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 considerations

   • Cloning a web content repository

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

   1. Installs a WebSphere Portal server or cluster of servers.

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

   3. Configures various WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager configuration properties to ensure the system is correctly setup for web content delivery and is tuned for optimal performance.

   • Installing

   • Configuring

   • Managing user data

   • Configure Web Content Manager

3. Based on the information architecture and security architecture defined in the project design document, the 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.

   • Work with managed pages

   • Display content with web content viewers

4. The WebSphere Portal administrator configures and enables syndication.

   • Syndication concepts

   • Work with syndicators and subscribers

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

The delivery environment is now ready to use.

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