How to Guide access the WebSphere Portal Prospero demo on Amazon EC2

1. Beginners Guide to
Starting the Propsero
demonstration on EC2
Chris Sparshott
IBM Technical Sales
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2. Assumes that you already have
registered to Amazon and have
access to your x.509 certificate
and Private key.
If you have registered but lost
your private I have included
instructions on how to re-create.

3. Purchase Portal / WCM AMI
- There is no charge but you
need to go through the process.
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/c
=2048

7. Log on
or sign-up to
Amazon EC2

10. Ask someone with the Propsero
snap shot to share it with you.
You will need to supply your EC2
account details to your colleague
for them to do this.
e.g. 1998-2426-xxxx

12. Access Prospero Snapshot
and Create EBS Volume

19. Take note of the time zone, it has to be
the same as the AMI (will be clear later)

23. Launch AMI

31. Zone us-east-1a
(Same as EBS volume)

40. Create new x509 cert

59. What is the Host name?

67. Add Private Key creation

86. Attach EBS Volume – must have
been created in the same time
zone as the Instance. E.g. East
1a
http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/

95. Start WebSphere Portal
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websp

96. Start WebSphere Portal server

97. Wait

98. Wait for “Open for e-business”

99. Start HTTP Server

100. Ensure http over tcp, required ports from
0.0.0.0/0 is added to Security Group

101. Connection URLs
• WebSphere Portal home page (if HTTP Server
is stopped):
• http://<public host name>:10040/wps/portal
• WebSphere Portal home page (if HTTP Server
is active):
• http://<public host name>/wps/portal
• WebSphere Application Server admin console:
• http://<public host name>:10027/ibm/console

106. Play
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