Commerce Enabled Portal Site Administrator information roadmap

The Site Administrator installs, configures, and maintains the associated software and hardware necessary to integrate WebSphere Commerce and WebSphere Portal. The Administrator responds to system warnings, alerts, and errors, and diagnoses and resolves system problems. This role typically controls access and authorization (creating and assigning members to the appropriate role), manages the Web site, monitors performance, and manages load balancing tasks. The Site Administrator may also be responsible for establishing and maintaining several server configurations for different stages of development such as testing, staging, and production. This role also handles critical system backups and resolves performance problems.

Note: This information roadmap should be followed in addition to the Site Administrator information roadmap for the base version of WebSphere Commerce. This information roadmap only contains information pertaining to the integration of WebSphere Commerce and WebSphere Portal. The Site Administrator information roadmap should be consulted for all other tasks.

A Commerce Enabled Portal Site Administrator should have the following skills:

Commerce Enabled Portal Site Administrators typically perform these tasks:

Installing
Information about installing and configuring the Commerce Enabled Portal is found in the Commerce Enabled Portal section
Configuring
If you want to use the following advanced features of Commerce Enabled Portal, you must configure them before they are available and will display in the samples.

For information about administering WebSphere Portal, see the WebSphere Portal information center.

Securing
Ensure that SSL is enabled on both WebSphere Commerce and WebSphere Portal machines. For more information, see the WebSphere Portal information center. Note that SSL is not enabled on WebSphere Portal by default.
Troubleshooting
Follow the troubleshooting provided in WebSphere Commerce, and the in the WebSphere Portal information center WebSphere Portal information center

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