WebSphere

 

Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows

 

Verifying the migration tasks

This section provides information that you can use to verify the success of the migration tasks.

Perform the appropriate tasks to verify that your migration was successful:

  1. Verify Notes and Domino Web Access (iNotes™) portlets migration

  2. Verify migration of portal clients

  3. Verify migration of user customizations

  4. Verify migration of credential vault data

  5. Verify migration of themes and skins

  6. Verify migration of portlet applications

  7. Verify migration of portlet configuration data

  8. Verify migration of virtual resources

  9. Verify migration of pages

  1. Verify Notes and Domino Web Access (iNotes) portlets migration

    1. Log in to the current WebSphere Portal Express Administrative Interface.

    2. Click Portlet Management > Portlets.

    3. There should be a portlet in the portlet list for each portlet that existed in the previously installed version.

      In some previous versions of WebSphere Portal Express, these portlets were individual portlets, while in the current version, they are copies of one portlet.

    4. Select each migrated portlet, click Configure Portlet, and verify that the portlet settings were migrated correctly. If you are migrating pages that had Notes portlets in them, the portlets should be on the page after migration and should work as they did on the previous version.

  2. Verify migration of portal clients

    1. Log in to the current WebSphere Portal Express Administrative Interface.

    2. Click Administration > Portal Settings > Supported Clients.

    3. Verify that the portal clients that you migrated show up in the list of supported clients.

    4. Select the clients that were migrated and click Edit Selected Client to verify that all settings for the client were migrated.

    5. Verify that your migrated clients are able to access WebSphere Portal Express.

  3. Verify migration of user customizations

    User customizations are artifacts that are attributed to a portal user that has EDIT but not MANAGE permissions on a page. These are created when such a user changes the layout of a page or edits portlet settings.

    1. Log in to the current WebSphere Portal Express with credentials of users having the customizations.

    2. Verify that all user customizations from the previous version are present in the current version. You can also pick users at random and ensure that the users see the correct customizations in the current version by comparing them visually to customizations in the previous version.

  4. Verify migration of credential vault segments and slots

    These procedures help verify that the credential slots and segments were migrated successfully. Existing credential vault data must be migrated with a separate manual procedure that is described in the Migrating the remaining access control configuration section.

    1. Log in to the current WebSphere Portal Express Administrative Interface.

    2. Click Access and then click Credential Vault on the left navigation.

    3. Using the Manage vault segments and Manage system vault slots options, verify that credential segments and slots from the previous version are now also present in the current version.

  5. Verify migration of themes and skins

    1. Log in to the current WebSphere Portal Express Administrative Interface.

    2. Click Portal user interface > Themes and Skins in the left navigation.

    3. Verify that the themes and skins that are listed are the ones that you migrated from the previous version to the current version.

    4. Verify that you are able to associate migrated themes and skins to existing pages and portlets, and verify that they produce the required view.

  6. Verify migration of portlet applications

    1. Log in to the current WebSphere Portal Express Administrative Interface.

    2. Click Portlet Management > Applications on the left navigation.

    3. Verify that the portlet applications that are listed are the ones that you migrated from the previous version.

    4. For each Web Module, verify that all your portlet applications also display in the Portlet Applications list.

    5. For each portlet application that is migrated and for which you have set up parameters on the previous version, click Edit portlet application next to the portlet applications list and verify that the parameters were migrated correctly.
    You should also verify the access control for migrated portlet application and portlets using the Administrative Interface.

    1. Click Access > Resource Permissions and select Portlet Applications from Resource Types.

    2. Click Assign Access to verify the access control information.

    3. Click Access > Resource Permissions and select Portlets from Resource Types.

    4. Click Assign Access to verify the access control information.

    You can also perform a full export of the current WebSphere Portal Express after migration is complete and verify the roles in the exported XML file. Refer to The XML configuration interface for more information.

  7. Verify migration of portlet configuration data

    1. Log in to the current WebSphere Portal Express Administrative Interface.

    2. Click Portlet Management > Portlets on the left navigation.

    3. Verify that all portlet configuration data migrated from the previous version are present in the current version by selecting the portlet from the list and clicking Configure portlet.

  8. Verify migration of virtual resources

    1. Log in to the current WebSphere Portal Express Administrative Interface.

    2. Click Access > Resource Permissions on the left navigation.

    3. Select Virtual Resources from Resource Types.

    4. Verify that all virtual resources migrated from the previous version are present in the current version.

  9. Verify migration of pages

    If only the Welcome and Getting Started pages display, see Problem: After migration, only the Welcome and Getting Started pages are available for information; otherwise, migration of pages was successful.

 

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