Duration
5 days
This instructor-led course is designed for system administrators who want to acquire or update their WebSphere Portal administration skills. Through hands-on application of installing, configuring and managing WebSphere Portal, system administrators will learn basic through advanced concepts of WebSphere Portal administration management In the first half of the course, you practice common day-to-day administration tasks on IBM WebSphere Portal Server 8.0, including portlet installation, security configuration, and WebSphere Portal site management. In the second half of the course, the focus shifts to installation and configuration of WebSphere Portal V8.0.Configuration includes the database used by WebSphere Portal, federated user registries, and clustering for scalability and fault tolerance. This course specifically addresses the following new features of IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 :
- New installation program, IBM Installation Manager
- Overlay analytics reports
- Managed pages (Simplified page creation from the site toolbar)
- Optimized theme that uses a modular framework
- Search optimization update (page metadata is rendered as keywords in the HTML)
- OpenID support (Enables site visitors to authenticate by using a third-party identity provider)
- New configuration wizard
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for this intermediate-level course include:
- Understanding the WebSphere Application Server and JVM environments
- Experience with the WebSphere Application Server and JVM environments
- Database administration
- Security
Skills Taught
You should be able to use the features, functions, and procedures of IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0 to:
- Add portlets to pages using the new drag and drop of the page builder
- Deploy a new portlet
- Manage access
- Set up a blog and a wiki
- Set up tagging and rating
- Create and apply visibility rules
- Work with syndication feeds
- Configure search
- Customize or brand the portal
- Deploy a custom theme
- Transfer the ready-to-use data from the Derby database to DB2 Universal Database
- Configure WebSphere Portal to use an IBM Tivoli Directory Server LDAP server
- Create a Network Deployment cell containing a single node cluster
- Select the best topology for your organization's needs
- Turn on logging and tracing
- Use XML Access to streamline management activities
- Backup and restore data
- Implement release management practices
Day 1
- Welcome
- Exercise 2: Exploring portal page hierarchy and portal commands
- Exercise 3: Deploying a portlet
- Exercise 4: Implementing security and creating a Developer Administration page
- Exercise 5: Creating rules
Day 2
- Exercise 6: Configuring realms and virtual portals
- Exercise 7: Working with the IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet
- Exercise 8: Installing and configuring an iWidget
- Exercise 9: Using external search engines
- Exercise 10: Performing miscellaneous administration tasks
Day 3
- Exercise 11: Enabling and reading the logs
- Exercise 13: Installing WebSphere Portal Server 8.0
- Exercise 14: Configuring the portal database
- Exercise 15: Enabling portal security by using an LDAP repository
Day 4
- Exercise 16: Creating a portal cell
- Exercise 17: Federating and clustering the primary node
- Exercise 18: Troubleshooting a portal
- Exercise 19: Using XML Access
Day 5
- Exercise 22: Deploying resources from staging to production
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.