Welcome to the product documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Find information about how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend solutions.
Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain and use Version 9.0 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
HCL Digital Experience provides flexible deployment options that range from proof-of-concept where you can examine and test functionality to a highly available and scalable production environment. Review the planning information to learn more about hardware and software requirements, high availability, scalability, supported topologies, and much more. Select your operating system and then select the installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.
Review the roadmaps to understand the common deployment, configuration, migration, and integration patterns.
The HCL Digital Experience installation and deployment roadmaps provide high-level instructions for setting up a stand-alone or clustered V9.0 environment.
Multiple clusters and portal farms are advanced configurations.
Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain and use Version 8.5 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences per user.
Migration is supported between equivalent offerings. Starting with CF17, additional migration options are supported for HCL Portal server and HCL Web Content Manager offerings.
New and existing users need to sign up or register at HCL Software and download their HCL Digital Experience package.
Before you install HCL Digital Experience in a production environment, you need to assess your hardware and software needs, possible database configurations, security options, and LDAP server options. Skipping this important step can lead to unexpected results and costly delays.
A stand-alone server topology is useful for many environments. While the underlying topology is similar for many environments, the configuration steps to achieve a desired environment varies.
A container-based deployment offers the capability to place them on different physical or virtual machines, on premises or in the cloud. This flexibility allows more control in terms of workload management, as an example.
Clusters topologies provide greater availability and capacity.
Add an HCL Portal cluster to an existing cluster.
The term "farm" refers to a series of identically configured, stand-alone server instances. The stand-alone servers allow the farm to be increased or decreased without having to worry about complex cluster configurations or inter-server awareness. Server farms offer a simple way to build and maintain a highly scalable, highly available server environment.
A web content server is ideal to create presentation templates, content components, and other presentation elements of your website. In this roadmap, the web server, database, and user registry software are distributed to different physical servers.
Portal maintenance is delivered through two mechanisms: individual fixes (iFixes) and combined cumulative fixes. iFixes are provided, when necessary, for severe or security-related bugs. Combined cumulative fixes are delivered on a regular schedule. They provide a mechanism to deliver fixes faster, improve existing features, deliver new features, update documentation, and provide new documentation on a frequent basis. To deliver continuous improvements for your digital experience software, it is recommended that you apply the latest Combined Cumulative Fix to your environment.
Choose the appropriate migration roadmap for your environment.
Choose the appropriate integration roadmaps for your environment.
Syndication is the tool that is used to replicate data from a web content library on one server to a web content library on another server. The relationship between a syndicator and a subscriber can be either a one-way or two-way relationship.
Review the roadmaps to understand how to create your website.
Before you install the digital experience software, make sure that the prerequisite software is installed and configured. Depending on your environment, you might already have the prerequisites, such as a database server and user registry. Verify that the prerequisite software is the correct version, has the required fix packs applied, and is configured to work with the digital experience software.
HCL Digital Experience is designed to help create, manage, simplify, and integrate your processes into an engaging online experience. HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager are a part of the HCL Digital Experience.
If you are installing HCL Digital Experience Version 9.0, migrate your IBM WebSphere Application Server to Version 9.0.
Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
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