Installing on IBM i

IBM® WebSphere® Portal Express® provides flexible deployment options ranging from proof-of-concept where you can examine and test functionality to a highly available and scalable production environment.

Select the type of setup you need from the list of options. Follow the scenario to install and configure WebSphere Portal Express.

Setting up a stand-alone production server on IBM i
Set up a stand-alone production environment after you have tested a single server environment and are ready to create a production environment. You can modify this environment to support remote databases and different security options.
Setting up an idle standby cluster on IBM i
Set up your IBM WebSphere Portal Express environment as an idle standby configuration for the purpose of failover. Your idle standby cluster server is not operational to service user transactions or to query workloads. The idle standby cluster server becomes active only if the primary node fails.
Rendering documents on IBM i
In order to enable document preview functionality for IBM Web Content Manager and the Common Mail portlet, you must set up an HTML rendering server to work with WebSphere Portal Express. Because IBM i does not contain native graphics support, you must install additional fonts to perform the document conversion required by these functions. Document conversion enables WebSphere Portal Express to convert documents produced by commonly used office programs into Web pages, so that they can be viewed and searched by users online. The additional fonts include an HTML rendering server known as X virtual frame buffer for the X server.