence and caching
- Dynamic caching
Deploying portlets, skins, and themes to a cluster using various administrative tools
- Portlet deployment
- Node synchronization
- Review of themes and skins
- Using administrative scripting tools
- Creating themes and skins
- Installing skins and themes in a cluster
Moving portal content from staging to production environments
- Portal staging process
- Build a release process
- Full or solution release
- Incremental/differential release
- XML configuration interface tool (xmlaccess)
- Building a differential release
- Using the ReleaseBuilder tool
Troubleshooting problems in a clustered environment
- Problem determination overview of components
- Categories of problems
- WebSphere and Portal logs
- How to enable tracing in WebSphere and Portal
- Using the IBM Support Assistant
- Using the Tivoli Performance Viewer
Performing database backups and other production procedures in a clustered environment
- Backup configuration and restore configuration procedures
- Database and LDAP directory backup/restore procedures
- How to switch the Portal database to another server
- How to switch the LDAP user registry to another server
- How to apply Portal and WebSphere updates and fixes in a clustered environment
- Overview of Config split
- Steps to configure Config split for a clustered environment
- How to implement a database configuration split
Enabling support for multiple LDAP servers and multiple realms
- Configuring multiple LDAP directories
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