Best Practice : WebSphere Portal & WCM

Using wsadmin to modify configuration variables

2010-06-01T01:02:00.002+05:30

The backupConfig and restoreConfig commands for the WebSphere Application Server are pretty handy. The backupConfig command allows you to back up all of the configuration for a selected profile to an archive. The restoreConfig command allows you to restore (or import) the configuration from such an archive to a target profile. You can employ these commands for many purposes such as sharing a

Changing cell names, node names, host names

2010-06-01T01:01:00.002+05:30

how to change cell names, node names, and host names for a given WebSphere Application Server environment. It usually starts by someone asking me what configuration files they need to change when they want to update this information, and is followed by their surprise when I tell them none. The reason I say that is because it’s time consuming, hard, and unnecessary for you to figure this out.

Render pzn cmpnt using wcm api

2010-05-31T23:50:00.000+05:30

How can I render a Personalization (PZN) component using the IBM® Web Content Management (WCM) API? AnswerThe WCM API provides features to render content items as well as library components such as the Web Content Management Personalization component.Summary of how to render personalization component in WCMFirst get the user workspaceNext set the web content library.Get the document iterator for

Changing the language used in the log file

2010-05-31T18:46:00.000+05:30

Changing the language used in the log fileBy default, information in the log file is written in the language that was used for the WebSphere Portal installation. However, because WebSphere Portal supports a number of languages, you can choose to have the log file information written in a language other than that used during installation.To change the language used for the log file, edit the file

Configuring Netegrity SiteMinder to Work with IBM WebSphere Portal

2010-05-31T18:32:00.000+05:30

Before the configuring Netegrity SiteMinder, please make sure you finish the following tasks: 1. Install WebSphere Application server 6.0.2.17 and WebSphere Portal server 6.0.1 2. Install HTTP server 6.0 3. Install Web Server plug-in for WebSphere Application Server In the following instructions, WebSphere Application Server and HTTP server 6.0 are installed on the same machine: for example

WebSphere Application Server production environment set up practice guidelines

2010-05-31T18:31:00.000+05:30

WebSphere Application Server production environment and demonstrates the structures there are many different environments, due to the diversity of production environments, application performance tuning scene, error diagnosis and other strict requirements, WebSphere Application Server production environment involves the installation of the pre-installation system inspection, installation,

Some more portal faq

2010-05-11T20:57:00.002+05:30

Q:Is it possible to apply CSS for WCM rich-text editor?A:To get a consistent style of texts created with an authoring template, so the CSS is able to be applied into rich text editor. In the Content Form Properties you can define default styles and add your CSS file for rich text field in the Authoring template.Q:Is it possible to change subadmin groups of virtual portal after virtual portal was

portal faqs

2010-05-11T20:50:00.000+05:30

Q: How can I change a realm’s name after I made the configuration? A: Remember to back up the wimconfig.xml file, located in /config/cells/ cellname/wim/config/.Two methods, Manually edit wimconfiq.xml file and replace as below,name="oldPortalRealm" securityUse="active"allowOperationIfReposDown="false">OrRun ConfigEngine.bat wp-rename-realm afteradding/modifying the following properties in

Some portal faqs

2010-05-11T20:45:00.002+05:30

Q:Why does portlet become active even it was inactive before publishing?A:Under the 'Portlet Publishing' section, "create pages for portlets" was selected by default setting, which creates a page on the portal server under the default label "Rational Portlets" and adds the published portlet to the page. So when you deselect it, portlet is inactive.Q:How to let Dojo css are not being loaded on

Simplest SSO implementation

2009-11-17T23:34:00.001+05:30

OA needs to be done with the project and the Portal of the SSO, two applications were on different servers, but top-level domain name is identical to the simple formula, and I said, it used domain cookie bar, they still will not talk for a long time doing,囧~~~~, Suppose portal's domain name is portal.xxxx.com in the Portal log is complete, set a cookie: <% @ Page language = "java" pageEncoding

Can a URL mapping and friendly URL contain the same name?

2009-11-17T23:33:00.002+05:30

Question In IBM WebSphere Portal, can a URL mapping and a friendly URL have the same name? For example, can you specify both a friendly URL via the Page Properties administrative portlet for your home page named "Home", and also create a URL mapping named "Home" for your home page via the URL Mapping administrative portlet? Answer The usage of identical names for friendly URLs and URL

Getting Page Title

2009-11-17T23:33:00.001+05:30

Using Model SPI to get Page titleIBM WebSphere Portal uses a concept of Models for content aggregation, to track user's pages etc. The Model SPI provides access to these models. The attached code provides an example to illustrate on how to get a title of a page using model SPI in JSR 286 portlet. Here is the code snippet to get title of pagepublic String getTitle(PortletRequest request,

How to get the seedlist for the WebSphere Portal search engine in version 6.1.x Portal for either the portal collection or the WCM collection

2009-11-17T23:31:00.001+05:30

How do I generate the output for the search seedlist in portal version 6.1.x for either the portal collection or the WCM collection? Cause The reason for this is to examine if there is a problem with the search engine crawler or the seedlist servlet that provides a list of documents to be crawled and indexed in the portal. This is used in debugging if it is suspected that the proper amount

Just JSR 168

2009-11-17T23:13:00.004+05:30

The Java Standardization Request 168 (JSR 168) defines a portlet specification, including a contract between the portlet container and the portlet. JSR 168 is defined by the Java Community Process (JCP). The JSR 168 was co-led by IBM and Sun and had a large Expert Group that helped to create the final version which is now available. This Expert Group consisted of Apache Software Foundation, Art

Comparing JSR 168 and the IBM Portlet API

2009-11-17T22:55:00.000+05:30

Comparing JSR 168 and the IBM Portlet APIThis section gives a high level comparison between the new JSR 168 Portlet API and the IBM Portlet API. First, it covers the concepts that are similar; then, it explains some of the differences between the two.SimilaritiesThe following concepts are very similar in JSR 168 and the IBM Portlet API.Feature Similarities Differences Portlet modesBoth support

Cross Site Request Forgery. What it is and how to work around it.

2009-11-17T22:45:00.002+05:30

If there's a way to solve the Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) issue that has been highlighted by every web Security Team. Previously, normal a common filter application (J2EE Filter) that filters out Cross Site Scripting Characters from a request and response. This helped tremendously in passing the security assessment as all they have to do is define the filter on their applications and

Portlet Context,Portlet Config and Portal Context

2009-11-17T22:43:00.000+05:30

PortletContext is similar to servletConext and is used to get values declared in web.xml.Inside doView method of your custom portlet ( implementing GenericPortlet.), you can get context param as below getPortletContext().getInitParameter("ContextParam") PortletContext scope is application wide.If you set any attribute to portletContext, that would be available to all the portlets in that

WebSphere Portal DataBases

2009-11-17T22:42:00.000+05:30

Understanding the Portal Server ConfigurationSo far, you have seen and hopefully understood how to install and verify the WebSpherePortal server. Now you will see how the Portal server’s configuration data is stored in thedefault Cloudscape database and in files in the file system. If you want to configure andmaintain your portal server in a production environment then you need to have acomplete

How to take a heapdump and a javacore on a WebSphere Portal server

2009-11-17T22:41:00.000+05:30

Sometimes taking a heapdump or a javacore on a Portal system can help to diagnose hung threads or a stalled system. A heapdump is a dump of the memory of the Java heap. A javacore provides insights into the various processing running inside of the heap at a given time.Javacores should be taken two minutes apart in order determine if processes are hanging across intervals.Depending on the

Accessing parameter from QueryString in IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1

2009-11-17T22:40:00.001+05:30

This is very simple in IBM WebSphere Portal V 6.1Consider we have url : https://localhost:60035/wps/portal/test?PhoneId=35102Import com.ibm.ws.portletcontainer.core.impl.RenderRequestImplWrite down code in Portlet.public void doView(RenderRequest request, RenderResponse response) throws PortletException, IOException {RenderRequestImpl renderRequestImpl = (RenderRequestImpl)request;String

How to get path(/wps/portal or /wps/myportal) in IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1 theme

2009-11-17T22:39:00.001+05:30

Import following object in jsp or classimport com.ibm.portal.state.accessors.url.ServerContext;import com.ibm.wps.services.ServiceManager;import com.ibm.wps.services.config.ConfigService;import com.ibm.wps.state.accessors.url.ServerContextOnConfigFactory;import com.ibm.wps.state.phases.ServerContextFactory;ConfigService configService = (ConfigService)ServiceManager.getService(

WebSphere Portal site management - publishing pages using a SUN Web server

2009-10-28T01:19:00.000+05:30

Problem(Abstract) Even if you successfully configured your portal with a SUN Web server as the target server for site management, the browser might prompt you for the Web server administrator user ID and password when you publish a page to this target server several times. Symptom When you use portal site management to publish a page to the SUN target Web server, the browser prompts you

Monitoring IBM WebSphere Portal caches using IBM Tivoli Performance Viewer

2009-10-28T01:16:00.002+05:30

Question The correct sizing of internal caches used by IBM WebSphere Portal is critical to the product performance. In order to configure and tune the caches of IBM WebSphere Portal, monitoring of the caches is required under load conditions. How can the internal caches be monitored without installing extra analysis tooling? Answer A selection of the internal caches of IBM WebSphere

JSR286 : Action scope request attribute

2009-10-26T20:31:00.001+05:30

Introduction The core features of any Internet portal are content aggregation from different information sources, web-page personalization and single sign-on. Java portlets act as the building blocks of any J2EE based portal implementation. Java portlets are very similar to Java servlets in many ways. They too are web components, managed by a container, that generate dynamic content.

Adding Log4j Logging to a Portlet

2009-10-23T14:59:00.002+05:30

System.out is used to put one feel that it give any Performance performance. Now change to try and see Log4j may helpSet out how to write well. 1. First, they need to download log4j before here http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/download.html. 2. When we have already loaded the file will be much different to many files for extension. Jar.It is outmostEg. Zip to extract the directory name

Steps to remove a damaged Primary Node and assign a new Primary Node to a Portal Cluster

2009-10-04T00:06:00.000+05:30

What are the steps that can be used to remove a damaged Primary Node from an IBM® WebSphere® Portal cluster and assign another node to the role of Primary Node ? If there is an event that causes issues with the Primary Node in the cluster, such as a failed upgrade, hardware failure, etc, there is a requirement that a Primary Node be identified in the Portal Cluster for maintenance

To install/configure the personalization sample in WPS 6.1

2009-10-04T00:01:00.001+05:30

To install/configure the personalization sample by following these task in WPS 6.1Step 1: ConfigEngine.bat create-pzndemo-users -DPortalAdminPwd=passwordStep 2: ConfigEngine.bat install-pzndemo -DPortalAdminPwd=password -DWasPassword=password

Additional steps needed after updating wps.ear

2009-09-24T00:40:00.001+05:30

Problem After an effort to update the wps.ear to include new configuration for IBM® WebSphere® Portal, the deployment completes successfully, but browsing to the Portal to verify the update results in errors on the page. Symptom You will see content errors on the Portal page in the browser. Errors logged for this issue:[date/time] 0000002e Helpers W NMSV0605W: A Reference object looked up from

How to restore WebSphere Portal back to the out-of-the-box security configuration

2009-09-24T00:38:00.001+05:30

Question Sometimes you may encounter a problem when you configure IBM WebSphere Portal security (standalone or federated). This problem can cause the system configuration files to be in an inconsistent state. Can you revert back to the original file

Use IBM Workplace Web Content Management 6.0

2009-09-23T14:13:00.000+05:30

Use this training path to see the courses you need to take to achieve this skill or certification. Click on the course boxes to access a course description, view its schedule, and enroll. PDF version (103KB) AudienceThis roadmap is

System Administrator Skills for WebSphere Portal V6.1

2009-09-23T14:08:00.001+05:30

Skills for WebSphere Portal V6.1

2009-09-23T12:53:00.000+05:30

Application Development Use this training path to see the courses you need to take to achieve this skill or certification. Click on the course boxes to access a course description, view its schedule, and enroll. PDF version (31KB)

How to Update the Database Administrator Password on Portal 6.0 and 6.1

2009-09-23T02:04:00.000+05:30

Question I have to change the database administrator password. Now how do I update Portal with the new DB password? Answer You can update the database administrator passwords for Portal by changing the datasource, as noted in the Portal

How to configure the portlet for different settings for different users?

2009-09-23T01:51:00.000+05:30

How to configure the portlet for different settings for different users? Need: Need to configure portlet for individual users Solution: If the Portal Administrator sets the Shared Settings for the Rendering Portlets, then later attempts to configure the portlet with the "Configure" option, they will receive this Informational Message:The shared settings of this portlet have been

Support Content Highlight for WebSphere Portal/WCM (September 2009)

2009-09-21T01:20:00.000+05:30

Support Content Highlight for WebSphere Portal/WCM (September 2009) Introduction This document contains links to technical support documents for IBM WebSphere Portal that are frequently requested or identified by IBM as valuable for the time period covered by this notification. This is key information to help you derive the most value from your software licenses, find answers to common

Nested URL opens in new browser window instead of current window

2009-09-16T20:35:00.002+05:30

How do i do : In IBM WebSphere Portal, when creating a new external URL using the Manage Pages administration portlet, it behaves differently depending on which the level used. * Example 1: If you go to Content Root --> Home --> Level 2 URL (mapped to www.ibm.com) and leave Portal administration, when you click the new URL, it opens www.ibm.com in the same window.* Example 2: If you go to Content

How to modify theme so that all URL links open in a new window

2009-09-16T20:22:00.002+05:30

You create a new URL link using the Manage Pages portlet in IBM® WebSphere® Portal version 6.0. When a user clicks on this new URL link, it displays the target page in the same window as opposed to opening a new Web browser window. How can you force it to open a new browser window when clicking the URL link? How do i do In this scenario, the customer was working on a page

Portlet configuration preference layers and portlet modes

2009-09-15T22:45:00.000+05:30

Portlet configuration preference layers and portlet modesType of configuration Description Portlet mode Deployment descriptor preferences They are associated with a deployed portlet, represented by a tag in portlet.xml. They apply to all occurrences of that portlet on all pages for all users. Administrator preferences They are associated with a portlet definition, that is a particular copy

Using WSRP for distributing load

2009-09-06T14:07:00.000+05:30

One of the common gripes that I hear from portal customers is that it’s very expensive to scale portal. This can be true especially if the portlets suffer from ‘bloat’ and carry out more processing than they should. I know of one organisation here in the UK that was seriously considering abandoning WebSphere Portal to return to straightforward servlet development

Apache + Active Directory Authentication How To

2009-09-05T19:55:00.000+05:30

OverviewUse Kerberos integration to fetch valid users and their passwords from the Active Directory to authenticate access to a web directory served by Apache.SystemAD Server: correladsWeb Server: correlprodWeb Service: Apache2 + mod_auth_kerbProtected directory: /var/www/mrtgConfigurationApache + KerberosVerify that mod_auth_kerb is available on the system (/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/). If not

Portal JSR

2009-09-05T19:52:00.000+05:30

Portlet JSRs The Portlet specification will define a Portlet API that provides means for aggregating several content sources and applications front ends. It will also address how the security and personalization is handled. Portlets are web components -like Servlets- specifically designed to be aggregated in the context of a composite page. Usually, many Portlets are invoked to in the

Best Practices – Build and Deployment

2009-09-05T14:44:00.002+05:30

Table of Contents1. Introduction 12. Lessons Learned 13. Web Services Standards Gap 34. Tools Gap 35. Design Constraint Implications 36. Best Practices & Recommendations 46.1 Using open source tools ANT and DPTK 46.1.1 Ant 46.1.2 Design Pattern Toolkit (DPTK) 46.2 Deployable Portal Artifacts 46.3 The Build and Deploy Sequences 76.4 Interaction between the Architecture Layers 127. Conclusion 13 5/

How do you display additional attributes on the Person Card?

2009-09-05T01:29:00.001+05:30

You have configured the People Finder portlet. You then search for a user, and you have the ability to display the Person Card by hovering over the search results. You are able to see the Person Card but want to display additional attributes on the Person

How to combine the results of queries based on two criteria in the Web Content Management local rendering portlet

2009-08-31T01:12:00.001+05:30

When using an IBM® Web Content Management (WCM) local rendering portlet, how can one utilize the combined query results based on two criteria? **Note:** This information is not included in the WebSphere Portal information center topic: Defining menu

Steps to Expand and Collapse content items within Navigator Component

2009-08-31T01:05:00.001+05:30

How can I configure an IBM® Web Content Management (WCM) Navigator component to expand and collapse the content item tree? Edit the Navigator component.Set the following fields:"Start Type" to Selected"Ancestor Level" to All"Descendent Level" to "1 Level" as shown in the diagram.( This setting will display only the Site Areas beneath the selected Site Area ( Environment Program )

Using Log4J from a WebSphere Based Application

2009-08-25T23:31:00.003+05:30

Log4J is an easy to use and powerful logging system. This article will show you how to best configure and use Log4J from a typical WebSphere based application. We will develop a J2EE 1.3 application and test it with WebSphere V5. Initializing Log4J Initializing Log4J has been a thorny problem for a J2EE application. There are two ways to initialize Log4J: Call PropertyConfigurator.configure(

Adding Web 2.0 skins

2009-08-24T22:54:00.001+05:30

In conventional portal skins, a Control.jsp implements the code to render the decoration around a portlet. With the portal Web 2.0 theme, the portal renders the pages on the client. Therefore, rather than invoke a JSP to render the skin, it requires to execute an XSLT transformation. To achieve this, the portlet needs to register the following at bootstrap time in head_extras.jspf : The skin name

Configuring SSO with LTPA

2009-08-24T22:12:00.000+05:30

just wasted a few hours of my life because of some careless mistake made by our computer engineers. I was tasked to configure single sign on for two servers, a Websphere Application Server v6 and a Websphere Portal Server v6. I configured my application server to use the same LDAP configuration as the portal. Export the LTPA key from Websphere Portal and import it to WAS. I thought it will work

Adding Custom Attributes to WebSphere Portal

2009-08-24T21:09:00.001+05:30

Before adding any new attribute, the current attribute configuration should be validated and corrected with proper mappings and removing not required attributes.How to Validate/Verify the Attribute Mapping ?Run ConfigEngine.bat wp-validate-standalone-ldap-attribute-config -DWasPassword=secretAfter successfully completing the above command, review the ConfigTrace.log file from \ConfigEngine\log

Configuring WebSphere Portal 6.1 Security using Sun One LDAP

2009-08-24T21:08:00.002+05:30

Scenario: Sun One LDAP Version 5.2 is installed on the same machine as WebSphere Portal 6.1. To use a custom LDAP schema as I extended the inetOrgPerson object and created a vPerson Object.Once the LDAP Server is installed, I created a suffix called dc=mycompany,dc=com and initialized this suffix. All these steps can be done using Sun One Administration Console.After the LDAP installation, I

WCM custom jsp files can be placed as separate ear/war inWebsphere portal 6.1

2009-08-21T19:46:00.003+05:30

Now we can get rid of copying the wcm custom jsp files of wcm jsp component or custom rich text editor/ custom jsp for element in authoring template into wcm product wars i.e. wcm.ear, local/remote/authoring portlets of the file system.This enhancement is part of WPS 6.1 and for custom jsp of wcm can be deployed as separate j2ee ear application on portal. Deployment and update of jsp now can be

Considerations before Creating database for Websphere Portal

2009-08-21T02:45:00.001+05:30

View some important considerations before setting up Oracle databases to work with WebSphere Portal. For information about creating databases, refer to the Oracle product documentation. For information on the recommended database architecture and the databases you will need to create, see the Planning for Oracle topic. Be sure that all databases to be used with WebSphere Portal are created as

IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English

2009-08-17T01:57:00.000+05:30

In my opinion, IBM Lotus Connections is primarily social networking software, not collaboration software. The social task management bit, however, is all about collaboration. And arguably, collaboration has spontaneously occurred in the blogs bit more than a few times (e.g., a problem with our internal intranet search was fixed because of a blog entry). And ok, the same could be said for forums

Quick hit JVM heap size change

2009-08-17T01:33:00.001+05:30

if you tasked to change the JVM heap size in approximately 2,500 servers today. ## Update the Heap size## ./wsadmin.sh -lang jython -f updateJVM.py#as = AdminConfig.getid('/Cell:YOUR_CELL_NAME/Node:YOUR_NODE_NAME/Server:YOUR_SERVER_NAME/')jvm = AdminConfig.list('JavaVirtualMachine', as)AdminConfig.modify(jvm, [['initialHeapSize', '512'], ['maximumHeapSize', "768"]])AdminConfig.save()# set the

wsadmin rotate jvm log files

2009-08-17T01:31:00.000+05:30

Simple, working, rotates logs at 10mb saving max 5 files.# rotateWasLogEPRN.py# Setup WAS Log file rotations# for yourserver## Implement:# ./wsadmin.sh -lang jython -f $FILE_LOCATION/rotateWasLogEPRN.py >> $TO_LOG_FILE## You can add this as you have other scripts in the deployment script# if you need help please let me know.##print "Changing the SystemOut & SystemErr log file rotation

Apache or IBM HTTP Server access_log rotation script

2009-08-17T01:30:00.003+05:30

We didn't have anything in place until one day, our access_log grew to over 2gig, OUCH :). Anyway, here is a simple cron script you could setup to execute nightly.#The script below creates a numbered copy of the log and then clears it#The date tag at the end of the copied log rotates from 0-6 so we never keep more than 7 days of logs#crontab is setup to run /usr/IHS/webserver*/bin/rotateaccess.sh

Create J2C authentication alias and assign to database

2009-08-17T01:30:00.001+05:30

Here you can create a J2C authentication alias and then assign it to a database.# create a new J2C authentication entry# set the security objectset security_root [$AdminConfig list Security]# set the attributes for the new objectset auth_alias [list alias "$alias"]set auth_descr [list description "Login for 4.0 Application"]set auth_userId [list userId "$username"]set auth_password [list password

Stopping and Starting a Cluster using wsadmin and jython for 5.1

2009-08-17T01:27:00.003+05:30

A simple jython script that accepts two incoming arguments to stop a cluster within a cell. This script is built with global use in mind, meaning you can create multiple shell scripts to pass the arguments to stopCluster.py. This can easily be manipulated to start the cluster too!Let the script begin########################################################### This program may be used, executed,

Restricting authentication based on group membership when configured for standalone LDAP

2009-08-15T17:47:00.001+05:30

How do you configure IBM WebSphere Portal so that only members of a specific group can log in if WebSphere Portal security is configured to use a standalone LDAP? The same general steps will be taken for each supported LDAP although the specific userFilter will differ depending on the LDAP brand and/or version.First, check with your LDAP administrator to confirm that your LDAP implements an

How to restore WebSphere Portal back to the out-of-the-box security configuration

2009-08-15T17:46:00.000+05:30

Allowing multiple login attributes in a non-realm environment

2009-08-15T17:44:00.000+05:30

Question If you enable security with non-realm support, is it possible to allow users to log in with one of several possible attributes? Answer Yes. You must update the userFilter in the LDAP settings in the WebSphere® Application Server administrative console. For example, given the case where administrative users have "uid" but not "cn", and non-administrative users have "cn" but not "

JSR 168 Portlet Specifications

2009-08-12T22:27:00.003+05:30

Agenda• What are JSR and JCP?• What is a Portlet as per JSR 168?• JSR168 SpecificationsPortlet Lifecycle MethodsPortlet ModesPortlet Window StatesPortlet Data ModelsDispatching requestsCaching and Security.• A sample Portlet.What are JSR and JCP?JCP – Java Community ProcessThe international Java community develops and evolves Java™ technology specifications using the Java Community

Some Portal Servers

2009-08-12T22:22:00.000+05:30

List of Portal servers • Liferay - Liferay deploy portlets that adhere to the Portlet API (JSR 168).Its one of the most popular and most talked upon potal server in the recent market. It has lots of portlets bundled with the portal (Mail,Workflow, Document Library, Calendar, Message Boards,Wiki, to name a few) and can be used to develop for adding your own custom portlets.The Ext environment in

Portal and Portlets

2009-08-12T22:21:00.000+05:30

Traditional Web Application• Shortcomings of traditional Web Application• What is needed?• What are Portlets? Portals?....• The New Generation answer …..Traditional Web Application• The “W W W” --The world wide web ,subset of internet is responsible for information sharing.• The Website Approach ---each application is developed separately like a website and deployed singly on a

How to write Alphablox JSR168 Portlet in WebSphere Environment

2009-08-12T02:00:00.000+05:30

WebSphere Portal XMLAccess: discover different ways to refer resources in XML script

2009-08-11T21:13:00.000+05:30

Use Portal 6.0 Advanced URL Generation Helper Class ServletURLGenerator to Generate URL of portlet

2009-08-11T21:11:00.000+05:30

Set correct HTTP response-cache headers to improve response times

2009-08-11T01:14:00.000+05:30

ProblemYou experience slow responses when accessing Lotus® Quickr™ services for WebSphere® Portal on a remote network or over a slow network connection (for example, DSL, Cable Modem). Resolving the problemSetting the proper response-cache headers in the HTTP server configuration allows caching of the static Lotus Quickr resources on the HTTP server and improves response times. To do so, use the

How to install the Information Center help system plug-in into Rational development tools

2009-08-11T00:30:00.000+05:30

Problem(Abstract) Many IBM® products such as WebSphere© Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, IBM Java Runtime Environment, make their Help available on the Internet as an Information Center. These information centers can be downloaded as

Enable GZIP compression on HTTP server to improve response time

2009-08-10T23:06:00.000+05:30

Problem You experience slow responses when accessing Lotus® Quickr™ services for WebSphere® Portal on a remote network or over a slow network connection (for example, DSL, Cable Modem). Resolving the problem Enabling GZIP compression on the HTTP Server serving Lotus Quickr resources reduces the amount of content that has to be downloaded and improves response times. To do so, use

Extending and Customizing WAS Authentication and WPS 51 Login

2009-08-10T23:04:00.003+05:30

SSO! is a three letter word but there is more to it. If you need to bypass portal login in order to control Authentication through a third party customized securtiy framework, the only way to do it is by writing a middleware class called Trust Association Interceptor.When you configure WAS to user LTPA and Trust Association with a customized interceptor. Your WAS becomes partly ready for

Export / Import LTPA-Keys for Single Sign On (SSO)

2009-08-01T21:51:00.000+05:30

Sometimes its necessary to implement an SSO-Enviroment over different WebSphere-Cells (e.g. Production-Cell and Acceptance-Cell). To do this both cells need the same LTPA-Keys.The synchronization of LTPA-Keys can be done over Admin-Console.1. To Export LTPA-Keys from a Cell navigate toSecurity > Secure administration, applications, and infrastructure > Authentication

Startup behavior of an application

2009-08-01T21:50:00.001+05:30

When you need to disable the auto-start option of an application go to "Enterprise Applications > Name of Application > Target specific application status", select Application Server and click "Disable Auto Start".To adjust the startup order go to "Enterprise Applications > Name of Application > Startup behavior" and adjust to Startup order by changing the field-value.Applications with lowest

Reinstall Admin Console (isclite)

2009-08-01T21:48:00.000+05:30

If administrative console is broken or was accidentally uninstalled (happens typically in base-version of WAS), re-deployment (reinstall) of console-application can be done with jython script deployConsole.py located in bin-folder.1. First a clean removal of the old admin-console deployment is nessacary"System-folder"/bin/wsadmin.sh -lang jython -f deployConsole.py remove2. Now reinstall of

Increase performance of applications with servlet caching

2009-08-01T21:47:00.000+05:30

WebSphere Application Server (Version 5,6,6.1) provides the servlet caching option to increase the performance of applications. If servlet caching is enabled, the servlet output will be held in RAM of the physical application server. As an result clients can be served faster. In my tests i noticed a performance increase about 50 percent.So how to enable servlet caching?1. In administrative

Rebuilding an application EAR-File

2009-08-01T21:46:00.001+05:30

Sometimes its nessesary to extract an application and to (re)-build an EAR-File which can be deployed on another Application Server.Tools needed: Eclipse WTP1. Copy the application-folder to your local harddrive2. Start Eclipse WTP and create an new project2.1 Select File > New > Project... > Dynamic Web Project2.2 Enter a project name2.3 Select "Add project to an EAR" and click "New"2.4 Enter a

Copy resource declarations to other cell

2009-08-01T21:42:00.000+05:30

If you setting up an new WAS Node/Cell with a own Deployment Manager configuration (installation) you can easily import the resource declarations (JDBC-Resources,Data Sources) from an already working WAS Installation to the newly created WAS Node/Cell/Profile.Steps:1. Import LTPA-Keys to new Cell2. Copy over /"Profile_Path"/config/cells/"Cell_Name"/resources.xml to the new installation2.1 Ensure

Enable session failover in clusters

2009-08-01T21:41:00.000+05:30

Sometimes its necessary to synchronize the whole session between two (or more) cluster members. Especially when some important attributes are stored in the session (search,...).WebSphere offers an option called "Session Replication" to avoid the lost of a session because of a crashed Cluster Member.First you need to setup a replication domain for the cluster1.1. Go to Enviroment > Replication

Show all JNDI-entries

2009-08-01T21:39:00.000+05:30

Sometimes you need to get all entries in the JNDI-namespace (JNDI=Java Naming and Directory Interface). In order to do this you can use the script dumpNameSpace.sh (.bat).Just execute dumpNameSpace.shThe script is located in the bin-folder of the profile-root./"WebSphere_Profile_Root"/bin/dumpNameSpace.sh(.bat)Its possible to limit the output to a cell or a node. All avaiable parameters can be

Stop and uninstall an application using wsadmin

2009-08-01T21:37:00.001+05:30

Before the application can be unsinstalled it must be stopped.Steps:1. Open wsadmin (with jython)1.1 Go to "WebSphere_Profile_Root"/bin1.2 Executewsadmin.sh(.bat) -lang jython1.3 Enter UserID/Password (if promted)2. Define needed cell and node variables2. Executecell=AdminConfig.list('Cell')cellname=AdminConfig.showAttribute(cell,'name')nodes=AdminConfig.list('Node',cell)nodename=

Install and start an application using wsadmin

2009-08-01T21:36:00.001+05:30

Copy the application ear-file to /installableApps1. Open wsadmin (with jython)1.1 Go to "WebSphere_Profile_Root"/bin1.2 Executewsadmin.sh(.bat) -lang jython1.3 Enter UserID/Password (if promted)2. Define needed cell and node variables2. Executecell=AdminConfig.list('Cell')cellname=AdminConfig.showAttribute(cell,'name')nodes=AdminConfig.list('Node',cell)nodename=AdminConfig.showAttribute(nodes,'

websphere

2009-08-01T21:30:00.001+05:30

Cell:A Cell is a logical group of all nodes and there deployment manager.Node:A node is a group of profiles. Typically one node represents a physical server.However its possible to install/run more than one node on a physical server (through profiles).Node agent:A Node agent is managing a node. The node agent is needed to access the applications.JVM (App server):A JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is a

Liferay and WebSphere SSO (simplistic)

2009-08-01T21:29:00.000+05:30

Since Liferay is providing CAS (Central Authentication Service) support its possible to access Liferay through WebSphere SSO (LTPA tokens) login credentials. So what to do? I can not post all of our source code because of "some security" issues :-) Steps: 1. Edit portel-ext.properties (or portal-impl.jar//portal.properties) 1.1 Add/Edit the CAS configuration lines ## ## CAS ## cas.auth.enabled=

How to compare 2 LDAP-Directories

2009-08-01T18:24:00.001+05:30

The comparison of the LDAP-Directories is a bit harder as it sounds.The biggest problem is the lack of tools to do this research.Finally i found i tool a called ldapcmp. It seems its quite old but it works under Windows XP.How to:1. Download the SUN LDAP C SDK (you need to register) - Platform: Windows 95 4.0 for XP2. Extract the zip file3. Copy the ldapcmp.exe from \tools to \lib4. Execute the

Enable SSL (HTTPs) for IBM HTTP Server

2009-08-01T18:22:00.000+05:30

To enable SSL on a IBM HTTP Server (Client -> IHS), you need to generate a proper certificate first.Steps to generate self-signed-certificate for https traffic:1. Open //bin/ikeyman2. Select CMS as type and specify a file name and a location for the certificate file3. When prompted for a password type in your desired password.4. Click Create > New Self-Signed Certificate in iKeyman. Type in your

Form Login for WebSphere Application Server 6.1

2009-08-01T18:21:00.000+05:30

To enable a form based login (instead of a Basic Authentification) edit the web.xml of the application and add a login configuration: FORMExample Form-Based Authentication Area/login.jsp/error.jsp The login.jsp contains the login form (ibm example): Security FVT Login Page Form Login Enter user ID and password: User ID Password

Enable g-zip for IBM HTTP Server

2009-08-01T18:20:00.000+05:30

In order to deflate the content served form a IBM HTTP Server (IHS) it is possible to enable the g-zip-option in httpd.conf to compress the traffic between a client and a IHS.To enable g-zip add this lines at the bottom of httpd.conf:# compress everything but imagesLoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.soDeflateFilterNote Input instreamDeflateFilterNote Output outstreamDeflateFilterNote

Set HTTP Response Header Cache-Control and enable mod_cache for higher performance

2009-08-01T18:18:00.000+05:30

To enable the ability of caching of pictures open the httpd.conf of your IBM HTTP Server and add following linesLoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.soHeader add Cache-Control "public, max-age=432000, post-check=172000"These lines enable the module mod_headers.so and are setting a Cache-Control header. A Cache-Control header enables clients, webservers and proxys to cache pictures.Adding

WebSphere Portal XMLAccess: discover different ways to refer resources in XML script

2009-08-01T13:22:00.000+05:30

One of the important topics in XMLAccess is how to refer existing resources in portal. In most cases, three kinds of concepts are used, they are ObjectID, Symbolic object ID, and unique name. Here I make a comparison between them. Comparison between ObjectID, Symbolic object ID, and unique name Object ID ID generating mode Object Id (Symbolic object ID) Unique name Used to

Achieving optimal Authoring performance in v6 of Web Content Management

2009-07-27T21:30:00.000+05:30

How can you achieve optimal performance for Authoring in Web Content Management version 6? If you do not tune the system, users can experience slow Authoring performance, which can slow down the content creation process. Performance degradation can manifest itself during save or delete operations, during UI navigation, and during other key Web Content Management functions. CauseAs with any

Alternatives for fixing unchecked redirect vulnerabilities

2009-07-25T16:27:00.000+05:30

Unchecked redirect vulnerabilities are annoying to fix for our customers. Sometimes the developers need to link to a constantly changing selection of partners and they always have to support different redirect URLs for testing, integration, and production. Sometimes these redirect mechanisms span different applications even though they live on the same domain, too. Given the unstable nature of

Single Sign-On fails with SiteMinder due to incorrect agent group settings

2009-07-25T16:21:00.000+05:30

Problem(Abstract)After configuring eTrust SiteMinder for WebSphere Portal, you still get prompted for the portal server login after authenticating via the SiteMinder login feature.CauseTAI not added to agent group in SiteMinderResolving the problemCheck the Agent Groups section via the SiteMinder Administration Console. Agent groups can be specified which allow you to add multiple TAIs into one

Window useful commands

2009-07-25T16:16:00.000+05:30

* && - Command Chaining * %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\rcimlby.exe -LaunchRA - Remote Assistance (Windows XP) * appwiz.cpl - Programs and Features (Formerly Known as "Add or Remove Programs") * appwiz.cpl @,2 - Turn Windows Features On and Off (Add/Remove Windows Components pane) * arp - Displays and modifies the IP-to-Physical address translation tables used by address resolution protocol (

How to use the WCM API to retrieve content element information such as image component file size

2009-07-25T02:50:00.001+05:30

QuestionYou would like to use the IBM® Web Content Management (WCM) API to access a content item's element and retrieve information. How can you retrieve the size of an image file stored in an image component? AnswerThe WCM API provides methods which allow access to a content item's elements, such as an image component.Summary: How to access a content's element.In this example, we retrieve the

Best Practice: Catching and re-throwing Java Exceptions

2009-07-24T22:18:00.001+05:30

QuestionWhat is the correct Java™ programming best practice to catch, print, and re-throw Java exceptions? CauseProblem determination is often hampered by mysterious errors, misleading information, or missing stack traces. AnswerIt is a well-known best practice that a Java application should not suppress caught exceptions with blank catch blocks; however, there are more subtle mistakes that Java

The Portal Scripting Interface

2009-07-22T01:20:00.000+05:30

One of the great advantages of the WebSphere software platform is that it's been built with a great deal of flexibility. A product simply wouldn't bear the WebSphere name if there weren't several different ways to do things. WebSphere Portal Server is no exception. With the release of version 5.1 IBM has added another way to administer the configuration of the Portal. This is sure to delight the

How to troubleshoot :Users do not have access to syndicated content

2009-07-21T22:26:00.002+05:30

Problem:After syndicating between two or more Web Content Management (WCM) instances, on the subscriber instance users do not have access to the newly syndicated content. In the security section of the content items, the users appear to have been given access; however, the content is still not accessible to these users in the new environment. In some cases you may no longer see the Author/Owner

Single SignOn from the operating system desktop to WebSphere Portal

2009-07-20T22:31:00.002+05:30

How To: A browser can automatically authenticate a user against the WebSphere Portal, based on the login to the operating system desktop. This feature is sometimes requested by customers for employee portals. Solution Warning: Some of the configurations described here are not officially supported. For details, see the Hint and Tip document 1104689: "Basic authentication is not supported as a

How to assign a new portal administration group aside from wpsadmins

2009-07-19T22:03:00.000+05:30

For a client who is using a single LDAP repository for both Staging and Production. However, they wanted a separate portal admin group for Staging and Production. For production environment, wpsadmins is sufficient but for staging, aside from wpsadmins, they wanted to add a new group meant for the staging administrators. Staging administrators can only access staging server and shouldn't access

How to fix Portal Access Control settings after user/group external identifiers have changed

2009-07-19T13:59:00.001+05:30

The access controls on resources in IBM WebSphere Portal are linked to external identifiers associated with each user/group stored in LDAP. The requirements for such an external identifier includes that it be static and unique.However, in certain scenarios in which an LDAP server is changed or users or groups are removed and re-added directly to the LDAP, the external identifiers are no longer