DURATION
2 Days
Descriptions
In this hands-on course, students explore the advanced operational aspects of an IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0. Students practice the necessary skills for an administrator or architect to perform such tasks as installing and configuring WebSphere Portal, migrating to a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory and database, creating a vertically clustered WebSphere Portal node, deploying resources (such as portlets, themes and skins) in a clustered environment, and troubleshooting a portal installation. In addition to the basic operational tasks, students explore portal topologies and installation scenarios.
Topics
This course covers the following topics:
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
Audience
The target audience for this course is IBM customers, Independent Software Vendors, Systems Integrators, and IBM technical staff. Architects and developers responsible for implementing solutions using WebSphere Portal version 6 will benefit as well.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for this course include
Administration skills using WebSphere Administration Server Version 6.0, acquired through experience and/or completion of IBM WebSphere Application Server V6 Administration(SW246)
Knowledge of portals and WebSphere Portal, acquired by completing IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 Fundamentals (WP010)
Basic knowledge of portal security concepts, acquired by completing IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0: Administration 1 (WP710)
System Requirements
This product requires the following to run properly:
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