The Installation and Administration of IBM WebSphere Portal on Linux training course is designed for system administrators who want to acquire or update their WebSphere Portal administration skills. Through hands-on application of installing, configuring and managing WebSphere Portal, system administrators will learn basic to advanced concepts of WebSphere Portal administration management. In the first half of the course, you practice common day-to-day administration tasks on IBM WebSphere Portal Server, including portlet installation, security configuration, and WebSphere Portal site management. In the second half of the course, the focus shifts to installation and configuration of WebSphere Portal. Configuration includes the database used by WebSphere Portal, federated user registries, and clustering for scalability and fault tolerance.
By attending Installation and Administration of IBM WebSphere Portal on Linux workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Add portlets to pages using the new drag and drop of the page builder
- Deploy a new portlet
- Manage access
- Set up a blog and a wiki
- Set up tagging and rating
- Create and apply visibility rules
- Work with syndication feeds
- Configure search
- Customize or brand the portal
- Deploy a custom theme
- Transfer the ready-to-use data from the Derby database to DB2 Universal Database
- Configure WebSphere Portal to use an IBM Tivoli Directory Server LDAP server
- Create a Network Deployment cell containing a single node cluster
- Select the best topology for their organization's needs
- Turn on logging and tracing
- Use XML Access to streamline management activities
- Back up and restore data
- Implement release management practices
- Experience with the WebSphere Application Server and JVM environments
- Database administration
- Security
This Installation and Administration of IBM WebSphere Portal on Linux class is beneficial for both experienced system administrators who are new to IBM WebSphere Portal and to WebSphere Portal system administrators (prior to WS Portal 6.1) who want to update their WebSphere Portal administration skills.