Administering IBM Web Content Manager 8.0

Unit 1: Overview of WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager

• Introduction to Web Content Manager terminology and concepts
• Architecture: Overview of the stack
• Architecture: How WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager work together
• Explanation of WebSphere Portal capability as compared to Web Content Manager

Unit 2: Overview of IBM Web Content Manager server environments

• Review of various network environments (testing, staging, and production/delivery)
• High availability considerations

Unit 3: Authoring environment

• What is the authoring environment?
• An overview of the "home pages" that are ready for immediate use.
• Site area templates that allow administrators to control the type of items that can be added.
• Using the out-of-the box authoring portlet
• Customizing the authoring environment to improve the author experience
• Comparison of out-of-the box RTE and the Ephox RTE
• Access control and users and groups

Unit 4: Delivery environment

• What is the delivery environment
• Review of considerations for delivery in a clustered topology
• Access control and users and groups

Unit 5: Syndication

• What is syndication?
• Manual and automatic syndication
• What is not handled via syndication?
• Cloning compared to syndication

Unit 6:Cache

• What is cache?
• Cache options for Web Content Manager
• Limitations of options
• Cache best practices

Unit 7: Performance

• Performance considerations
• Hardware, network, disk space, and so on
• Tuning steps
• Database tuning

Unit 8: Maintenance

• Review available tools, when to use them and potential impacts. Tools include:
• MemberFixer
• Workflow update tool
• IBM Support Assistant
• Clear versions (Auditing impact)
• Clear history (Auditing impact)
• Check database disk space to ensure there is enough space
• Logs
• Note errors and act upon them
• Where to find updates: Fix Central
• Where to look for help: Support Portal
• Library export

Unit 9: Backup and Recovery

• Backup and recovery
• Required third party applications (LDAP, Analytics, and so on)

Unit 10: Migration

• Overview of the process - what does the Web Content Manager Administrator need to plan for?
• What is migrated in the base portal migration
• Additional steps for migrating Web Content Manager