WebSphere Portal integration prerequisites for the WebSphere Portal machine

Software

You must have preinstalled the following software:

• WebSphere Portal version 6.1.0.x and 6.1.5.x.
• It is recommended that the WebSphere Portal server runs on the WebSphere Application Server runtime installed by Rational Application Developer 7.5.4 or later.
• WebSphere Application Server 7.0.0.5 or later.
  Note: Using WebSphere Portal 6.1 with other versions of WebSphere Application Server is not a supported configuration. If your Portal 6.1 configuration already exists, with WebSphere Application Server 6.1, contact your administrator for information regarding migrating to WebSphere Application Server 7.
• Rational Application Developer version 7.5.4 or later must be installed to develop and test WebSphere Portal with WebSphere Commerce 7.0.
  • When installing Rational Application Developer version 7.5.4 or later you must follow the custom installation path and select to use a preinstalled WebSphere Application Server, or install the WebSphere Application Server that is packaged with Rational Application Developer.
  • You must select to install WebSphere Portal tools and WebSphere Application Server version 7.0.0.5 or later when installing Rational Application Developer.
• You have installed the WebSphere Portal V6.1 test server into your Rational Application Developer v7.5 environment.

Prerequisite tasks

Ensure that the system meets the following requirements:

• Ensure the IP addresses of the WebSphere Commerce Server and WebSphere Portal Server are registered in a DNS server, and that they can access each other by hostname.
• The system clocks of the WebSphere Portal machine and the WebSphere Commerce machine should be synchronized.
• Enabling WebSphere Portal security with a LDAP user registry.