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Knowledge Collection: Frequently Asked Questions for IBM WebSphere Portal
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Abstract
A collection of documents that address frequently asked questions for IBM WebSphere Portal.
 
 
Content
Technotes and developerWorks articles:
  1. What are the common causes for WebSphere Member Manager search issues? (1213617
    A misconfiguration of the WebSphere® Member Manager (WMM) component typically results in incomplete and/or unexpected search results.

  2. What are the common causes for WebSphere Portal and external security manager integration issues? (1213618)
    When attempting to set up an integrated environment that includes WebSphere® Portal and an external security manager (ESM), you may encounter issues in the areas of login, redirection, or session timeout.

  3. Common Causes for WebSphere Portal Login Issues (1214010)
    After enabling security on the WebSphere® Portal server or making a manual change to the configuration, login issues can occur, including the inability to login or a significant delay in login performance.

  4. Common causes for Portal Access Control related problems (1208861)
    Portal Access Control problems normally manifest themselves as an inability to view or modify resources in WebSphere® Portal such as pages, portlets, or user/group objects.

  5. Most common issues with configuring Remote Search with WebSphere Portal 5.1 (1214014)
    The most common problem that administrators face when configuring the Remote Search mechanism in WebSphere® Portal is understanding the architecture, interactions, and roles of different components that are used in Remote Search.

  6. Common causes for Problems with Portal Toolkit and Unit Test Environment (1213967)
    This document describes some common problems working with the WebSphere® Portal Toolkit and Portal tools and the Unit Test Environment.

  7. Troubleshooting WebSphere Portal runtime problems (1210759)
    IBM WebSphere® Portal server runs as an application server in WebSphere Application Server and is subject to JVM problems that occur in some environments. This technote covers the most frequently requested data sets to help troubleshoot problems that may arise.

  8. Common issues with Business Process Integration in WebSphere Portal (1210481)
    What areas can cause problems with Business Process Integration™ in WebSphere® Portal, and how do you troubleshoot issues?

  9. Common Questions for portlet deployment with WebSphere Portal Server (1214015)
    What are some common portlet deployment problems and solutions for WebSphere® Portal?

  10. A step by step guide to configuring a WebSphere Portal V5.1 cluster using WebSphere Application Server V5.1.1.1
    Step through building a fully-functional WebSphere Portal V5.1 cluster using an external database and an LDAP directory for security.

  11. Best practices for developing portlets using JSR 168 and WebSphere Portal V5.02
    This paper describes best practices for designing and developing portlets that conform to the JSR-168 standard, and which leverage the IBM WebSphere Portal infrastructure for JSR 168.

  12. What are the Common PIM Portlets in WebSphere Portal 5.1.x? (1191453)
    What are the IBM Common Personal Information Management (PIM) Portlets that are available in IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1.x?

  13. Fix required in order to run Common PIM Portlets with WP 5.1.0.1/5.1.0.2 and Domino 6.5.4 (1206948)
    In order to use the Common Personal Information Management (Common PIM) Portlets in IBM WebSphere Portal 5.1.0.1 or 5.1.0.2 with IBM Lotus Domino 6.5.4 back-end mail servers, a fix is required.

  14. Is performance tuning of caches possible for the Common Mail Portlet? (1199570)
    Discusses what performance tuning of caches is possible with the Common Mail Portlet.

  15. WebSphere Portal 5.1 Cumulative Fix 2 (4010518)
    This cumulative fix updates Portal 5.1 and 5.1.0.1 to Portal 5.1.0.2.

  16. How to configure SSO between WebSphere Portal and Lotus Instant Messaging when each use a different LDAP directory (1205909)
    This document is designed to explain how to configure an environment when IBM WebSphere Portal 5.0 or 5.1 authenticates against one LDAP directory and IBM Lotus Sametime authenticates against Domino LDAP.

  17. How to configure SSO between WebSphere Portal and Team Workplace when each use a different LDAP directory (1205905)
    This document is designed to explain how to configure an environment when IBM WebSphere Portal 5.0 or 5.1 authenticates against one LDAP directory and IBM Lotus Team Workplace (QuickPlace) authenticates against Domino LDAP.

  18. Required interim fixes for WebSphere Application Server and Websphere Business Integration Server Foundation when installing WebSphere Portal Versions 5.1.0.x (1210966)
    When installing WebSphere® Portal, if you want to use a higher version of WebSphere Application Server than is listed in the Information Center then you will need to apply the appropriate interim fixes as shown below.

  19. Certificate missing from CACERTS file, Unknown Certificate Error (1198362)
    When running WebSphere Portal Server on WebSphere Application Server 5.0.x and trying to deploy portlets, you are receiving an "unknown certificate" error in your Portal logs.

  20. How to Set Up WebSphere Portal Security with LDAP over SSL (1214376)
    Your existing LDAP server has a security policy in place that does not allow it to open up its non-SSL port for your configuration. Is it possible to configure WebSphere Portal via the configuration task over the SSL port?

  21. IBM HTTP Server 2.0 and Apache 2.0 plug-in support for WebSphere Application Server V5.0 and V5.1 releases (1115062)
    How to configure the IBM® HTTP Server 2.0 and Apache 2.0 plug-in with WebSphere® Application Server V5.0 and V5.1 releases.

  22. New users unable to add users to Sametime Contact List through People Finder Portlet (1193340)
    An administrator discovers that after a new user is added to the LDAP directory for the Portal server that the user is unable to add other users to the Sametime Contact List through the People Finder portlet.

  23. WebSphere Portal Version 5.1 Step by Step Clustering Guide (1203469)
    This guide takes you through the process of creating a WebSphere® Portal Version 5.1 cluster step by step.

  24. JSR 168 portlet does not display dynamic titles (1213985)
    You have implemented getTitle() in a JSR 168 portlet, but the title does not appear in the WebSphere® Portal display at runtime.

  25. After enabling security in WebSphere Portal 5.1.x, errors appear in SystemOut.log of server1 (1217509)
    After running "enable-security-ldap" or "enable-security-wmmur-ldap," errors appear in SystemOut.log

  26. Problems to obtain a SOAP Port from WAS for Portlet Deployment (1219191)
    Deploying a portlet application WAR file on a base application server using XML Configuration Interface or Administration Portlet fails. The Portal log indicates that Portal was not able to obtain the SOAP port from the Application Server.

  27. Database transfer to DB2 fails due to default schema limitation (1221801)
    When transferring from Cloudscape to DB2, an error appears during the database-transfer task.

Tutorials:
  1. Configuration and deployment options for IBM DB2 Content Manager Portlets V8.3
    Learn how to configure and deploy the IBM DB2 Content Manager Portlets V8.3 with this step-by-step tutorial.

  2. Creating and deploying a portlet service for IBM and JSR168 portlets
    This tutorial provides a step-by-step approach to creating a portlet service that can be invoked by either an IBM portlet or a JSR 168 portlet. You can make portlet applications flexible and maintainable with widely accessible portlet services.

  3. Implementing JSR 168 inter-portlet communication using Rational Application Developer v6.0 and WebSphere Portal v5.1
    This tutorial shows you how to implement JSR 168 compliant cooperative portlets using IBM Rational Application Developer V6.0 and IBM WebSphere Portal V5.1. You can create JSR 168 compliant cooperative portlets, passing multiple values between them.
 
 
 

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Document information
 Product categories:
 Software
 Organizational Productivity, Portals & Collaboration
 Portals
 WebSphere Portal End of Support Products
 General
 Operating system(s):
  AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, i5/OS
 Software version:
  5.0, 5.1.0
 Software edition:
  Enable, Extend, Server
 Reference #:
  7007411
 IBM Group:
 Software Group
 Modified date:
 2006-03-10

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