March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
808 pages
17h 10m
English
book
IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5 Handbook
by Rufus Credle, Faheem Altaf, Serena Chan, Fernanda Gomes, Sunil Hiranniah, Pralhad Khatri, Shun Zhong Li, Vikrant Mastoli
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Chapter 8. WebSphere Portal: Sun Solaris 8.0 installation 451
8.9.1 Configuring WebSphere Portal for Oracle
During the installation of WebSphere Portal, the default database Cloudscape is
installed. This database, by default, stores the information needed by
WebSphere Portal. But, in general, this database is for testing and development,
not for the runtime environment. So, in order to build a runtime environment or a
cluster environment, you must transfer this database to another relational
database. In our scenarios, we used Oracle.
The database transfer could be divided into the following steps:
1. Check whether WebSphere Portal is actually using Cloudscape (optional)
2. Export the configuration information
3. Change the configuration setup ...