DURATION
3 Days
Descriptions
In this hands-on lab course, students explore the operational aspects of an IBM WebSphere Portal version 6.0 installation. The student will practice such tasks as installation, migration of data to a relational database, and utilization of a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory. 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.
Topics
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
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)
System Requirements
This product requires the following to run properly:
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This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.