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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 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.
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.
User registry
User information is stored in your user registry. You can enable LDAP referrals, configure HCL Digital Experience to use dynamic groups, update your user registry, or delete your user registry configurations.
Advanced group configurations
It is possible to use HCL Digital Experience ConfigEngine helper tasks to set up advanced Virtual Member Manager (VMM) group configurations. Specifically, it is possible to configure VMM to understand and use the "Group membership attribute" that many directories support.
Configuring HCL Portal to use dynamic groups
By default, HCL Digital Experience is enabled for static groups. However, the Virtual Member Manager (VMM) allows users to be members of either static or dynamic groups. Static groups have a persistent binding between a group and its members. Dynamic groups have a search query that is defined to retrieve the members of a group.

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.
  - Overview
    HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences per user.
  - Supported migration paths
    Migration is supported between equivalent offerings. Starting with CF17, additional migration options are supported for HCL Portal server and HCL Web Content Manager offerings.
  - Getting the software
    New and existing users need to sign up or register at HCL Software and download their HCL Digital Experience package.
  - 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.
  - Migrating to WebSphere Application Server V9.0
    If you are installing HCL Digital Experience Version 9.0, migrate your IBM WebSphere Application Server to Version 9.0.
  - 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.
    - Configuration Wizard
      Use the Configuration Wizard to set up stand-alone servers and new deployments, create clusters, migrate and update to new versions, and add new capabilities to existing deployments.
    - Setting up a stand-alone server
      Use the Configuration Wizard to set up a stand-alone server. A stand-alone server is useful for different environments, such as a content authoring environment, test environment, and more.
    - Setting up a cluster
      Use the Configuration Wizard to set up either a dynamic or static horizontal cluster.
    - Tune your environment
      Tuning the servers is important to the performance of your environment. By default, HCL Digital Experience is not tuned for a production environment. Therefore, to ensure optimal performance review and complete the steps in the HCL Digital Experience Tuning Guide. If a tuning guide is not available for the current release, use the tuning guide from the previous product version.
    - Web servers
      HCL Digital Experience uses the internal HTTP transport within IBM WebSphere Application Server to handle requests. However, because WebSphere Application Server also supports the use of an external web server, you can access HCL Portal from your web server. You can use a local web server on the same server as HCL Portal or you can use a remote web server on a different server. A remote web server is typical for a production environment or other high-traffic configuration and is also typically placed in DMZ outside a firewall to protect portal ports.
    - HCL Portal
      First, finish your HCL Digital Experience deployment with the Configuration Wizard. Then, you can configure your environment further. For example, you can tune your servers to improve performance. You can change the default context root.
    - Database Management Systems
      Configure the connection between HCL Digital Experience and your database management system. The Database Transfer configuration option in the Configuration Wizard assigns users and permissions, creates databases, obtains support for database collation, and transfers your database.
    - User registry
      User information is stored in your user registry. You can enable LDAP referrals, configure HCL Digital Experience to use dynamic groups, update your user registry, or delete your user registry configurations.
      - Enable federated security
        You can use the Configuration Wizard to configure HCL Portal to use a federated LDAP for security. Use the following information to get familiar with the information you must provide in the wizard and the configuration procedure that it generates.
      - Adding more attributes to VMM
        After you install HCL Digital Experience and configuring your LDAP user registries, you must adapt the attribute configuration to match the configured LDAP servers and your business needs. However, do not complete these steps if you configured only a database user registry or the default federated file-based repository for out-of-box installations.
      - Enabling application groups
        You can define user groups within the database user registry with members (users or groups) contained in the federated LDAP user registry you configured with application groups. The benefit of application groups is that you can create groups that are only used in HCL Digital Experience.
      - Advanced group configurations
        It is possible to use HCL Digital Experience ConfigEngine helper tasks to set up advanced Virtual Member Manager (VMM) group configurations. Specifically, it is possible to configure VMM to understand and use the "Group membership attribute" that many directories support.
        Updating the group membership configuration
        The initial federated repositories setup might not include the advanced set up for the group membership attribute. You can configure the group membership attribute after the initial setup. Specify the properties in the wkplc.properties file and then run the wp-create-ldap-groupconfig task manually.
        Configuring HCL Portal to use dynamic groups
        By default, HCL Digital Experience is enabled for static groups. However, the Virtual Member Manager (VMM) allows users to be members of either static or dynamic groups. Static groups have a persistent binding between a group and its members. Dynamic groups have a search query that is defined to retrieve the members of a group.
      - Adding a database user registry
        Add a database user registry to the default federated repository to store user account information for authentication and authorization. You can add multiple database user registries to the default federated repository although you can add only one database user registry at a time.
      - Adding realm support
        A realm is a group of users from one or more user registries that form a coherent group within HCL Digital Experience. Realms allow flexible user management with various configuration options. A realm must be mapped to a Virtual Portal to allow the defined users to log in to the Virtual Portal. When you configure realm support, complete these steps for each base entry that exists in your LDAP and database user registry to create multiple realm support.
      - Updating your user registry
        After you deploy HCL Digital Experience, you can adjustment your federated user repository configurations. You can update these configurations to achieve the correct user registry configuration.
      - Deleting your user registry configurations
        After you deploy HCL Digital Experience, you might not require some of the LDAP entity types, realms, realm base entries, or repositories that you created. You can delete these configurations to achieve the correct user registry configuration.
    - Search
      You use Portal Search to search for text that is displayed in websites that are created by HCL Web Content Manager.
  - Reference
    View information that can help you use, including directory conventions, terms of use, trademarks, a glossary, and more.
- 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.

Configuring HCL Portal to use dynamic groups | HCL Digital Experience

By default, HCL Digital Experience is enabled for static groups. However, the Virtual Member Manager (VMM) allows users to be members of either static or dynamic groups. Static groups have a persistent binding between a group and its members. Dynamic groups have a search query that is defined to retrieve the members of a group.

About this task

Disclaimer: The following procedure is to activate dynamic group support natively in VMM. It is preferable, if possible, to use the group membership attribute support to bring in dynamic group information from your LDAP server. Using the group membership attribute support for dynamic group membership is only possible if:

Your LDAP server supports a group membership attribute
The group membership attribute includes dynamic group membership information

Otherwise, complete the following steps to manually configure HCL Portal to use dynamic groups.

Clustered environments: Complete the following steps on the Deployment Manager and then synchronize the nodes.

Procedure

Log in to the WebSphere® Integrated Solutions Console.
Go to Security > Global security.
In Available realm definitions, select Federated repositories and click Configure.
In Related Items, click Manage repositories.
Select the appropriate repository from the list.
In Additional Properties, click Group attribute definition and then click Dynamic member attributes.
Click New and specify values for the Name and Object class fields as appropriate.
For example:
- Name: memberurl
- Object class: groupofurls
Click OK and save the changes to the master configuration.
Stop and restart the appropriate servers to propagate the changes. For instructions, read Starting and stopping servers, deployment managers, and node agents.