Part 1 : IBM Web Sphere Portal 6.1 System Administration 1
Lesson 1: Installing a Basic Portal
Introduction to Portal Administration
Planning a Portal Installation
Portal Terminology
Reasons for Implementing a Portal
Common Administrative Tasks
Reasons for Implementing a Portal
Common Administrative Tasks
Troubleshooting Installation Problems
Logs and other Tools Used to Resolve Installation Issues
Lesson 2: Exploring the Portal and its architecture
Exploring Websphere and Portal Architecture
Examining the Out-of-the- Box Websphere Portal Implementation
Default page Hierarchy
Customizing Portal Pages
Command Line Option
Lesson 3: Configuring a Portal for Production and Future Scalability
Examining the Portal Configuration Database
Portal Configuration
Default Database Configuration
Enterprise Database Alternative
Benefits of Splitting the Configuration Database
Migrating and splitting the Configuration Database
Command Line Option for Migrating Data to Enterprise Database
The Configuration Wizards
Lesson 4: Enabling LDAP- Based Authentication
Examining Websphere and Portal Security
Authentication Method
User Profiles
User Repositories
Security Enhancement
Using an LDAP as the User Repository
Default Portal Security and LDAP
LDAP Security Configuration Files
Securing the Portal with IBM Tivoli Directory Server
Lesson 5: Navigating and managing the Portal
Portal Page Management Techniques
Creating and Managing Portal Pages
Creating a Portal page Hierarchy
Managing Page Properties
Managing Page Layout
Managing Portlets on Pages
Exporting and Importing Page Hierarchies
Deploying Portlets
The Portlet Deployment Unit
Deploying a Portlet Application
Managing Deployed Portlets
Lesson 6: Managing Portal Security
Portal Security
The Portal Resources Security Mechanism
Privileges
Propagation
Inheritance
Traversal
Granting Appropriate Administrative Access to Developers
Implementing Portal Security
Implementing Security on Portal Pages
Implementing Security on Portlets
Lesson 7: Administering Portal Using Attribute-Based Techniques
Exploring Attribute-Based Administration
Attribute-Based Administration
Creating a Show/Hide Rule
Portal Attributes
Managing Rules
Creating and Applying Theme Policies
Exporting Policies
Editing a Theme Policy
Updating a Theme Policy
Lesson 8: Building and Managing Composite Application
8A: Composite Application
What are Composite Application?
Designing a Composite Application?
Business Components
Benefits of deploying composite Application
Templates and Application
The Point of Variability Concepts
8B: Building and Deploying a Composite Application
Building a Composite Application Template
Deploying an Application Based on a Template
Propagating a template to Another Server
Lesson 9: Federating a Portal Node into a Cell
Exploring Websphere Cells
Cell Terminology
Managing the Underlying Websphere Instances
Clustering a Portal Node
Creating a Cell
Creating a Deployment Manager Profile
Federating a Stand-Alone Portal Node into a Cell
Lesson 10: Branding the Portal
Branding a Portal
Brands
Themes
Skins
Designing a Theme
Designing Considerations
Customizing a Theme
Portal Style Sheets
Portal Property Files
Deploying Custom Themes
Deploying to a Stand-Alone Portal Server
Deploying to a Cluster
Part 2: IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 System Administration 2
Lesson 1: Configuration Web Content Management
What is Web Content management?
The Architectural Role in Portal 6.1
Configuration Web Content Management
Overview of Configuring Web Content Management
Navigating Web Content Management
Creating Libraries
Creating Site Frameworks
Creating Workflows
Creating Authoring Templates
Creating Presentation Templates
Creating Template Maps
Creating Content
Displaying Content on a Portal Page
Lesson 2: Exploring Portal Topologies
Introduction to Portal Topologies and Benefits
The Portal Environment
Benefits of Using Websphere Portal
Components of a Scalable Portal
High-Availability Environment
Stand-Alone Portal Installations
Federated Portal Installations
Components of a clustered Portal
Scalable Topologies
Eliminating Single Points of Failure
Configuring a Portal for High Availability
The Implications of the Portal Configuration Split
Creating a Portal Cluster
The Portal Cluster Creation Process
Lesson 3: Deploying Portals to a Cluster
Deploying Portals to a Cluster
The Mechanics of Clustered Portlet Deployment
Installing Portlets to a Cluster
Updating Portlets in a cluster
Lesson 4: Moving from Staging to Production
Defining Portal Environment
The Desktop Development Environment
The Test Environment
The Staging Environment
Transitioning from One Environment to the next
The Transition Process
The XML Export Capabilities of Portal
Using the Release Builder Tool
Lesson 5: Creating Virtual Portals and Realms
Realms and Multiple LDAPs
What Are Realms?
Realm Requirements
Websphere Manager Member Configuration Files
Creating a Realm
Virtual Portals
What is a Virtual Portal?
Comparing True and Virtual Portals
Use cases for Virtual Portals
Planning Consideration for Virtual Portal
Scoped and non-Scoped Resources
Creating a Virtual Portal
Customizing the Provisioning scripts for Virtual Portals
Lesson 6: Troubleshooting a Clustered Portal
Troubleshooting Methodologies for clustered Portals
Problem Determination Methodology
Log Files
Isolating Problem Components
Tracing Portal Problems
The IBM Support Assistant
Monitoring for Performance
Lesson 7: Examining Production Procedures
Production Procedure
Backing up Portal Resources
Using XMLAccess as a Production Tool
Backing up and Mirroring Configuration Database
Backing up and Mirroring LDAPs
Applying WebSphere and Portal Update in a Production Environment
Applying WebSphere and Portal Update in a Production Environment
Implementing a Configuration Split in a Clustered Environment.
