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WA1351 IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1 Training and Courseware

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This course teaches WebSphere Portal Server v5.1 installation, configuration, performance tuning as well as administration. Portal administration involves, creating pages, installing portlets, configuring security and other day to day operations.

This WebSphere Portal Administration training course is an excellent way to gain a broad skill base with the product.

Topics
 
  • IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1 architecture
  • IBM WebSphere Portal installation
  • Configuration
  • Deployment
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Security
  • XMLAccess
  • Portal settings
  • Troubleshooting
  • Portal planning and design
  • User and group profiling and authentication
  • Page aggregation
  • Rebranding the portal look and feel (Themes and skins implementation)
  • Utilizing the WebSphere Portal v5 Document Manager (PDM)
  • Portal search engine administration
  • Web clipping administration
Audience
  This is a course for administrators who are responsible for installing and maintaining a WebSphere Portal Server based web site. Prior expereince with WebSphere Application Server administration is definitely helpful but not mandatory.
Duration
  Three days.

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
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