SW532 - Course description: IBM WebSphere Portal Version 5 Administration (PW321) Duration 3 Days

Overview

In this hands-on lab course, learn how to perform the day-to-day administrative tasks for IBM WebSphere Portal Version 5.0 (V5). Develop the necessary skills for an administrator, architect, or developer to administer WebSphere Portal. Portal administrators learn how to perform portlet deployment, user and group profiling, portal page and document management, and many other administrative tasks.

Examine processes and practices related to the administration of WebSphere Portal Enable Version 5. Focus on the administrative Graphical User Interface (GUI) and tools to manage portlets and access control, portlet customization, search engines, and security features.

This course does not cover programming of portlets nor does it cover the administrative task of installation of the base IBM Portal Server product. Those skills can be obtained by attending the appropriate WebSphere Portal developer or administrative 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 approaches and processes for the planning and design of a portal community
• Explain the WebSphere Portal Solution architecture and its abstractions
• Create portal users and groups and exercise access control options to manage their usage of portal resources
• Install and activate portlets and portlet applications
• Create new portal pages and configure their default content
• Publish content using Document Manager
• Administer search functionality, Web clipping, and cooperative portlets

Course outline

• Portal planning and design
• WebSphere Portal V5 architecture
• Portal deployment and testing
• User and group profiling and authentication
• Page aggregation
• Document management
• Portal search engine administration
• Web clipping administration
• Cooperative portlet administration
• Course summary

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