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:
- Database administration skills
- Web Server administration skills
- WebSphere Application Server administration skills
- Basic XML skills
- General familiarity with WebSphere Commerce equivalent to the information contained in the category Understanding.
- General familiarity with WebSphere Portal.
- Basic knowledge of operating system commands and SQL commands
- Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) architecture knowledge
- LDAP server administration skills
- (Optional) General familiarity of Everyplace Wireless Gateway if you are using wireless options
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.
- MyPortalAlert portlets
- SMS message transmission
- Synchronizing content through dynamic context
- Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) support
For more information, see Enabling the Commerce Enabled Portal advanced features. - Deploying
- The Site Administrator is responsible for publishing (deploying) the Commerce Enabled Portals and any customized code to the WebSphere Commerce Server and WebSphere Portal. For more information, see Deploying Commerce Enabled Portal.
- Administering
- The two main tools used to administer a WebSphere Commerce site are the Administration Console and the Organization Administration Console.
- Use the Administration Console to:
- Use the Organization Administration Console to:
- Create users for a Commerce Enabled Portal store before setting up users refer to the information in the Roles topic.
- Enable dynamic caching. For more information about caching, see Caching in Commerce Enabled Portal.
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