| 1. Introduction to WebSphere Portal Server |
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- Introduction to WebSphere Portal Server
- Introduction to the Portal technology.
- Different editions of WebSphere Portal Server.
- Highlights of WebSphere Portal.
- Basic software architecture
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| 2. WebSphere Application Server Overview |
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- Application server, node and cell.
- Configuration repository
- Cluster
- Web server plugin configuration
- WebSphere topology
- J2EE modules.
- Relationship between portal server and WebSphere Application Server.
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| 3. Installation |
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- Installation
- Planning a portal site.
- Different installation methods.
- Software and hardware pre-requisites
- Installation steps in Windows, AIX, Solaris and Linux.
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| 4. Portal page hierarchy |
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- Portal page hierarchy
- Hierarchy of pages, labels and URLs.
- Overview of Themes, skins and screens.
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| 5. Page Management |
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- Page management
- Creating new pages, labels and URLs
- Page layout management
- Adding portlets to a page
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| 6. Customizing site look and feel (Rebranding) |
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- Themes and Skins
- The directory layout of a theme or skin
- Designing a new theme
- Designing a new skin
- Installing themes and skins
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| 7. Portlet Administration |
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- 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
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| 8. Web clipping |
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- Web clipping
- Motivation behind the technology
- Capabilities
- Shortcomings
- Using the web clipping portlet
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| 9. Cooperative portlets |
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- Cooperative portlets
- Two ways of cooperation
- Messaging
- Click to action
- How does click to action work
- Wiring and scattering
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| 10. Portal Document Manager |
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- Portal Document Manager
- Key capabilities
- What is a document
- Versioning and workflow
- Access control
- Subscriptions
- Searching
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| 11. Search administration |
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- Capabilities of the portal search component
- Administering the search component
- Lotus Discovery Server
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| 12. Portal Security |
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- 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
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| 13. Miscellaneous Administration Tasks |
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- Custom unique names
- Global settings
- URL mapping
- Supported markup
- Frequent users portlet
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| 14. Configuration Management |
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- 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
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| 15. Backup and Restore |
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- Backup/restore of WebSphere Application Server.
- Backup/restore of database.
- Backup/restore of portal server.
- Backup/restore of LDAP.
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| 16. Problem determination |
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- 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
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| 17. Clustering |
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- WebSphere clustering concepts
- Clustering a portal site
- Deploying a portlet in a clustered environment
- Deploying a skin and theme in a clustered environment
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| 18. Performance Tuning |
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- Application server tuning
- DB2 tuning
- Oracle tuning
- LDAP tuning
- AIX and Solaris tuning
- Portal service tuning
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