WA1351 IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1 Administration Training and Courseware Course Outline

1. Introduction to WebSphere Portal Server
  • What is a Portal
  • An Example of WebSphere Portal Sites
  • Benefits of Portal Sites
  • General Portal Architecture
  • The Major Components of Horizontal Portals
  • WebSphere Portal Goals
  • WebSphere Portal Components
  • WebSphere Portal Accessibility
  • WebSphere Portal Packaging
  • WebSphere Portal Express
  • WebSphere Portal Enable
  • A Typical Network Architecture for WebSphere Portal
  • WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation 5.1.1
  • WebSphere Portal Server
  • WebSphere Portal Server Architecture
  • Portal Container
  • Portal Engine Architecture
  • Page Aggregation Modules
  • Portlet
  • WebSphere Portal Built-in Portlets
  • Portlet Application
  • Portlet Mode and State
  • WebSphere Portlet Content Publishing (WPCP)
  • Portal Document Manager (PDM)
  • Search Engine
  • WebSphere Portal Information
 
2. Installation Overview
  • Installation Planning
  • Architecture Decisions
  • Sample Plan: Development
  • Sample Plan: Q&A
  • Sample Plan: Staging
  • Sample Plan: Production
  • WebSphere Application Server Options
  • System Prerequisites
  • Starting the Installation Process
  • Install Time Options
  • Install Time Options - Full
  • Install Time Options - Custom
  • Install Time Options - Test Environment
  • Verification
  • Starting and Stopping Portal Server
3. Portal Page Hierarchy
  • Elements of a Portal Site
  • Screen
  • The Home Screen
  • Screen
  • Page and Label
  • Page/Label Hierarchy
  • URL
  • Theme
  • Skin
  • Putting it all together
4. Page Management
  • Opening Administration Console
  • Create a Page or Label
  • Page Properties
  • Private Page
  • Page Layout
  • Adding Portlets to a Page
  • Layout Locking
  • Creating URL
  • URL Link
5. Customizing the Look and Feel
  • Customization Basics
  • Customization Technique
  • Theme Basics
  • Creating a Theme
  • How Does a Theme Work
  • Theme at Work
  • Customizing the New Theme
  • Creating a Skin
  • How Does a Skin Work
  • Customizing a Skin
6. Portlet Administration
  • Terminologies
  • Portlet Instance Types
  • Instance Type Summary
  • Portlet Applications and Concrete Portlet Applications
  • Portlet Modes
  • Example of Using Edit Mode
  • Portlet Mode - Advanced
  • Portlet Window States
  • Portlets vs. Servlets
  • Portlet Deployment Descriptors
  • portlet.xml
  • Relationship between web.xml and portlet.xml
  • Relationship between Portlet and Concrete Portlet
  • Example of portlet.xml
  • Installing a Portlet Web Module
  • How is a Portlet Web Module Installed?
  • Managing Applications
  • Managing Portlets
7. Web Clipping
  • What is Web Clipping
  • Creating a New Clip
  • Advanced Options
  • HTML Clipping
8. Cooperative Portlets
  • Introduction
  • Basic Concepts
  • Example of Click-to-Action
  • Runtime Architecture of Click-to-Action
  • Portlet Wrapper Class
  • Enable C2A in Portlet Applications
  • Development Steps
  • C2A JSP Tags
  • Example of C2A Source JSP
  • Example of Target Action Descriptor WSDL
  • Example of C2A web.xml
  • Example of C2A portlet.xml
  • Example of a Target Portlet
  • Scattering
  • Wiring
9. Search Engine
  • Key Features
  • Taxonomy and Categorization
  • Summarization and Stemmer Support
  • Search Engine Organization
  • Creating Document Collection
  • Managing a Collection
  • Collection Status
  • Adding Sites to a Collection
  • Configuring Crawl Schedule
  • Document Approval
  • Search Portlet
  • Using the Search Portlet
  • Lotus Discovery Server Portlets
10. Security
  • Key Concepts
  • Authentication
  • Portal User Registry
  • Enabling Security with Member Manager Database
  • WebSphere Security Changes
  • Enabling Security with LDAP
  • Security with LDAP
  • Single Sign On (SSO)
  • The Member Manager
  • Authorization
  • How Does Authorization Work?
  • Roles
  • Role Membership
  • More on Authorization
  • Resources
  • Common Access Rights
  • Managing Users and Groups
  • Setting Resource Permission
  • Resource Permissions GUI
  • Enabling SSL
  • Credential Vault
  • Credential
  • Components of Credential Vault
  • Structure of the Credential Vault
  • Slot Scope
  • Credential Access Level
  • Single Sign-on Scenario
  • Vault Administration