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.

The following illustrations depict the stand-alone server configuration that results from following the instructions in this scenario.

Illustration of a stand-alone configuration with a remote database, LDAP server, and HTTP server.

After completing the installation, remember to tune the servers in your portal environment in order to achieve better performance. The Base Portal Tuning scenarios in the IBM® WebSphere® Portal Express® and IBM Web Content Manager Performance Tuning Guide provides information about tuning the IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Express services, databases, directory servers and more.

Preparing your IBM i operating system in a stand-alone environment
View information on setting up your operating system for IBM WebSphere Portal Express. Other components might require additional steps; see the product documentation for the specific components you want to install for information.
Installing WebSphere Portal Express on IBM i
IBM WebSphere Portal Express is installed as a single component, complete with an integrated database for storing information. The single component feature allows you to get WebSphere Portal Express up and running quickly for a proof of concept phase where you can immediately begin building and working with it. You can also expand your environment to include idle-standby, a remote database for easier management and better distributed processing load, and LDAP-based authentication.
Stand-alone: Performing post-installation tasks on IBM i
Depending on your business needs, there are additional tasks that you can run post-installation to configure your stand-alone environment.
IBM i stand-alone: Converting the evaluation license
If you initially installed IBM WebSphere Portal Express using the evaluation license and then purchased the product, you can convert the installed evaluation license to a production license. You can do this at any time, before or after the evaluation license expires.
IBM i stand-alone: Preparing DB2 for IBM i
To setup a remote IBM DB2® for i database, create user IDs and databases on a remote server. Tasks are provided to assist with creating the user IDs and the databases. Before you can use the tasks, you must modify properties files.
IBM i stand-alone: Preparing a remote Web server
Install and configure the Web server plug-in, provided by IBM WebSphere Application Server, to set up your Web server to communicate with IBM WebSphere Portal Express.
IBM i stand-alone: Configuring Portal to use a user registry
Configure user registry security on IBM WebSphere Portal Express to protect your server from unauthorized users. You can configure a stand-alone LDAP user registry or you can add LDAP user registries and/or database user registries to the default federated repository. After configuring your user registry, you can add realms for Virtual Portals or a lookaside database to store attributes that cannot be stored in the LDAP user registry.
IBM i stand-alone: Tune your servers
Tuning the servers is important to the performance of your WebSphere Portal environment. WebSphere Portal is not tuned for a production environment out of the box, so to ensure optimal performance, review and complete the steps in the IBM WebSphere Portal Tuning Guide. Even if a tuning guide is not available for the current release of WebSphere Portal, the tuning guide for the previous product version should be used.