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Troubleshooting the Portal configuration

November 29, 2006 by Kenny Smith

In looking at the troubleshooting section of the Portal 6 infocenter, I ran across a good troubleshooting article. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=688&context=SSHRKX&q1=enable-security-wmmur-ldap&uid=swg27008792&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en To reiterate one of the key points in the LDAP setup, you MUST disable global security before running the enable-security task.“wpsconfig disable-security” Then validate your LDAP setup with“wpsconfig validate-ldap-wmmur” (the wmmur is for realm support) Once … Read more

Portal Security Overview

November 21, 2006 by Kenny Smith

This is a very informative article on how WebSphere Portal security works. It also does a great job of explaining WebSphere app server security, and how external security managers can hook in. It was written by the guys who architected the whole Portal security, so it is from the horses mouth, so to say. http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/wes/pdf/0611_buehler-WP60-SecurityOverview.pdf(note: … Read more

Transferring a Portal Database to DB2

October 25, 2006 by Kenny Smith

Portal installs out of the box using Cloudscape (a.k.a. Apache Derby). Needles to say, this is not a scalable database, but is appropriate for demos. A RDBMS is very CPU and disk intensive and often memory intensive as well. Separating the db from the Portal is the first step in scaling a Portal environment up. … Read more

Getting WebSphere Portal 6 up an running

August 29, 2006 by Kenny Smith

WebSphere Portal 6 has come out about a month ago. Since that time, I’ve been trying to get it properly configured on an iSeries in our lab, and on a Windows VM image. It is up an running, and I’ve taught a class at a client using one of those images. I have a few … Read more