Deploy the authoring environment

The first environment to deploy is the authoring environment. This environment can initially be used by a small team as a development environment, but can eventually be used as the authoring environment for all the users. The authoring environment is deployed based on the technical architecture defined in the project design documents.

1. Based on the database architecture defined in the project design document, the database administrator deploys a database server for the authoring environment.

   • Database

2. Based on the security architecture defined in the project design document, the LDAP administrator:

   1. Creates a new LDAP server if one does not exist.

   2. Creates all the groups and users required for the web content system.

   • Security architecture

3. Based on the server architecture defined in the project design document, the HCL WebSphere Portal administrator does the following:

   1. Installs a portal server or cluster of servers.

   2. Configures the portal server or cluster to use the database server setup by the database administrator.

   3. Configures HCL WebSphere Portal to use the LDAP server as its user repository.

   4. Configures various WebSphere Application Server, HCL WebSphere Portal and WCM configuration properties to ensure the system is correctly setup for web content authoring and is tuned for optimal performance.

   • Install

   • Configure

   • Web Content Manager

4. Based on the information architecture and security architecture defined in the project design document, the HCL WebSphere Portal administrator:

   1. Creates all the libraries required for the web content system.

   2. Assigns users and groups to the roles and access permissions.

   3. Create all pages required by the web content system.

   4. Adds all required authoring portlets to the appropriate pages and configures the authoring portlets for use by different teams to create and manage web content items.

   5. Adds all required web content viewer portlets to the required pages for use as preview pages.

   • Users, Groups and Roles

   • Security architecture

   • Display content with Web Content Viewers

5. Final testing and tuning of the authoring environment is undertaken by all administrators.

Results

The authoring environment is now ready to use.

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