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Oracle WebCenter Portal 11g: Spaces Administration

Course Description:

In this 3 day course, participants get an overview of the components and architecture of Oracle Web Center Portal: Spaces 11g. They learn how to install and configure Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces, Oracle WebCenter Content, configure the Spaces domain, and how to start and stop components. They also learn how to use Oracle Fusion Middleware administration tools to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces. This course covers all the basic administrative tasks a Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces Administrator needs to know to manage the product successfully.

Participants learn how to manage users, roles, and security and how to configure Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces to use an external LDAP store. They gain skills on how to manage Spaces and Home Spaces and the different types of pages that exist in Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces. They learn how to integrate Services, external applications and portlets to give the users a richer experience. They also get to customize the look and feel of the product to meet their company guidelines.

LEARN TO

  • Install and configure Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces
  • Manage users, roles, and security
  • Manage Spaces, Home Spaces, and pages
  • Customize Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces
  • Integrate external applications and portlets
  • Monitor and troubleshoot Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces

AUDIENCE

  • Administrator
  • Web Administrator
  • Technical Consultant
  • Technical Administrator

COURSE TOPICS

WebCenter Portal: Spaces Architecture

  • Identifying the major components of a Webcenter Portal: Spaces implementation and describe the purpose of each
  • Describing the tasks typically done by the WebCenter Portal: Spaces administrator
  • Describing when an administrator would use each of the administrative tools to manage their WC Spaces implementation

Installing and Configuring WebCenter Portal: Spaces

  • Listing the products that must be installed before starting your WebCenter Portal: Spaces installation
  • Listing the tasks required to install and configure Spaces
  • Creating necessary schemas using Repository Creation Utility
  • Installing and configuring WebCenter Portal: Spaces

Configuring Users and Security

  • Describing the major components of WebCenter Portal: Spaces security
  • Managing users and groups in an LDAP server
  • Setting up security for a user's Home Space
  • Setting up security for Spaces

Configuring WebCenter Portal: Spaces and WebCenter Portal: Services

  • Configuring WebCenter Portal: Spaces for the Discussions Service
  • Configuring WebCenter Portal: Spaces for the Documents Service

Managing Pages

  • Identifying the different system pages
  • Setting Home Space page defaults
  • Granting User and Role access to a page
  • Creating and deploying a Business Role page
  • Identifying the default Public pages
  • Enabling and disabling Public access functionality

Customizing WebCenter Portal: Spaces

  • Customizing the look and feel of Spaces
  • Customizing On-Line Help
  • Customizing the Login Page
  • Listing the ways Developers can extend WebCenter Portal: Spaces Content
  • Deploying a customized WebCenter Portal: Spaces application

Configuring External Applications and Portlet Producers

  • Registering an external application
  • Adding an external application to a page
  • Registering a portlet producer

Managing Spaces

  • Identifying the WebCenter Portal Administration and Space pages for managing a Space security
  • Identifying the permission blocks that govern a Space security
  • Describing the functionality of the permissions in the Space-related permission blocks
  • Taking a Space offline
  • Closing a Space
  • Exporting and Importing a Space

Monitoring WebCenter Portal: Spaces

  • Listing the tools you can use to monitor WebCenter Portal: Spaces
  • Viewing performance metrics using Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control
  • Displaying monitoring information using WebLogic Server Administration Console
  • Displaying monitoring information using Fusion Middleware Control
  • Listing some common techniques for troubleshooting WebCenter Portal: Services

Configuring WebCenter Portal: Spaces and Services to Use an External LDAP Store

  • Configuring WebCenter Portal: Spaces to use Oracle Internet Directory (OID) as its Identity store
  • Configuring WebCenter Portal: Spaces to use Oracle Unified Directory (OUD)
  • Configuring the Documents Service and Discussion Service to use External LDAP

COURSE OBJECTIVES

  • Monitor WebCenter Portal: Spaces
  • Configure Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces to use Oracle Unified Directory as its Identity store
  • Configure the Documents and Discussions Services to use External LDAP and Embedded LDAP
  • Install and configure Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces
  • Set up security for Spaces
  • Configure the Discussions Service and Documents Service for WebCenter Portal: Spaces
  • Customize the look and feel of Oracle WebCenter Portal: Spaces
  • Manage different types of pages
  • Register an external application
  • Register a portlet producer
  • Manage Spaces and Home Spaces
  • View performance metrics using Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control
  • Troubleshoot WebCenter Portal: Spaces

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