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IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager Version 7.0 Quick Start Guide

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Abstract

IBM® WebSphere® Portal is an enterprise portal solution with the complete portal services that are necessary to deliver a single point of personalized interaction to applications, content, business processes, and people for a unified user experience. IBM Web Content Manager is a powerful and sophisticated browser-based application designed to accelerate the creation, maintenance and delivery of critical business content across intranet, extranet, internet and portal sites.

Content

Step 1: Access the software and documentation


    Product software can be accessed from DVD or e-image, both available from Passport Advantage®. If you download your product from Passport Advantage, follow the directions in the download document at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24026545. This product is available as a single product offering with multiple licensing options. Review the International Program License Agreement for a list of licensing options and their respective entitlements.

    Depending on the product offering you purchased, your product may include some or all of the following other IBM programs:
    WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, WebSphere Process Server, DB2® Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition, Tivoli® Directory Server, Tivoli Directory Integrator Identity Edition, IBM Web Content Manager, WebSphere Portlet Factory, WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer, Lotus Domino® Enterprise Server, Lotus Sametime®, Lotus Quickr™ for WebSphere Portal, OmniFind® Enterprise Edition, Lotus Forms Viewer, Lotus Forms Turbo, Lotus Forms Server, and Lotus Forms Designer.
    For complete documentation, including installation instructions, see the WebSphere Portal information center at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/proddoc.html.

Step 2: Evaluate the hardware and system configuration
Step 3: Review the base architecture
    The following diagram demonstrates the base architecture of WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager:


Step 4: Install WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager
The Quick installation scenario provides step-by-step instructions to help you quickly install a basic working instance of WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager.
    1. You can either start the installation process from the DVD or from the appropriate downloaded product code for your operating system.
    Navigate to the Setup directory and run the following commands:
    • IBM i:
    • To install locally from a QSH session of the IBM i console, run install.sh.
    • To run the installer from the Microsoft® Windows® platform and install to a remote IBM i system, run install400.bat.
    • Linux® and UNIX®: Run ./install.sh.
    • Windows: Run install.bat.
    2. Follow the instructions in the installation pages.
    3. To verify that WebSphere Portal is running, open the following URL in a browser,
    "hxxp://example.com:port_number/wps/portal",
    where example.com is the fully qualified host name of the system that is running WebSphere Portal and port_number is the port number that is displayed on the confirmation page.
    For example, "hxxp://www.ibm.com:10039/wps/portal".
    To verify that Web Content Manager is running, start Portal, sign into the administrative console and click Applications > Content.
    4. Install any required fixes for WebSphere Application Server at this time. See Supported hardware and software for more information about required fixes that must be applied.

More information


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Modified date:
03 December 2021

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