Tune your environment

Tuning the servers is important to the performance of your environment. By default, IBM® WebSphere® Portal is not tuned for a production environment. Therefore, to ensure optimal performance review and complete the steps in the IBM WebSphere Portal Tuning Guide. If a tuning guide is not available for the current release, use the tuning guide from the previous product version.

About this task

Tuning your environment involves tuning and configuring the various systems and components. The tuning guide provides general concepts and detailed configuration instructions. Instructions are included for the following areas:
  • Configuring the application server and the resources that are defined for that application server
  • Determining the cloning strategy for expanding or extending the environment
  • Tuning the database and database server
  • Tuning the directory server and its database
  • Tuning the web server
  • Tuning the operating system and network
  • Tuning the WebSphere Portal services

Procedure

  1. Use the performance tuning tool to tune the portal server.
  2. Read the tuning guide for assistance with tuning other servers in your environment.