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Create an HCL Portal profile

During the installation process, the IBM Installation Manager creates the HCL Portal profile. If you are on HCL Portal Version 8.5 without a Combined Cumulative Fix applied, then you can use this option in the Configuration Wizard to create an additional profile.

Configuration Wizard

On the Configuration Wizard home page, click More Options to find Create an HCL Portal Profile.

Creating a new profile

After you answer questions and provide information about your system, the wizard generates a custom configuration procedure.

Depending on your environment, the wizard generates a configuration process. The following steps reflect all possible steps in the configuration process. The steps do not represent a literal configuration. The steps are provided as a reference.

If you click View Step Command, you can see the task and properties that are associated with each step in the wizard.

  1. Create the target profile for HCL Portal in the WebSphere® Application Server

    Important

    WebSphere Application Server Version 8.5.5.5 requires that fix PI37248 is installed when creating the managed portal profile. This step fails if PI37248 is not installed.

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

  2. Install the ConfigEngine into the target HCL Portal profile

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

  3. Register the HCL Portal components with the ConfigEngine

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      install

  4. Consolidate the properties files for HCL Portal components used in this configuration into a single properties file

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      consolidate-properties

  5. Prepare the profile for basic configuration

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      gather-runtime-property-files

      gather-portalserver-exes

      pre-basic-config

      copy-shared-objects

      enable-oob-security

  6. Validate the database connection and environment

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

  7. Deploy applications into the portal profile

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

  8. Configure the JCR, theme, and core runtime components of your portal server

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

  9. Deploy the administration portlets and pages to the portal

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

  10. Deploy the out-of-box pages and portlets to the portal

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

  11. Remove the application server (server1) from the profile

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

  12. Stop the portal server

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

  13. Collect the deployment manager augmentation files and profile templates that are required to build a cell

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

  14. Restart the HCL Portal server

    • Condition

      none

    • ConfigEngine task

      none

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