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Learn how to clone an installation of IBM WebSphere® Portal version 7.0 that has been configured for specific deployment needs. This white paper is intended for portal administrators who want to build a standardized installation of WebSphere Portal within their organization and use it as a template from which to mass-produce additional pre-installed and pre-configured portals.
- Overall process for using Installation Factory
- Obtaining the prerequisites
- Install the Master Server
- Run Installation Factory
- Installing the Portal CIP
- Troubleshooting
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Resources
- About the author
| Description | Name | Size | Download method |
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| White paper in PDF format | Portal7.0_CloningFinal.pdf | 262 KB | HTTP |
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IBM WebSphere Portal product documentation.
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developerWorks WebSphere Portal zone.
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Apache Ant scripting environment.
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For more details on using the Install Factory, refer to the WebSphere Portal 7.0 Information Center topic, "How to use Install Factory to build a WebSphere Application Server custom install package."
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To learn how to connect to an exiting copy of a database, refer to the WebSphere Portal 7.0 Information Center topic, "Connecting to existing database domains."
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To learn how to use the transfer-database configuration task to copy the database content
from the original database to an empty new one, refer to the WebSphere Portal wiki article,
“Configuring Portal to use DB2."
