Site Administrator information roadmap
- installs, configures, and maintains WebSphere Commerce and the associated software and hardware
- responds to system warnings, alerts, and errors
- diagnoses and resolves system problems
- controls access and authorization (creating and assigning members to the appropriate role)
- manages the Web site
- monitors performance
- manages load balancing tasks
- maintains server configurations for different stages of development such as testing, staging, and production
- Handles critical system backups
A WebSphere Commerce Site Administrator must have the following skills:
- Database administration
- Web Server administration
- WAS administration
- Basic XML
- General familiarity with WebSphere Commerce
WebSphere Commerce Site Administrators typically perform these tasks:
Installing
Install WebSphere Commerce is described in the WebSphere Commerce Installation Guide. Install additional software bundled with WebSphere Commerce is described in the Additional Software Guide. Migrating
Migrate from previous releases is described in the WebSphere Commerce Migration Guide. You may also be interested in database schema changes and the changes in the current release. Configuring
The initial configuration of the WebSphere Commerce system is described in the WebSphere Commerce Installation Guide. The primary tools used to configure a WebSphere Commerce site is the Configuration Manager. Configuration Manager is used to change configure various components of WebSphere Commerce and WebSphere Commerce Payments. Deploying
The Site Administrator is responsible for publishing (deploying) stores to the WebSphere Commerce Server. Administering
This topics in the Administering category highlight the tasks commonly performed by the Site Administrator. The two main tools used to administer a WebSphere Commerce site are the Administration Console and the Organization Administration Console.
- Use the Administration Console to:
- Work with messages
- Schedule jobs
- Disable components for the current session
- Configure e-mail activity accounts
- Update the registry, the registry must be refreshed after tax, shipping or access control configuration information has been changed
- Publish a store
- Reset an administrator account
- Use the Organization Administration Console to:
- Set up users. Before setting up users refer to the information in the Roles topic.
- Set up organizations.
- Add or exclude members from user groups.
- Work with access control including setting up policies, action groups, resource groups. Note that not all access control information can be changed by using the Organization Administration Console.
- Use command line utilities to:
- Load and extract access control policy XML files.
- Clean the database.
- Load, transform, and extract data.
- Propagate data from a staging server to the production server.
- Set up and use Payment Rules.
- Set up and use business analytics. To support business analytics, WebSphere Commerce provides an additional software product called WebSphere Commerce Analyzer.
Set up and use collaborative filtering. To support collaborative filtering, WebSphere Commerce provides an additional software product WebSphere Commerce Recommendation Engine powered by LikeMinds.
- Enable dynamic caching. WebSphere Commerce provides samples that you can use to enable dynamic caching.
- Use business auditing.
Developing
The Site Administrator may create XML files to load data, for example catalog data, into the WebSphere Commerce system. Securing
All information related to securing a WebSphere Commerce site. Performance tuning
- Set up performance monitoring using the WebSphere Commerce PMI module
- Use the Tivoli Performance viewer
Troubleshooting
Describes WebSphere Commerce error messages, and troubleshooting information for various WebSphere Commerce components.
Additional sources of information
The following Web sites also provide information on WebSphere Commerce that may be of interest to Site Administrators: