Installing the digital experience software

IBM's Exceptional Digital Experience is designed to help create, manage, simplify, and integrate your processes into an engaging online experience. IBM® WebSphere® Portal and IBM Web Content Manager are a part of the Exceptional Digital Experience. The product documentation uses digital experience software as a shorthand for IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager.

Prerequisites
Planning to install WebSphere Portal
Getting the software
Installing and preparing the prerequisite software
Roadmaps to deploy your system

About this task

Select a roadmap to guide you through the installation and deployment process. The installation process uses IBM Installation Manager to install the digital experience. Select your operating system to get started. After you complete the installation, you have a functional portal, unless you selected to install only the binaries for a migration path. Then, use the Configuration Wizard to complete the deployment.

  • AIX: Installing WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager
    Installing the digital experience software includes preparing your operating system and using IBM Installation Manager to install IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager. Then, use the Configuration Wizard to complete the deployment configuration.
  • HP: Installing WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager
    Installing the digital experience software includes preparing your operating system and using IBM Installation Manager to install IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager. Then, use the Configuration Wizard to complete the deployment configuration.
  • IBM i: Installing WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager
    Installing the digital experience software includes preparing your operating system and using IBM Installation Manager to install IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager. Then, use the Configuration Wizard to complete the deployment configuration.
  • Linux: Installing WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager
    Installing the digital experience software includes preparing your operating system and using IBM Installation Manager to install IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager. Then, use the Configuration Wizard to complete the deployment configuration.
  • Solaris: Installing WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager
    Installing the digital experience software includes preparing your operating system and using IBM Installation Manager to install IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager. Then, use the Configuration Wizard to complete the deployment configuration.
  • Windows: Installing WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager
    Installing the digital experience software includes preparing your operating system and using IBM Installation Manager to install IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager. Then, use the Configuration Wizard to complete the deployment configuration.
  • Supporting multiple profiles
    When you install IBM WebSphere Portal, a default configuration profile (wp_profile) is created . You can now create and maintain multiple profiles to create multiple independent portal instances; to create new profiles, and delete the old to recover from configuration problems; to create custom profiles to easily expand your cluster's capacity; or to update a Deployment Manager profile to handle portal servers without manual preparation steps. To support multiple profiles you must first prepare your system, create profiles, run configuration tasks on the profiles, and then maintain the profiles if you install maintenance packages. You might also need to update the configuration archive or delete a profile that is no longer required.
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