32.2. Creating a Portal server connection

You will need to create a server connection to be used by the Portal configuration to import, export and deploy functions.

Note

Although a connection is required when invoking the import wizard, the connection can also be created as part of the import wizard process.

As illustrated in Figure 32-1, a WebSphere Portal server with host name wps51 is used on a second machine. Therefore, the current machine where Rational Application Development V6 is running must have network access to this server machine.

For example, execute the following steps to gain access to the Portal server:

1.
For this scenario, a Map Network Drive connecting to the WebSphere Portal Server V5.1 machine is created. This connection ...

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