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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 9.5

    Welcome to the documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use HCL Digital Experience 9.5.

  4. Digital Experience on non-containerized platforms

    Learn how to deploy HCL Digital Experience as a non-containerized application and optimize web content and applications to deliver differentiated, personalized experiences for your customers.

  5. Installing HCL Digital Experience

    Review the planning information on HCL Digital Experience, then select your operating system and installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.

  6. Roadmaps to deploy your system

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

  7. Roadmaps for installation and deployment

    Installation and deployment roadmaps each include a topology and high-level instructions for setting up a selected development or authoring environment.

  8. 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
    • HCL Digital Experience 9.0
    • HCL Digital Experience 9.5

      Welcome to the documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use HCL Digital Experience 9.5.

      • Overview

        HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints, such as web, mobile, hybrid mobile/web applications, and more.

      • Supported migration paths

        Migration is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.

      • Supported installation and upgrade paths

        Installation and upgrade is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.

      • Getting the software

        New and existing users need to register at the HCL Software License Portal and download their entitled HCL Digital Experience package(s).

      • Creating your website

        Review the following topics to understand how to create your website using the latest HCL Digital Experience.

      • Digital Experience on non-containerized platforms

        Learn how to deploy HCL Digital Experience as a non-containerized application and optimize web content and applications to deliver differentiated, personalized experiences for your customers.

        • Installing HCL Digital Experience

          Review the planning information on HCL Digital Experience, then select your operating system and installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.

          • Planning to install HCL Digital Experience

            Before you install HCL Digital Experience in a production environment, assess your hardware and software needs, possible database configurations, security options, and LDAP server options.

          • Roadmaps to deploy your system

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

            • Roadmaps for installation and deployment

              Installation and deployment roadmaps each include a topology and high-level instructions for setting up a selected development or authoring 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.

              • Roadmap 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.

              • Roadmaps for clusters

                Clusters topologies provide greater availability and capacity.

                • Roadmap: Production and delivery environment

                  The production environment are the servers that incoming web traffic accesses to experience your HCL Digital Experience. This roadmap is based on a cluster topology.

              • Roadmaps for advanced configurations

                Multiple clusters and portal farms are advanced configurations.

              • Roadmap: Web content servers

                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 individual fixes (Fixes) and Combined Cumulative Fixes (CFs), which is recommended to your environment.

            • Roadmaps for migration

              Choose the appropriate migration roadmap for your environment.

          • Migrating to IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0.5

            If you are installing the latest version of HCL Digital Experience, migrate your IBM WebSphere Application Server to 9.0.5.

          • Installing and preparing the prerequisite software

            Before you install HCL Digital Experience, make sure that the prerequisite software is installed, configured, and has the required fix packs applied.

          • Installing the HCL Digital Experience software

            The HCL Digital Experience is designed to help create, manage, simplify, and integrate your processes into an engaging online experience.

        • Combined Cumulative Fix (CF) installation

          The Combined Cumulative Fix is a package of HCL Digital Experience fixes. Read the instructions to learn how to apply or roll back a combined cumulative fix.

        • Backup and restore

          Backup and recovery of data files and databases is an essential operation for any business system, particularly for data and applications that run in production environments. Create and follow a plan for backing up and recovering data on all tiers of your HCL Digital Experience deployment. IBM Installation Manager must also be included in backup and recovery planning. If you back up the HCL Portal file structure and then install a fix pack, your HCL Digital Experience and IBM Installation Manager become out of sync after you restore the HCL Portal file system. This condition is not recoverable.

        • Migrating

          Successful migration requires significant planning and preparation, understanding the tools that are involved, and careful execution of the appropriate steps in the order provided.

        • Content Template Catalog 4.4

          The Content Template (CTC) is a set of templates that accelerate the process of building a website.

      • Digital Experience on containerized platforms

        Learn how to deploy HCL Digital Experience as a cloud-native platform and optimize business-critical digital experiences for your customers.

      • Digital Experience application deployment

        This section outlines features and functionality delivered as part of continuous integration and continuous delivery for HCL Digital Experience.

      • 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.

      • Integrating

        Integrate HCL Digital Experience with software such as HCL Sametime to enable your users to collaborate more easily. You can also use the unified task list portlet to integrate HCL with your backend business process software, such as IBM Process Server.

      • Administering

        Use the administration tools that are provided with the HCL Digital Experience to do various day-to-day administration tasks.

      • Securing

        Security tasks include setting up property extension databases and custom user repositories, configuring and activating SSL, and configuring authentication. In addition, tasks such as activating Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and NIST SP800-131a security modules and configuring external security managers such as Security Access Manager might be required to secure your portal environment.

      • Monitoring

        HCL Portal includes tools and features to help you monitor the portal site.

      • Setting up a website

        Setting up a website includes, creating pages, adding navigation, setting up search, and adding content to the site. Themes are used to customize the portal's look-and-feel. Out-of-the-box templates and the site wizard can help you set up your portal site faster. You can add wikis and blogs to your site and let users tag and rate content on your site.

      • Staging to production

        During portal solution development, the solution is initially developed, tested, and refined on one server or a limited number of servers. The solution is deployed later on live systems, referred to as the production environment. The process of moving the solution from the development environment to the production environment is called staging.

      • Developing

        This section includes developer documentation on extending applications and development assets for HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager.

      • Container-only features

        Learn about features available for your container platform deployments.

      • Practitioner Studio

        Practitioner Studio is a newly designed user experience for HCL Digital Experience. Please see the following pages to understand how the new navigation is organized.

      • The Woodburn Studio demo site

        The Woodburn Studio is a website that demonstrates the use of some of the popular HCL Digital Experience features.

      • Troubleshooting

        This section helps you resolve problems, use diagnostic tools and tracing to capture HCL Digital Experience system errors.

      • Reference

        View information that can help you use our product documentation including terms of use, trademarks, and more.

      • Glossary

        This glossary includes terms and definitions for HCL Digital Experience.

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

  • HCL Digital Experience roadmap: Production and delivery environment
    The production environment are the servers that incoming web traffic accesses to experience your HCL Digital Experience. This roadmap is based on a cluster topology.
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