WA1257 WebSphere Portal v5 Administration and Deployment Training and Courseware Course Outline
1. Introduction to WebSphere Portal Server
  • Introduction to WebSphere Portal Server
  • Introduction to the Portal technology.
  • Different editions of WebSphere Portal Server.
  • Highlights of WebSphere Portal.
  • Basic software architecture
 
2. WebSphere Application Server Overview
  • Application server, node and cell.
  • Configuration repository
  • Cluster
  • Web server plugin configuration
  • WebSphere topology
  • J2EE modules.
  • Relationship between portal server and WebSphere Application Server.
3. Installation
  • Installation
  • Planning a portal site. 
    • Database
    • Web server
    • LDAP 
  • Different installation methods.
  • Software and hardware pre-requisites
  • Installation steps in Windows, AIX, Solaris and Linux.
4. Portal page hierarchy
  • Portal page hierarchy
  • Hierarchy of pages, labels and URLs.
  • Overview of Themes, skins and screens.
5. Page Management
  • Page management
  • Creating new pages, labels and URLs
  • Page layout management
  • Adding portlets to a page
6. Customizing site look and feel (Rebranding)
  • Themes and Skins
  • The directory layout of a theme or skin
  • Designing a new theme
  • Designing a new skin
  • Installing themes and skins
7. Portlet Administration
  • Structure of a portlet application
  • Deployment descriptor
  • Different types of portlet instances
  • Structure of a WAR file.
  • Installing a portlet application
  • Updating a portlet application
  • Portlet application and portlet settings
8. Web clipping
  • Web clipping
  • Motivation behind the technology
  • Capabilities
  • Shortcomings
  • Using the web clipping portlet
9. Cooperative portlets
  • Cooperative portlets
  • Two ways of cooperation
    • Messaging
    • Click to action
  • How does click to action work
  • Wiring and scattering
10. Portal Document Manager
  • Portal Document Manager
  • Key capabilities
  • What is a document
  • Versioning and workflow
  • Access control
  • Subscriptions
  • Searching
11. Search administration
  • Capabilities of the portal search component
  • Administering the search component
  • Lotus Discovery Server
12. Portal Security
  • Overview of Authentication and authorization
  • Options for authentication
  • Setup LDAP or custom database based security
  • Enabling single sign on.
  • Controlling Portlet and page access.
    • Role
    • Resource
    • Users and groups
    • Inheritance
  • Credential vault
  • Administering credential vault and slots
13. Miscellaneous Administration Tasks
  • Custom unique names
  • Global settings
  • URL mapping
  • Supported markup
  • Frequent users portlet
14. Configuration Management
  • Configuration utilities.
  • Various configuration and properties files.
  • Moving portal server database to DB2 or Oracle.
  • Writing configuration scripts
  • Configuration templates
  • The xmlaccess command
  • Writing XML scripts
  • Basic XML script operations  
    • Exporting configuration
    • Installing portlet application
    • Creating a page
    • Adding portlet to a page
 
15. Backup and Restore
  • Backup/restore of WebSphere Application Server.
  • Backup/restore of database.
  • Backup/restore of portal server.
  • Backup/restore of LDAP.
16. Problem determination
  • Methodology
  • HTTP Server problem determination
  • WebSphere web server plugin problem determination
  • WebSphere Application Server problem determination
  • Portal server problem determination
  • Enabling trace
  • Common problems and solutions
17. Clustering
  • WebSphere clustering concepts
  • Clustering a portal site
  • Deploying a portlet in a clustered environment
  • Deploying a skin and theme in a clustered environment
18. Performance Tuning
  • Application server tuning
  • DB2 tuning
  • Oracle tuning
  • LDAP tuning
  • AIX and Solaris tuning
  • Portal service tuning