Deploy the delivery environment

The delivery environment is used to deliver the website to the website viewers. The delivery environment is deployed based on the requirements defined in the project design document.

1. Based on the database architecture defined in the project design document, the database administrator does the following:

   1. Deploys a database server for the delivery environment.

   2. Clones the data stored on the authoring database onto the delivery database.

   • Database

   • Cloning a web content repository

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

   • Install

   • Configure

   • Web Content Manager

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

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

   2. Adds all required web content viewer portlets to the appropriate pages.

   • Display content with Web Content Viewers

4. The HCL WebSphere Portal administrator configures and enables syndication.

   • Syndication

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

Results

The delivery environment is now ready to use.

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