{"id":507,"date":"2014-01-15T23:49:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T23:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gja.rfl.mybluehost.me\/website_fd74af1b\/installing-webcenter-portal-cluster\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:52:15","slug":"installing-webcenter-portal-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onwardpath.com\/intelligence\/installing-webcenter-portal-cluster\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing WebCenter Portal Cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post describes the high level installation steps for installing Oracle WebCenter Portal and Content in a Clustered architecture to achieve High Availability. Host A and Host B are the two machines (nodes) to be included in the cluster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Run the WebCenter Portal Repository Creation Utility (RCU)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Install the following software on both Host A and Host B<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JDK (Sun or JRockit)<\/li>\n<li>WebLogic Server (10.3.6)<\/li>\n<li>Oracle WebCenter Portal (11.1.1.8)<\/li>\n<li>Oracle WebCenter Content (11.1.1.8)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3. Configure Domain on Host A<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>\/&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME&gt;\/oracle_common\/common\/bin\/config.sh<\/pre>\n<p>Define Cluster, Machine and Managed Servers as follows:<\/p>\n<table width=\"65%\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Cluster<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Machine<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Managed Server<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spaces_Cluster<\/td>\n<td>Host A<\/td>\n<td>WC_Spaces1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spaces_Cluster<\/td>\n<td>Host B<\/td>\n<td>WC_Spaces2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Content_Cluster<\/td>\n<td>Host A<\/td>\n<td>UCM_server1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Content_Cluster<\/td>\n<td>Host B<\/td>\n<td>UCM_server2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Portlet_Cluster<\/td>\n<td>Host A<\/td>\n<td>WC_Portlet1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Portlet_Cluster<\/td>\n<td>Host B<\/td>\n<td>WC_Portlet2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Collaboration_Cluster<\/td>\n<td>Host A<\/td>\n<td>WC_Collaboration1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Collaboration_Cluster<\/td>\n<td>Host B<\/td>\n<td>WC_Collaboration2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Utilities_Cluster<\/td>\n<td>Host A<\/td>\n<td>WC_Utilities1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Utilities_Cluster<\/td>\n<td>Host B<\/td>\n<td>WC_Utilities1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Add AdminServer to Host A<\/p>\n<p>Post bind GID: oinstall, Post bind UID: oracle<\/p>\n<p>Start Admin Server<\/p>\n<p>Create boot properties file for AdminServer with login id\/password \/<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME&gt;\/user_projects\/domains\/&lt;DOMAIN_NAME&gt;\/servers\/AdminServer\/security\/boot.properties<\/pre>\n<p><strong>4. Propagate Domain Configuration to Host B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pack the domain configuration in Host A:<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME&gt;\/oracle_common\/common\/bin\n.\/pack.sh -managed=true -domain= \/&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME&gt;\/user_projects\/domains\/&lt;DOMAIN_NAME&gt; \u2013template=\/&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME&gt;\/&lt;DOMAIN_NAME&gt;.jar -template_name=&lt;DOMAIN_NAME&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>Copy the &lt;DOMAIN_NAME&gt;.jar file to Host B<\/p>\n<p>Un-Pack the domain configuration in Host B:<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME&gt;\/oracle_common\/common\/bin\n.\/unpack.sh \u2013domain= \/&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME&gt;\/user_projects\/domains\/&lt;DOMAIN_NAME&gt; \u2013template= \/&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME&gt;\/&lt;DOMAIN_NAME&gt;.jar<\/pre>\n<p><strong>5. Configure Node Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Update Node Manager properties on Host A and Host B<\/p>\n<pre>\/&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME&gt;\/wlserver_10.3\/common\/nodemanager\nvi nodemanager.properties\n<strong>StartScriptEnabled=true<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>Enroll Node Manager with Domain on Host A and repeat the same on Host B<\/p>\n<pre>\/&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME&gt;\/wlserver_10.3\/common\/bin\/wlst.sh\nConnect to the AdminSever on Host A\nnmEnroll('&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME\/user_projects\/domains\/&lt;DOMAIN_NAME&gt;','&lt;MIDDLEWARE_HOME&gt;\/wlserver_10.3,common\/nodemanager)<\/pre>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">6. Start Servers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Start Node Manager on both the nodes<\/p>\n<p>Start all Managed Servers through Admin Console<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post describes the high level installation steps for installing Oracle WebCenter Portal and Content in a Clustered architecture to achieve High Availability. Host A and Host B are the two machines (nodes) to be included in the cluster. 1. Run the WebCenter Portal Repository Creation Utility (RCU) 2. 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