Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1 Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows

Administering WebSphere Portal Express

Day-to-day administration tasks are covered, including using the available administration tools and how to create users and groups and manage their access. There are two methods for editing portal setup; portlets and XML configuration. XML configuration is the more advanced method.

• Users and groups
  IBM^® WebSphere^® Portal Express offers you centralized administration of users and user groups, allowing you to better define users and manage user access rights. Users can register and manage their own account information, or an administrator can provision and manage users. Group memberships can be used to give the required permissions to access an object or perform a request.
• Changing database passwords that are used by WebSphere Portal Express
  This section includes information on updating modified or expired database passwords in WebSphere Application Server.
• Controlling access
  After creating users and groups, you can assign them access to specific resources, roles, and policies to control what pages, portlets, applications, and information users and groups have access to.
• Browser behavior and scenarios
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• Managing portal resources with policies
  Use policies to specify and apply common and specialized settings that determine the how portal resources function for different classes of users.
• Managing portlets and portlet applications
  Before you make portlets or portlet applications available to your users by putting them on portal pages, you need to prepare them. This topic gives an overview of tasks that you might perform to prepare the portlets and portlet applications. This includes installing, deploying, and configuring portlets and applications.
• Creating pages
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• Managing pages
  Manage Pages allows you to create, edit, activate, order, and delete pages as well as external Web pages and labels. Available tasks depend on which item is selected. Each page can contain multiple pages. All pages on which you have the User or greater role are displayed in a navigation menu. You must expand pages to access nested pages. The options that you see are dependent upon your access level.
• Managing portlets on a page
  The Portlet Palette provides you with a collection of portlets that you can drag to the page for quick and easy page customization.
• Using portlet wires
  Use wires to exchange information or actions between portlets.
• Customizing pages
  The page customizer contains portlets for editing the layout, content, and appearance of pages. It also provides the Wires portlet, which allows users to set up connections between cooperative portlets on a page, and the Locks portlet, which allows users to lock and unlock containers and container content. You can configure the settings for these portlets to show a certain set of functions, restricting basic users from performing more advanced tasks.
• Managing your site
  You can create pages, labels, and URLs on a source server and publish them to other servers using the Resource Manager portlet. Once you publish your page, you can do additional testing on the target server before promoting the page to all users and groups with the appropriate access rights.
• Portal Search
  provides Portal Search to facilitate indexing content sources and searching for information. The topics under this section provide information about search in Version 6.1. They describe how you administer Portal Search and make content available for search by users.
• Multiple virtual portals
  This section describes how you can scope your WebSphere Portal Express to have multiple virtual portals.
• Using WSRP services
  IBM WebSphere Portal Express supports the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) standard. By using this standard, portals can provide portlets, applications, and content as WSRP services, and other portals can integrate the WSRP services as remote portlets for their users.
• Backup and restore on Windows or Linux
  Backup and recovery of data files and databases is an essential operation for any business system, particularly for data and applications running in production environments. Create and follow a plan for backing up and recovering data on all tiers of your IBM WebSphere Portal Express deployment running on Microsoft Windows or Linux.
• Reference
  Learn about the XML configuration interface and other attributes.