Benefits to Resident:  The resident will experience new skill and knowledge 
development by researching, implementing, configuring, testing and verifying
 those the operational aspects and issues of how best to run a WebSphere Por
tal system.  This residency
will enable the resident to enhance their skills to service and support WebS
phere Portal in an emerging market. Upon the resident's return to his or her
 respective work location, the resident can immediately apply their skills i
n helping to demonstrate t
he best practices for WebSphere Portal deployment and operations.


This residency begins 26 Jul 2004, ends 27 Aug 2004 (4 weeks), and requires 
5 residents. The residency is running in Raleigh NC.

Nominations should be submitted online on the Web by 25 Jun 2004.

The residency leader is Rufus Credle whose email address is rpcredl@us.ibm.c
om.

Note:  ITSO pays authorized travel and living expenses for all residents, bu
t does not compensate for the time or services of its residents.  For IBMers
, ITSO residency travel is pre-approved.



Description:  A full Redbook covering best practices for deployment and oper
ational support of WebSphere Portal v5.x in a production environment. We wil
l answer questions on how to initially deploy Portal. And once it has been d
eployed, we will discuss th
e operational best practices for theme/skin, page, and portlet updates in a 
24/7 enterprise.

This Redbook will also cover:
- Ideal backup strategies for ensuring proper backup and restore
- Best practices for maintenance activity
- Failover and scaling strategies and scenarios
- Performance planning (users per server, what kind of environment should sm
all/med/large companies expect to need, etc)
- Staging environments (the use of development, test, and production environ
ments, and promote things between them)
- Detailed and clear descriptions of all the various log files and trace set
tings that administrators should be aware for troubleshooting, and when to u
se which trace settings, which log files, etc
- Discuss content management strategies and reference other redbooks on this
 topic
- Search across portal and content data on demand
- Some discussion on security and reference the security Redbook

Objectives:  To create an IBM Redbook that covers the best practices for Web
Sphere Portal v5.x deployment and operations.



To submit a nomination, you must use the online web nomination form:

Customers and business partners can go directly to this announcement and its
 online nomination form using this link:
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Res...403-R0
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IBMers with access to the IBM Intranet can go directly to this announcement 
and its online nomination form using this link:
http://w3.itso.ibm.com/itsoapps/Res...403-R0
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All residency information is available by clicking Residencies on the IBM Redbooks Internet site a
t http://ibm.com/redbooks.  Employees of IBM will prefer using the IBM Intranet site [u
rl]http://w3.itso.ibm.com.[/url]  The websites fully describe the residency proce
ss and offer online nomination forms.

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