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WA1257 WebSphere Portal v5 Administration and Deployment Training and Courseware

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This course teaches WebSphere Portal Server v5 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 5.0.2 architecture
  • IBM WebSphere Portal installation
  • Configuration
  • Deployment
  • Testing
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Security
  • Clustering (ND)
  • Backup/Restore
  • 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)
  • Web services
  • 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
  Five days.

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
We regularly offer classes in these and other cities. Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Calgary, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, Montreal, New York City, Orlando, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington DC.
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