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  2. HCL Digital Experience Product Documentation

    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.

  3. HCL Digital Experience 9.0

    Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain and use Version 9.0 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.

  4. Installing

    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.

  5. Roadmaps to deploy your system

    Review the roadmaps to understand the common deployment, configuration, migration, and integration patterns.

  6. Roadmaps for Version 9.0 installation and deployment

    The HCL Digital Experience installation and deployment roadmaps provide high-level instructions for setting up a stand-alone or clustered V9.0 environment.

  7. Roadmaps for clusters

    Clusters topologies provide greater availability and capacity.

  • HCL Digital Experience Product Documentation

    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.

    • HCL Digital Experience 8.5

      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 9.0

      Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain and use Version 9.0 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.

      • Overview

        HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences per user.

      • Supported migration paths

        Migration is supported between equivalent offerings. Starting with CF17, additional migration options are supported for HCL Portal server and HCL Web Content Manager offerings.

      • Getting the software

        New and existing users need to sign up or register at HCL Software and download their HCL Digital Experience package.

      • Installing

        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.

        • Planning to install HCL Digital Experience

          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.

        • Roadmaps to deploy your system

          Review the roadmaps to understand the common deployment, configuration, migration, and integration patterns.

          • Roadmaps for Version 9.0 installation and deployment

            The HCL Digital Experience installation and deployment roadmaps provide high-level instructions for setting up a stand-alone or clustered V9.0 environment.

            • Roadmaps for stand-alone servers

              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.

            • Roadmaps for container-based deployment

              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.

            • Roadmaps for clusters

              Clusters topologies provide greater availability and capacity.

              • Roadmap: Production and delivery environment

                The production environment represents the servers that incoming web traffic accesses to experience your digital experience. It does not have to be a cluster. This environment could multiple clusters, a portal farm, or a stand-alone server, depending on your business needs. However, this roadmap is based on a cluster topology. In a cluster, the portals share a common configuration and the load is distributed evenly across all cluster instances.

            • Roadmaps for advanced configurations

              Multiple clusters and portal farms are advanced configurations.

            • Roadmap: Web content servers

              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.

          • Roadmap: Applying maintenance

            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.

          • Roadmaps for migration

            Choose the appropriate migration roadmap for your environment.

          • Roadmaps for integration

            Choose the appropriate integration roadmaps for your environment.

          • Roadmap: Syndication

            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.

        • Roadmaps to create your website

          Review the roadmaps to understand how to create your website.

        • Installing and preparing the prerequisite software

          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.

        • Installing HCL 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.

      • Migrating to WebSphere Application Server V9.0

        If you are installing HCL Digital Experience Version 9.0, migrate your IBM WebSphere Application Server to Version 9.0.

      • Configuring

        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.

      • Reference

        View information that can help you use, including directory conventions, terms of use, trademarks, a glossary, and more.

    • HCL Digital Experience 9.5

Roadmaps for clusters | HCL Digital Experience

Clusters topologies provide greater availability and capacity.

For the failover environment roadmap for HCL Digital Experience offerings, see Roadmap: Failover environment.

Video: Creating an HCL Digital Experience 9.5 CF196 Cluster

  • Roadmap: Production and delivery environment
    The production environment represents the servers that incoming web traffic accesses to experience your digital experience. It does not have to be a cluster. This environment could multiple clusters, a portal farm, or a stand-alone server, depending on your business needs. However, this roadmap is based on a cluster topology. In a cluster, the portals share a common configuration and the load is distributed evenly across all cluster instances.
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