Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Introduction: WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 -- 1.1 IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for Multiplatforms -- 1.2 IBM WebSphere Portal Extend for Multiplatforms -- 1.3 Tools and components -- Chapter 2. Portal technology -- 2.1 Portal evolution -- 2.1.1 The generations of portal technology -- 2.2 Overview -- 2.2.1 WebSphere Portal architecture -- 2.2.2 WebSphere Portal tooling -- 2.3 WebSphere Portal -- 2.3.1 Portal concepts -- 2.3.2 Portlets -- 2.4 Highlights of WebSphere Portal V5 -- 2.4.1 Portal install -- 2.4.2 General infrastructure -- 2.4.3 Event broker -- 2.4.4 Member subsystem -- 2.4.5 Authentication -- 2.4.6 Authorization -- 2.4.7 Search -- 2.4.8 Content management -- 2.4.9 Content publishing -- 2.4.10 Transcoding -- 2.4.11 Struts portlet framework -- 2.4.12 Click-to-Action -- 2.4.13 Portal Toolkit -- Chapter 3. WebSphere Portal V5 prerequisites and planning -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Architecture review -- 3.2.1 HTTP server separation -- 3.2.2 Simple-machine -- 3.2.3 Multiple-machine -- 3.2.4 Multiple-tier -- 3.2.5 Vertical scaling -- 3.2.6 Horizontal scaling -- 3.3 Hardware and software prerequisites -- 3.3.1 Microsoft Windows 2000 -- 3.3.2 SUSE SLES 8 -- 3.3.3 IBM AIX 5.2 -- 3.3.4 Sun Solaris 8.0 -- 3.3.5 zLinux -- 3.4 Planning for the database -- 3.4.1 Using Cloudscape or another robust database -- 3.4.2 Local or remote database server -- 3.4.3 Database preparation -- 3.4.4 Database migration -- 3.4.5 Database prerequisites -- 3.5 Planning for the LDAP -- 3.6 Planning for Web servers -- 3.6.1 Existing Web server -- 3.6.2 Local or remote Web server -- 3.6.3 Web server product choice -- 3.6.4 Port conflict avoidance -- 3.6.5 Web server prerequisites.

3.7 Planning for WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal -- 3.7.1 An existing WebSphere Application Server -- 3.7.2 Coexisting WebSphere Application Servers -- 3.7.3 Multiple instances of WebSphere Portal on the same machine -- 3.7.4 Installation without a configuration -- 3.7.5 Default virtual host consideration -- 3.7.6 Installing an empty Portal -- 3.7.7 Context root planning -- 3.7.8 If a firewall exists -- 3.7.9 WebSphere Application Server Enterprise Edition prerequisites -- 3.8 Planning for WebSphere Portal security -- 3.8.1 Authentication and the user registry -- 3.8.2 External authentication -- 3.8.3 External authorization -- 3.8.4 Supported external security software -- 3.8.5 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) -- 3.8.6 Certificate consideration -- 3.8.7 Deleting passwords -- 3.8.8 Tivoli Access Manager -- 3.9 Planning for the clustering -- 3.9.1 Vertical clustering -- 3.9.2 Horizontal clustering -- 3.9.3 Cross-platform clustering -- 3.10 Planning for content publishing -- 3.11 Planning Lotus Collaborative Components -- 3.11.1 Sametime and QuickPlace -- 3.11.2 IBM WebSphere Portal Collaboration Center -- 3.12 Translation server and transcoding -- 3.13 Typical scenarios -- 3.13.1 Quick install -- 3.13.2 WebSphere Portal install with existing WebSphere environment -- 3.13.3 WebSphere Portal install with existing WebSphere environment and security enabled -- 3.13.4 WebSphere Portal install with remote robust database -- 3.13.5 WebSphere Portal with remote robust database and extended security using an LDAP directory -- 3.13.6 WebSphere Portal with Lotus Collaborative Components -- 3.13.7 WebSphere Portal with WebSphere Portal content publishing -- 3.13.8 WebSphere Portal with extended security using an external security manager -- 3.13.9 WebSphere Portal in a cluster environment -- 3.13.10 Remote server attach portlet development environment.

3.13.11 Upgrading from WebSphere Portal V4 to V5 -- 3.13.12 Additional components to add to WebSphere Portal -- 3.14 Web browser considerations -- 3.15 Install and uninstall method considerations -- 3.15.1 Uninstall considerations -- 3.15.2 Database considerations -- Chapter 4. WebSphere Portal: Microsoft Windows 2000 installation -- 4.1 Using install logs -- 4.1.1 Using WebSphere Portal log files -- 4.2 Base installation -- 4.3 Migrating the database from Cloudscape to DB2 -- 4.4 Installing IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition V8.1.1.94 -- 4.5 Configuring WebSphere Portal for DB2 -- 4.6 Adding an LDAP to the portal -- 4.6.1 Installing Domino Enterprise Server Release 5.0.12 -- 4.6.2 Configuring Domino server settings -- 4.6.3 Installing Domino Administrator Release 5.0.12 -- 4.6.4 Configuring Domino Administrator Release 5.0.12 -- 4.6.5 Setting up Domino LDAP -- 4.6.6 Updating the Access Control List of the Domino Directory -- 4.6.7 Specifying Domino LDAP configuration settings -- 4.7 Creating the Web SSO configuration -- 4.8 Installing Lotus QuickPlace Release 3.0.1 -- 4.9 Specifying QuickPlace 3.0.1 server settings -- 4.9.1 Adding QuickPlaceServlet -- 4.10 Installing Lotus Sametime Release 3.0 -- 4.11 Configuring QuickPlace to use Sametime awareness -- 4.12 Applying Domino Fix Pack 5.0.12 -- 4.12.1 Editing the Sametime.ini file to set the security level -- 4.13 Configuring WebSphere Portal for Domino Directory -- 4.14 Deploying Lotus Collaborative Components -- 4.14.1 Enabling Lotus Collaborative Components -- 4.14.2 Deploying collaborative portlets -- 4.15 Installing IBM WebSphere Portal Collaboration Center -- 4.16 Configuring the Collaboration Center portlet -- 4.16.1 Configuring the Web Conferencing portlet -- 4.16.2 Configuring People Finder 5.0 -- Chapter 5. WebSphere Portal: SUSE SLES 8 Linux installation.

5.1 Overview of WebSphere Portal installation on Linux -- 5.2 Preparing the machines for installation -- 5.3 WebSphere Portal installation -- 5.3.1 Installing WebSphere Portal V5.0 -- 5.3.2 Installing manual fixes for WebSphere Application Server V5.0 -- 5.4 IBM HTTP Server installation -- 5.4.1 IBM HTTP Server installation -- 5.4.2 Installing WebSphere Plug-in Cumulative Fix for versions 5.0.0, 5.0.1, and 5.0.22 -- 5.4.3 Verifying the installation -- 5.4.4 Configuring WebSphere Portal with a remote IBM HTTP Server -- 5.5 Installing IBM DB2 V8.1 for WebSphere Portal -- 5.5.1 Installation of IBM DB2 Server V8.1 -- 5.5.2 Installing IBM DB2 administration client V8.1 -- 5.5.3 Installing IBM DB2 V8.1 FP1 -- 5.5.4 Migrating databases from Cloudscape to IBM DB2 -- 5.5.5 Configuring WebSphere Portal for IBM DB2 -- 5.6 Lotus Domino V5.0.12 installation -- 5.6.1 Installing Lotus Domino Enterprise Server V5.0.12 -- 5.6.2 Configuring Domino Server settings -- 5.6.3 Installing Domino Administrator -- 5.6.4 Configuring Domino Administrator -- 5.6.5 Setting up Domino Directory -- 5.6.6 Configuring WebSphere Portal for Domino Directory -- 5.6.7 Verifying the LDAP configuration -- Chapter 6. WebSphere Portal: IBM AIX V5.2 installation -- 6.1 Installing Portal in a multi-tier environment -- 6.2 The WebSphere Portal installation -- 6.3 Install a remote HTTP server -- 6.4 Configure the remote HTTP server -- 6.4.1 The plugin configuration -- 6.4.2 Add a new host alias -- 6.4.3 Update and copy the Web server plugin configuration -- 6.4.4 Disable access to port 9081 - optional -- 6.5 Install and configure DB2 Server -- 6.5.1 IBM DB2 Server installation -- 6.5.2 IBM DB2 Fix pack installation -- 6.5.3 IBM DB2 Administration Client installation -- 6.5.4 Create remote databases -- 6.5.5 Configure connection to remote databases -- 6.5.6 Transfer data to DB2 database.

6.6 Install and configure LDAP -- 6.6.1 Install IBM Directory Server -- 6.6.2 Configure the Administrator DN -- 6.6.3 Configure the LDAP database -- 6.6.4 Configure the Web Administration Tool -- 6.6.5 Configure servers into Web Administrator Tool -- 6.6.6 Install IBM Directory Server V5.1 Client -- 6.6.7 Prepare LDAP server for WebSphere Portal -- 6.6.8 Configure Portal with LDAP settings -- 6.7 Validate the overall configuration -- 6.7.1 Validate database configuration -- 6.7.2 Validate LDAP configuration -- Chapter 7. WebSphere Portal: clustering -- 7.1 WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment -- 7.1.1 Installing Network Deployment machine -- 7.1.2 Installing the Enterprise extensions on Network Deployment -- 7.1.3 Installing Network Deployment Fix Pack 1 -- 7.1.4 Installing WebSphere Enterprise Fix Pack 1 -- 7.1.5 Validating the Network Deployment installation -- 7.1.6 Enabling global security on Network Deployment -- 7.1.7 Setting the required authority for wpsadmin -- 7.2 Installing and configuring WebSphere Portal on node 1 -- 7.3 Installing and configuring WebSphere Portal on node 2 -- 7.3.1 The Portal02 configuration -- 7.4 Adding portal nodes to the cell -- 7.4.1 Adding Portal01 to the cell -- 7.4.2 Adding Portal02 to the cell -- 7.5 Creating the cluster -- 7.5.1 Starting the cluster -- 7.5.2 Updating the Web Server plugin -- 7.5.3 Validating the cluster configuration -- 7.6 Deploying portlets -- 7.7 Deploying themes and skins -- 7.8 Enabling dynamic caching -- 7.9 Removing the Portal node from Deployment Manager -- 7.9.1 Removing the node from the cell -- 7.9.2 Removing all Enterprise Application instances from DM01 -- Chapter 8. WebSphere Portal: Sun Solaris 8.0 installation -- 8.1 Scenario overview -- 8.1.1 The architecture -- 8.1.2 Installation and configuration sequence -- 8.1.3 Skill requirements.

8.2 Hardware and software used for multi-tier configuration.