Preparing the primary node on Linux

Before creating your clustered environment, you must install IBM® WebSphere® Portal on your primary node and then configure your database and your network deployment manager.

Prerequisites
Preparing your Linux operating system in a clustered environment

About this task

Complete the following tasks to prepare your primary node:
  1. Installing WebSphere Portal on Linux on the primary node
    IBM WebSphere Portal is installed as a single component, complete with an integrated database for storing information. After installation, you can expand your environment to include high availability failover, a more robust database, and LDAP-based authentication.
  2. Clustered environment: Performing post-installation tasks on Linux
    Depending on your business needs, there are additional tasks that you can run post-installation to configure your clustered environment.
  3. Linux clustered server: Configuring your portal to use a database
    For high availability, using a remote database is preferred. For improved performance databases can be distributed across multiple database servers. Databases should also be configured for failover. Configuring the database for failover is beyond the scope of this documentation. Refer to the database product documentation for the most authoritative guidance about setting up databases for fail over.
  4. Removing search collections on Linux
    If you plan to use search in a cluster, you must configure a remote search server; see Configuring Portal Search in a cluster for information. If you created any search collections, you must re-create them on the remote search server. If your search collection has data, export the collection before deleting it and then import the data on the remote server.
  5. Creating the WebSphere Portal profile template on Linux in a clustered environment
    After installing the primary node and configuring your remote database, you can create the configuration archive (CAR) file that you can use to create additional IBM WebSphere Portal profiles.
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