Configure WebSphere Portal with the configuration wizard

 

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Overview

The configuration wizard is a GUI for setting up WebSphere Portal that provides an alternative to running the command-line configuration tasks that are described in the installation procedures. You can use the configuration wizard to...

The configuration wizard is a series of help panels with information specific to the task being performed. Some fields might require a value that represents a new entity, such as a new database. Other fields might require a value that represents an existing entity, such as a user ID and password that you have already created.

Database user names and passwords should not contain spaces and should comply with both the database management system software requirements and WebSphere Portal requirements for administering users and groups.

Database transfer is the only configuration wizard task supported on i5/OS. To enable LDAP on i5/OS, use the Web administration utility.

The configuration wizard helps you complete the following tasks:

Transfer data to a different database

The database software must be installed and the appropriate databases and users must be created before you can use the configuration wizard.

The configuration wizard will not run correctly if the prerequisites for this task have not been met....

  • Data can be transferred from the default database but cannot be transferred to the default database.

  • Data can only be transferred to a DB2 for i5/OS database from the default database. Data cannot be transferred from a DB2 for i5/OS database.

  • Data can only be transferred to a DB2 for z/OS database using the configuration wizard when using a JDBC type 2 connection.

    If you are transferring to a DB2 for z/OS database with a JDBC type 4 connection, transfer your data using the command-line configuration tasks.

Connect additional node to a database

This option helps you connect the database for a clustered installation by removing the old data sources and JDBC provider and creating new data sources and JDBC provider.

Enable LDAP Security

This option helps you configure WebSphere Portal to use an LDAP user registry to store user information and to authenticate users. If you enable LDAP security with the configuration wizard, you can enable LDAP security only without realm support. To enable LDAP security with realm support, do not use the configuration wizard. Instead, using the command-line configuration tasks that are documented for configuring an LDAP user registry for WebSphere Portal.

If you plan to configure LDAP security, the LDAP software must be installed and set up appropriately before you can use the configuration wizard. The configuration wizard will not run correctly if the prerequisites for this task has not been met.

The configuration wizard uses helper files located in the profile_root/ConfigEngine/config/helpers directory.

The wizard finds the correct helper file based on the selected LDAP server, loads the values from the file, and pre-fills the related fields in the wizard. To use a different helper file, specify the file and location on the command line, for example:

    ./configwizard.sh -W setLdapProperties.propertiesFile=/Helper/patty-ids.properties

After using the Configuration Wizard to enable your LDAP security, adapt the attribute configuration to match the configured LDAP server(s) and your business needs; see the appropriate "Adapting the attribute configuration" file.

If you enable security and your environment is configured with a database other than the default database, do not run the Transfer data to a different database task again. Running this task again does not transfer the data inserted during the Enable LDAP security task and causes the site to become inoperable. To recover from this situation, disable and then re-enable security.


Docs

  1. Start the configuration wizard on i5/OS
  2. Start the configuration wizard on UNIX
  3. Start the configuration wizard on Windows


Parent topic:

Configure WebSphere Portal


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