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HCL Digital Experience Product Documentation
Welcome to the product documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Find information about how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend solutions.
HCL Digital Experience 8.5
Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 8.5 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
Monitoring
HCL Portal includes tools and features to help you monitor the portal site.
Portlet load monitoring for HCL Portal
HCL Digital Experience now provides Portlet load monitoring. This can make your portal safer and more responsive.

HCL Digital Experience Product Documentation
Welcome to the product documentation for HCL Digital Experience. Find information about how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend solutions.
- HCL Digital Experience 9.5
- HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy Content]
- HCL Digital Experience 9.0
  Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 9.0 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
- HCL Digital Experience 8.5
  Learn how to install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and use Version 8.5 of HCL Web Content Manager and HCL Portal Server, Enable, and Extend.
  - Overview
    HCL Digital Experience (formerly IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager) empowers you to create, manage, and deliver engaging omnichannel digital experiences to virtually all audiences with responsive content, targeted offers, seamlessly integrated applications, and consistent branding across channels (web, mobile. and hybrid mobile/web applications and more).
  - Roadmaps to deploy your system
    Review the roadmaps to understand the common deployment, configuration, migration, and integration patterns.
  - Roadmaps to create your website
    Review the roadmaps to understand how to create your website.
  - Online Help
    This Online Help is made available in the HCL Digital Experience Help Center for quick references on how to install, configure, maintain, and use HCL Digital Experience.
  - Installing
    HCL Digital Experience provides flexible deployment options that range from proof-of-concept where you can examine and test functionality to a highly available and scalable production environment. Review the planning information to learn more about hardware and software requirements, high availability, scalability, supported topologies, and much more. Select your operating system and then select the installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.
  - Configuring
    Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
  - Backup and restore
    Backup and recovery of data files and databases is an essential operation for any business system, particularly for data and applications that run in production environments. Create and follow a plan for backing up and recovering data on all tiers of your HCL Digital Experience deployment. IBM Installation Manager must also be included in backup and recovery planning. If you back up the HCL Portal file structure and then install a fix pack, your HCL Digital Experience and IBM Installation Manager become out of sync after you restore the HCL Portal file system. This condition is not recoverable.
  - Migrating
    Successful migration requires significant planning and preparation, understanding the tools that are involved, and careful execution of the appropriate steps in the order provided.
  - Integrating
    Integrate HCL Digital Experience with software such as HCL Sametime to enable your users to collaborate more easily. You can also use the unified task list portlet to integrate HCL with your backend business process software, such as IBM Process Server.
  - Administering
    Use the administration tools that are provided with the portal to do various day-to-day administration tasks. There are two methods for editing portal setup: using the administration portlets or the XML configuration interface. The administration portlets are a convenient way to make real-time updates to the portal's configuration. While the XML configuration interface is suited to more advanced administration, including batch processing of updates.
  - Securing
    Security tasks include setting up property extension databases and custom user repositories, configuring and activating SSL, and configuring authentication. In addition, tasks such as activating Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and NIST SP800-131a security modules and configuring external security managers such as Security Access Manager might be required to secure your portal environment.
  - Monitoring
    HCL Portal includes tools and features to help you monitor the portal site.
    - Portlet load monitoring for HCL Portal
      HCL Digital Experience now provides Portlet load monitoring. This can make your portal safer and more responsive.
      - Configuring and administering Portlet load monitoring
        Here is an overview of the configuration and administration tasks and parameters for Portlet load monitoring.
      - Portlet load monitoring properties
        By setting the portal and portlet configuration parameters, you can monitor the session load and configure the parameters to increase performance.
      - Administering Portlet load monitoring
        You can administer Portlet load monitoring and the portlets that it monitors. You can determine whether and in which cases Portlet load monitoring blocks or reenables a portlet by setting its portlet preferences. You can also check which portlets Portlet load monitoring monitors, and you can manually block or activate these portlets. For example, you can reenable a portlet after Portlet load monitoring has blocked it.
      - Logging and auditing events
        Portlet load monitoring allows you to log events. For example, this can help you audit events. When Portlet load monitoring blocks or enables a portlet, it creates a log file entry in the HCL Digital Experience log file SystemOut.log. This log file entry contains the portlet object ID, the portlet name, the WAR file name of the portlet and the EAR file display name. The log file entries consist of translated messages. If you use tools that monitor log files for events, you can check for log file entries that are related to Portlet load monitoring as described here.
      - API for accessing Portlet load monitoring data
        Portlet load monitoring provides an API for accessing the monitoring data. You can use this API to write custom code to access that data.
    - Analyzing portal usage data
      You can collect data about the usage of your portal and analyze them.
    - Auditing
      HCL Digital Experience includes an auditing function that allows users to log certain events and their originators in to a separate log file. This file can then be used to track administrative activities.
  - Setting up a website
    Setting up a website includes, creating pages, adding navigation, setting up search, and adding content to the site. Themes are used to customize the portal's look-and-feel. Out-of-the-box templates and the site wizard can help you set up your portal site faster. You can add wikis and blogs to your site and let users tag and rate content on your site.
  - Staging to production
    During portal solution development, the solution is initially developed, tested, and refined on one server or a limited number of servers. The solution is deployed later on live systems, referred to as the production environment. The process of moving the solution from the development environment to the production environment is called staging.
  - Developing
    This section includes developer documentation on extending applications and development assets for HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager.
  - Troubleshooting
    This section helps you resolve problems, use diagnostic tools and tracing to capture HCL Digital Experience system errors.
  - Reference
    View information that can help you use the Digital Experience Help Center including directory conventions, terms of use, trademarks, a glossary, and more.
  - Glossary
    This glossary includes terms and definitions for HCL Digital Experience.
  - Content Template Catalog 4.4
    The Content Template (CTC) is a set of templates that accelerate the process of building a website.

Portlet load monitoring for HCL Portal | HCL Digital Experience

HCL Digital Experience now provides Portlet load monitoring. This can make your portal safer and more responsive.

Portlet load monitoring allows HCL Portal administrators to protect their portal by limiting the number of concurrent requests and the average response time allowed for JSR 168 or JSR 286 portlets. If a portlet exceeds either the defined maximum number of concurrent requests, or the average response time, then Portlet Load Monitoring no longer allows further requests by the portlet. Instead, the portal renders the portlet as unavailable, and the portlet code is no longer called for further requests. This way, the portal installation is protected from non-responsive portlets consuming an increasing number of threads.

These topics describe how you configure, administer, and use Portlet load monitoring and provides other useful information about it.

Note: Portlet load monitoring monitors JSR 168 and JSR 286 portlets only.