SW530 - Course description: IBM WebSphere Portal Version 5 Installation and Deployment (PW311)

Duration 3 - Days

Overview

In this hands-on lab course learn how to install and deploy IBM WebSphere Portal Version 5.0 (V5). WebSphere Portal administrators learn how to install the WebSphere Portal product, configure the portal, introduce authentication and authorization topics, and many other tasks. Learn the necessary skills for an administrator, architect, or developer to successfully deploy WebSphere Portal.

This course does not cover programming of portlets. Those skills can be obtained by attending the appropriate WebSphere Portal developer courses.

Audience

IBM customers, independent software vendors, system integrators, and IBM technical staff members, including administrators, architects, and developers who implement portal solutions built on the IBM WebSphere Portal platform.

Skills taught

Discuss the issues involved in planning and deploying a Portal solution

Explain the WebSphere Portal Solution architecture and its abstractions

Install and configure WebSphere Portal on a new or existing WebSphere Application Server

Install and activate portlets and portlet applications

Create new page hierarchies

Administer portal resources using XMLAccess and other command line tools

Implement and manage WebSphere Portal clusters

Course outline

· Portal planning

· WebSphere Portal V5 architecture

· WebSphere Portal installation

· Configuration of WebSphere Portal

· Portal deployment and testing

· Introduction to authentication, authorization, and the Vault Service

· Clustering WebSphere Portal

· Command line tools and their appropriate use

· Migration issues

· Global portal settings

· Troubleshooting

· discuss the importance of several properties files

· discuss the mechanics of using configuration scripts

· discuss the use of configuration templates

· Migration

· summarize supported migration paths

· provide an overview of the migration process and discuss how to prepare for this migration

· explain the migration process

· automated steps

· manual steps

· WebSphere Portal troubleshooting

· apply a methodical approach to troubleshooting portal problems, including problems with dependent products

· configure the portal to enable tracing and logging with configuration files and administration portlets

· discuss the performance considerations involved in logging and tracing

· identify the major log files used by the portal server, including their location and uses

· identify the major reference resources that can be used for troubleshooting portal problems

· describe how WebSphere site analyzer is used for reporting portal usage patterns

· Portal clusters

· understand network deployment concepts such as cell, deployment manager, and node

· be able to add nodes to a cell

· understand the concept of a cluster

· know how to create and manage a cluster of application servers

· understand how to implement a multi-node topology for a cluster of portal servers

· know how to deploy portlets to a cluster of portal servers

· know how to update skins and themes in a clustered portal environment

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course offering you must meet the following prerequisites. If you do not meet these prerequisites, you may not be able to fully understand and utilize the materials presented in the course. You should have:

A thorough understanding of WebSphere Portal fundamentals

An understanding of basic Internet concepts

Experience using a Web browser

Administration skills for a Web server (such as IBM HTTP Server or Apache)

Basic operational skills for the Windows 2000 operating system (course lab utilization only)

Basic WebSphere Application Server V5 administration