Once you face performance or integration problems with your portal solution, good advice is not easily come by – at least at a reasonable price. There are enough handles to turn, the possible sources of the troubles in configuration or architecture are almost immeasurable for the standard user. If you are then left to your own devices or have to rely upon a less than expert service provider, the costs are sure to go right over the top soon.  Not so when consulting WP-Experts: Based upon the experience gathered in years of successful portal projects, the Rhineland-based portal professionals have been the first, and so far only, specialists to develop a standardized service offering: The Portal Audit.

In a maximum of 10 days a number of closely defined test instances will result in a comprehensive check-up of the complete productive environment, its configuration, and the overall infrastructure. Additionally, the performance, security settings, back-up automatisms, and all other critical aspects of your portal solution are closely examined. The result is a sound inventory full of easily applicable propositions for effective system optimization in order to achieve a powerful, reliable, and future-proof portal solution.

Table of test instances:

Live Environment Review:

• Documentation review
• Configuration review (especially cluster environment, LDAP and DB cluster integration)
• Caching time of LDAP attributes (especially for the language)
• Infrastructure review (integration of Load Balancer, HTTP Server, IChain, front-backend separation, Layer 4 Switch)
• Review of technical test cases
• Performance check, including review of past performance tests
• General security settings
• Security of IChain Accelerator (separation of public and private URLs)
• Backup Concept (is online backup possible and how)
• Monitoring (which parts of the application should be monitored and how)
• Hardware Review
  

System Test Environment Review

• Log file entries

Development Review (only special topics, not general)

• Configuration of the development (deployment issues)
• Portlet wiring (inter portlet communication)
• Release Builder
• Gadget Wrapper