Objectives

• Topic A: WebSphere Portal software stack and architecture View of the stack
• Topic B: WebSphere Portal and the WebSphere Application Server

Lesson 2. Page management

Objectives

• Topic A: Navigating and managing WebSphere Portal

• Administrative interface
• Pages and page hierarchy

• Topic B: Creating pages and page management
• Designing the page hierarchy
• WebSphere Portal nodes
• Page layout
• Portlets and pages
• Page Builder

Lab 2: Exploring portal page hierarchy and portal commands

Objectives

• Task 1: Starting and stopping WebSphere Portal
• Checking the server status of WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Portal Application Server

• Task 2: Signing up as a new user to the portal
• Task 3: Exploring the portal Administration area as an administrator
• Task 4: Creating a new portal page and placing a portal on it

• Customizing the Reminder portlet
• Stopping the WebSphere_Portal instance

• Task 5: Backing up the WebSphere Portal configuration

Lesson 3. Deploying portlets

Objectives

• Topic A: Portlet deployment
• Stand-alone environment
• Clustered environment

• Topic B: Page hierarchy and portlets
• Exporting and importing the page hierarchy

Lab 3: Deploying a portlet

Objectives

• Task 1: Verifying that WebSphere Portal is started and logging in
• Verifying that WebSphere Portal is started
• Logging in to WebSphere Portal

• Task 2: Deploying a portlet

Lesson 4. WebSphere Portal security management

Objectives

• Topic A: Overview of role-based security
• Privileges
• Traversal

• Topic B: Defining the portal resource security mechanism
• Defining the portal resource security mechanism
• Exploring the resources and roles

• Topic C: Blocking propagation and role inheritance
• Blocking propagation
• Blocking inheritance

• Topic D: Access control settings
• Initial access control settings
• Initial portlet access control settings
• Initial page access control settings

• Topic E: Granting privileges
• Granting privileges to a portlet
• Granting different privileges on a single portlet

• Topic F: Creating anonymous pages
• Analyzing role interactions on pages and Portlets

• Topic G: Traversal
• The need for traversal
• Traversal scenario
• Configuring traversal

• Topic H: Securing your portal page hierarchy
• Setting resource permissions

Lab 4: Implementing security and creating a Developer Administration page

Objectives

• Task 1: Verifying that WebSphere Portal is started and logging in
  Verifying that WebSphere Portal is started
• Logging in to WebSphere Portal
• Task 2: Importing the Human Resources page hierarchy
• Task 3: Viewing the initial security permissions
• Task 4: Setting and verifying page permissions
• Task 5: Allowing customization
• Task 6: Setting and verifying portlet permissions
• Task 7: Configuring traversal permissions
• Task 8: Creating an Administration page for developers

Lesson 5. Wikis and blogs

Objectives

• Topic A: Page Builder theme and a wiki or blog
• Wikis
• Blogs

• Topic B: Adding a wiki or blog to a page
• Adding a wiki to a page
• Adding a blog to a page

• Topic C: Deleting wiki or blog content
• The difference between deleting and purging
• Deleting wiki or blog content

• Topic D: Purging wiki or blog content
• Purging a wiki or blog

• Topic E: Assigning access to the wiki or blog
• Wiki and blog roles
• Configuring access control to wikis or blogs

Lab 5: Setting up a blog and a wiki

Objectives

• Task 1: Adding Web Content Management authoring to a base installation
• Task 2: Adding a blog
• Task 3: Adding a wiki
• Task 4: Assigning users rights

Lesson 6 .Tagging and rating

Objectives

• Topic A: Tag clouds
• Topic B: Public, private, personal, and community tags
• Topic C: Statistics
• Tagging and rating statics
• Sharing tagging and rating data with portlets

Lab 6: Enabling and configuring tagging and rating

Objectives

• Task 1: Enabling or disabling tagging and rating for portal users
• Task 2: Enabling and adding words to the blacklist
• Task 3: Working with whitelist filters

Lesson 7. Attribute-based administration

Objectives

• Topic A: Personalization rules
• Rules
• Exploring campaigns

• Topic B: Administering the portal using attribute-based techniques
• Access control and visibility rules
• Policies
• Error condition behavior

• Topic C: Defining attribute-based administration
• Examining visibility rules
• Exploring interactions between security and rules
• Handling errors

• Topic D: Creating and managing visibility rules
• Applying visibility rules to pages and portlets

Lab 7: Creating rules

Objectives

• Task 1: Verifying that WebSphere Portal is started and logging in
• Verifying that WebSphere Portal is started
• Logging in to WebSphere Portal

• Task 2: Validating the ability to apply rules to a portlet
• Task 3: Working with visibility rules
• Creating a visibility rule
• Applying the new rule to a portlet
• Creating and applying a visibility rule to a page

Lesson 8. Virtual portals and realms

Objectives

• Topic A: Virtual portals and multiple realms
• Defining virtual portals
• Defining realms
• Virtual portals with multiple realms

• Topic B: VMM realm configuration files
• Topic C: Creating a realm
• Topic D: Creating a virtual portal
• Using the Virtual Portal Manager portlet
• Using the ConfigEngine create-virtual-portal task

• Topic E: Scoped and non-scoped resources
• Defining scoped resources
• Defining non-scoped resources

• Topic F: Virtual portal provisioning script

Lab 8: Configuring realms and virtual portals

Objectives

• Task 1: Creating a new user realm
• Task 2: Creating a virtual portal

Lesson 9. IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet

Objectives

• Topic A: IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet
• Proxy for the portlet
• Configuration options for administrators
• Management implications

• Topic B: Feeds
• SSL feeds
• Client-side aggregation
• Cookies and feeds
• Portlet proxies

Lab 9: Working with the IBM Syndicated Feed Portlet

Objectives

• Task 1: Adding and configuring a syndicated portlet

Lesson 10. Mashup integration

Objectives

• Topic A: Defining mashups and iWidgets
• Mashups
• iWidgets
• WebSphere Portal and iWidgets
• Adding an iWidget to a page

• Topic B: Integrating mashups
• Enabling the Mashups tab
• Adding a new widget

Lab 10: Installing and configuring an iWidget

Objectives

• Considerations
• Task 1: Enabling mashup integration
• Task 2: Adding an iWidget
• Task 3: Getting

• started with customizing iWidget attributes

Lesson 11. WebSphere Portal search

Objectives

• Topic A: Comparing search options
• Search collections

• Topic B: Working with WebSphere Portal search
• Search scope
• Search links
• External Search Results portlet

Lab 11: Using external search engines

Objectives

• Task 1: Configuring external search scopes
• Task 2: Configuring the External Search Results portlet
• Updating the Ajax proxy
• Configuring the External Search Result portlet

Lesson 12. Other administrative portlets

Objectives

• Topic A: Portal clients
• Existing client support
• Adding support for new clients

• Topic B: Web clippings
• Defining web clippings
• Using the Web Clipping Editor to import content

• Topic C: URL mapping
• Defining URL mappings
• Creating a URL mapping

• Topic D: Custom names
• Defining custom names
• Creating custom names

Lab 12: Performing miscellaneous administration tasks

Objectives

• Task 1: Using web clippings to import content
• Creating a new page

• Task 2: Creating a URL mapping
• Task 3: Creating custom names

Lesson 13. WebSphere Portal usage analysis

Objectives

• Topic A: Monitoring portal usage
• Data points available on the server side
• Enabling server-side logging
• Reading the log files

• Topic B: Active Site Analytics for user behavior analysis
• Samples and custom aggregator
• Adding an aggregator to a page
• Aggregators and themes

Lab 13: Enabling and reading the logs

Objectives

• Task 1: Enabling site analysis logging
• Task 2: Reviewing the log

Lesson 14. Theme architecture

Objectives

• Topic A: Client-side aggregation versus server-side aggregation
• Page aggregation concepts
• Understanding aggregation options

• Topic B: Portal customization and branding
• Defining and creating a brand
• Defining themes and skins
• Implementing a theme
• Adding themes
• Applying a theme

Lesson 15. Installing WebSphere Portal

Objectives

• Topic A: Options, methods, and sources for installing WebSphere Portal
• The Base option
• The Full option
• Installation methods
• Profiles

• Topic B: Configuring WebSphere Portal
• Developer mode
• Empty portal

Lab 15: Installing WebSphere Portal Server

Objective

Lesson 16. Configuring WebSphere Portal

Objectives

• Topic A: Working with the ConfigEngine and the Configuration Wizard
• ConfigEngine overview
• ConfigEngine Wizard overview
• How the ConfigEngine works

• Topic B: Configuring the database
• Configuration tasks for the database
• Properties for the database configuration

• Topic C: Using profiles
• Profile types
• Considerations for multiple profiles
• Creating profiles

Lab 16: Configuring the portal database

Objectives

• Task 1: Configuring the database
• Creating DB2 databases
• Migrating databases to DB2

• Task 2: Verifying the data transfer

Lesson 17. Security for WebSphere Portal

Objectives

• Topic A: LDAP-based authentication
• Overview of LDAP-based authentication

• Topic B: Portal security
• Authentication
• VMM and LDAP integration
• Stand-alone LDAPs, federated repositories, and multiple LDAPs
• Security for immediate use
• Custom LDAP integration
• Property extension database (formerly the Look-aside database)
• External security managers

Lab 17: Enabling portal security using an LDAP repository

Objectives

• Task 1: Checking existing users and groups
• Task 2: Editing security property settings
• Modifying security properties
• Restarting WebSphere_Portal
• Changing the WebSphere Portal administrator and administration group
• Restarting WebSphere_Portal

• Task 3: Testing the new security settings

Lesson 18. Creating a cell

Objectives

• Topic A: Network deployment overview
• Concepts
• Architecture
• Topic B: Creating a cell
• Installing network deployment
• Creating and working with the deployment manager profile

Lab 18: Creating a portal cell

Objectives

• Task 1: Stopping WebSphere Portal Server, if needed
• Task 2: Installing the Deployment Manager
• Task 3: Starting and configuring the Deployment Manager
• Starting the Deployment Manager
• Configuring the Deployment Manager
• Increasing the HTTP connection timeout
• Setting the requestTimeout for the Java management extensions connector
• Changing the maximum Java heap size
• Creating a WebSphere Portal administrator group
• Changing the SOAP timeout

Lesson 19. Federating a portal node into a cell

Objectives

• Topic A: Federating and clustering a WebSphere Portal node
• Planning
• Administrative tools
• Federating the node
• Topic B: Managing a WebSphere Portal cluster
• Starting and stopping the node agent

Lab 19: Federating and clustering the primary node

Objectives

• Task 1: Creating the WebSphere Portal profile template
• Task 2: Preparing the deployment manager
• Task 3: Federating and clustering the primary node
• Federating the node
• Creating a static cluster
• Creating the cluster definition and adding WebSphere_Portal to the cluster
• Verifying that the cluster was created

Lesson 20. Troubleshooting

Objectives

• Topic A: Overview of troubleshooting
• Logs
• Logging and tracking
• IBM Support Assistant-lite

• Topic B: Tools for troubleshooting
• Tracing

Lab 20: Troubleshooting a portal

Objectives

• Task 1: Restarting all servers and checking runtime log files
• Stopping the portal, node agent, and deployment manager on all nodes
• Deleting the log files for the servers
• Starting the deployment manager and node agent and examining the log files
• Starting the portal nodes
• Starting the portal server from the administrative console
• Using the administrative console to examine the SystemOut and SystemError
• logs for each server

• Task 2: Enabling tracing for portal components
• Changing the detail level for tracing on the first cluster member
• Restarting WebSphere Portal
• Examining the startup trace information in the tracelog file
• Logging in to the portal and examining the trace log

• Task 3: Working with the IBM Support Assistant
• Task 4: Using the Tivoli Performance Viewer
• Starting the performance viewer
• Monitoring the portal servlet
• Examining the Tivoli Performance Viewer performance advisor
• Exiting the Tivoli Performance Viewer and disabling monitoring on the servers
• Cleaning up your desktop

Lesson 21. XML Access

Objectives

• Topic A: The XML configuration interface for WebSphere Portal
• Overview of the XML configuration interface
• Working with the XML configuration interface tool

• Topic B: Examples of when to use XML Access
• Exporting configurations

Lab 21: Using XML Access

Objectives

• Task 1: Generating a full export of the WebSphere Portal 70 configuration
• Task 2: Verifying that the export process ran successfully

Lesson 22. Production topologies

Objectives

• Topic A: Production topologies
• Distributed or stand-alone
• Vertical cluster
• Horizontal cluster
• Portal farms, cloud computing, and network deployment infrastructures

• Topic B: Building a development- and a production-ready deployment
• Planning
• Considerations

• Topic C: Reducing single points of failure
• Portal infrastructure
• Approaches for reducing single points of failure

• Topic D: Enabling redundancy for configuration data
• Defining configuration data

• Topic E: Evaluating data requirements
• Topic F: Database split options
• Defining database split options

• Topic G: Configuring databases for failover
• Database failover support options
• Defining scalability

• Topic H: Capacity planning considerations
• Topic I: Web Services for Remote Portlets
• Defining WSRP
• Benefits of WSRP

Lesson 23. Managing portlets in WebSphere Portal clusters

Objectives

• Topic A: Deploying portlets in a cluster
• Clustered portlet deployment task
• Clustered portlet deployment process

• Topic B: Installing or updating a portlet in a cluster
• Topic C: Synchronizing nodes
• Topic D: Using XML Access in a cluster

Lesson 24. Staging to production

Objectives

• Topic A: Moving from a staging to a production environment
• Staging versus production
• Determining what is moved into production

• Topic B: Reviewing the release life cycle
• Overview of the release life cycle

• Topic C: Staging system and production system
• Defining the staging environment
• Defining the production environment

• Topic D: Implementing releases
• Defining releases
• Managing releases

• Topic E: Using Release Builder
• Defining Release Builder
• Executing Release Builder
• Exploring release scenarios

• Topic F: Moving artifacts manually
• Identifying artifacts not supported by Release Builder
• Moving artifacts manually from staging to production

Lab 24: Deploying resources from staging to production

Objectives

• Task 1: Exporting the release from production
• Exporting the current configuration using XML Access
• Verifying that the export process ran successfully

• Task 2: Moving staging resources to production
• Task 3: Running Release Builder to create a differential release
• Task 4: Importing a differential release (production server)
• Importing the differential release
• Verifying that the XML Access command ran successfully
• Activating the portlet

Lesson 25. Production procedures

Objectives

• Topic A: Backup procedures for the production environment
• Topic B: Applying updates in the production environment
• Applying WebSphere Application Server updates
• Applying WebSphere Portal updates