Chapter 11. Installing the WebSphere Portal Test Environment version 5.1
The portal test environment allows you to test portal applications from the workbench. Version 5.1 provides new functionality over version 5.0, and is supported on all the Windows environments supported for Rational Application Developer. It is also supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation, Version 3.0.
Note:
WebSphere Application Sever 5.1 is automatically installed with the WebSphere Portal Test Environment version 5.1.
Installing from the CD-ROM
You must have Rational Application Developer installed before you can install the portal test environment. We recommend that you stop Rational Application Developer before you start the portal test environment installation.
To install the WebSphere Portal Test Environment 5.1, follow these steps:
If you have installed any of WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Application Server Integrated Test Environment, or WebSphere Portal integrated test environment, ensure all of them are stopped and ensure you stop any HTTP servers. Otherwise, the installation may fail.
Insert the setup CD of WebSphere Portal 5.1. (The portal test environment cannot be installed from the main Rational Application Developer installation launchpad.)
On Windows systems, the installation program should automatically launch. If it does not, run the install.bat file from the root of the installation CD. On Linux systems, run install.sh from the root of the installation CD.
Select the language you want the installation program run in and click OK to continue
Read the information in the Welcome page of the installation program and click Next.
Accept the license agreement and click Next
Select the Test Environment radio button and click Next.
Note:
Depending on your platform, you may receive an error message indicating the operating system prerequisite check failed. This happens because some operating systems (for example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Version 3.0) are only supported in the portal test environment. You can safely ignore this message -- click OK to continue with the installation.
Accept the default installation directory for WebSphere Application Server V5.1, or browse to select a new one, and click Next. The default installation directory is C:\Program Files\Portal51UTE\AppServer for Windows and opt/Portal51UTE/AppServer for Linux. Unless you do not have enough space, the default installation directory is recommended.
Accept the default installation directory for the Portal Test Environment, or browse to select a new one, and click Next. The default installation directory is C:\Program Files\Portal51UTE\PortalServer for Windows and opt/Portal51UTE/PortalServer for Linux. Unless you do not have enough space, the default installation directory is recommended.
Specify the user ID and password that you want to use with the Portal Test Environment. Click Next.
Review the information in the summary screen and click Next
When you are prompted to, insert the appropriate WebSphere Portal 5.1 CD and specify its drive location.
When the installation is finished, click Finish to close the installation program.
Notes:
Virtual memory/swap space for Linux: When you install WebSphere Portal Test Environment version 5.1 to Linux, you should have 3 GB of swap space available. Insufficient swap space can cause lengthy installation times.
Disabling contents management and personalization: It will take about two hours to install WebSphere Portal Test Environment version 5.1 to a medium class of desktop machine (Pentium 4 and 2GHz CPU). If you don't need to use contents management and personalization for WebSphere Portal Test Environment version 5.1, you can disable to install these components by using following option for install.bat (WebSphere Portal version 5.1 install program) . This will shorten the installation time.
install.bat -W wpcpInstallSequence.active=false -W config.arguments=-DskipCM=true
install.sh -W wpcpInstallSequence.active=false -W config.arguments=-DskipCM=true
Refer to the online help file "Configuring the WebSphere Portal Test Environment V5.1" for information about configuring Portal Test Environment 5.1 to work with Rational Application Developer.
Installing from electronic images
To facilitate the installation of software, create the appropriate directory, and then download and extract the contents of each file into that directory.
Note:
You must download, extract, and run the images on the same platform that the image supports. For example, if the title of an image lists only Windows, you can download, extract, and run that image on a Windows system only.
The following CD images are required for WebSphere Portal Test Environment version 5.1:
cdSetup, cd1-1, cd1-2, cd1-15, cd2, cd3.
cdSetup, cd1-3, cd1-4, cd1-16, cd2, cd3.
Perform the following steps to create the appropriate directories and download the files:
Create a directory for each image that you will download .
Create new directories within a common directory on the same machine, and name the new directories according to the corresponding disc identifier that is provided in the title, preceded by the characters cd. For example, cdSetup, cd1-1, cd1-2, and so on.
Windows example: Create a common directory (for example, Portal_images) and create the following directories within the common directory: cdSetup, cd1-1, cd1-2, cd1-15, cd2, cd3.
Linux example: Create a common directory (for example, Portal_images) and create the following directories within the common directory: cdSetup, cd1-3, cd1-4, cd1-16, cd2, cd3.
Download each image and extract the contents.
Download each image into its own directory. The steps shown below provide instructions on how to download and extract a specific image. These steps use the following image as an example:
WebSphere Portal V5.1 - Setup Manager for Windows and Linux (Setup) for Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, International English, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
File Name C7003ML.zip
To download and extract the contents of this image, perform the following steps:
Create a directory named cdSetup.
Download C7003ML.zip into the cdSetup directory.
Extract the files from C50JMML.zip into the cdSetup directory.
When you are ready to install the extracted images, refer to the "Installing from the CD-ROM" section above.
Using DB2 or Oracle database as the WebSphere Portal configuration repository
By default, WebSphere Portal V5.1 Test Environment installs and uses the Cloudscape database to store information about user identities, credentials, and permissions for accessing portal resources. Cloudscape is a WebSphere Portal built-in Java database that is well suited to basic portal environments.
To install and configure a DB2 or Oracle database, please refer to the WebSphere Portal V5.1 InfoCenter at [url]www.ibm.com/websphere/portal/library[/url]. You can find the instructions in the WebSphere Portal version 5.1 InfoCenter under Configuring > Database. Note that when referring to the configuration instructions in the InfoCenter, <wp_root> in the InfoCenter corresponds to the installation directory of the WebSphere Portal 5.1 Test Environment, and <was_root> in the InfoCenter corresponds to the installation directory of WebSphere Application Server V5.1 (see above for the default locations). Also, to verify the database connection, you will create the WebSphere Portal 5.1 Test Environment and start the server, instead of following the steps in the InfoCenter.
Configuring the WebSphere Portal Test Environment version 5.1
You need to configure Portal Test Environment 5.1 to work with Rational Application Developer as follows:
Start Rational Application Developer.
From the menu bar, select Window > Preferences > Server > Installed Runtimes. The Installed Server Runtime Environments page appears.
Select WebSphere Portal v5.1 stub and select Edit. The Edit Server Runtime page appears.
Change the name to WebSphere Portal v5.1 and specify the WebSphere Portal Location and WebSphere Application Server Location. (For example, C:\Program Files\Portal51UTE\PortalServer and C:\Program Files\Portal51UTE\AppServer respectively).
Click Finish and click OK.
Uninstalling the V5.1 portal test environment
To uninstall the portal test environment, follow these steps:
Go to the directory where you have installed the portal test environment.
Go to the PortalServer\uninstall subdirectory and run the uninstall application.
Follow the on-screen instructions.
In some cases, such as an aborted installation, the uninstaller might not be completed and functional. In these cases, you will need to complete the uninstallation manually. Refer to the WebSphere Portal V5.1 InfoCenter for details on manually uninstalling WebSphere Portal Test Environment version 5.1.
