Portal scripting interface that enhances the
possibilities for automated solution deployment and administration of the
portal. The Portal Scripting Interface allows you to create scripts that portal
administrators can use to perform administrative tasks from a command line.
The Portal Scripting Interface allows portal solution
development teams to write scripts that are later executed by operation teams
for solution deployment. These scripts have the same functionality as the
portal administration user interface. This allows you to implement automated
configuration management for various kinds of configuration changes.
Scripts can help you split the administrative
workload between solution development and solution operation teams. Even if the
solution development teams cannot work interactively with the productions
system, they can apply the same administrative actions through the use of
scripts. At the same time, the use of scripts enhances availability and quality
of the solution as developers can write and test the scripts without
interfering with the production system. Scripts provide repeatability and avoid
user errors that are likely in manual administration procedures.
Advantage
of Portal scripting over XML access
- Different development teams can work on related portal updates
without interfering with each other's work.
- Different administrative teams can perform the tasks of developing
a solution, and deploying and operating that solution for production.
These teams can be within the same organization (for example in the same
enterprise), or in independent companies, such as independent solution
centers for the operation. In a typical scenario, the solution development
team may have in-depth knowledge about the software solution internals,
the operation is focused on the external characteristics of the solution.
The operation solution team can receive the solution from the development
team as a black box that can be operated without much knowledge of the
solution internals. This allows enterprises to use automated solution
deployment and distributed staging processes.
In this regard the portal scripting interface goes
beyond the XML configuration interface that has been provided by WebSphere
Portal for several releases now. The XML configuration interface does not allow
for easy separation of distributed portal administration.
You can use the portal scripting interface for
staging and integration of new releases A new release can be developed and
tested on a test system and can then be integrated into the production system
while the system is running.
Interactive portal administrative tasks do not
require a Web browser.
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