Frequently Asked Questions
What is WebRadar?
WebRadar provides insight to the health of a content repository and content production processes and thus the overall health and quality of a web site. WebRadar evaluates content within your repository, building critical metrics and generating reports that put administrators in complete control. In addition, WebRadar allows administrators to perform strategic updates to many content items at once.
Why use WebRadar?
WebRadar allows content administrators to identify and solve problems quickly before they impact the side while streamlining the content production process. Additionally WebRadar provides key back-end content performance metrics, unavailable in the marketplace.
Who uses WebRadar?
LWCM administrators and content owners can take advantage of WebRadar's repository wide reporting and management features. Administrators can use WebRadar to monitor their systems, identifying issues and then making adjustments before errors can occur. Content owners can use WebRadar to monitor individual content items or groups of content items to ensure that content is produced on-time and of a specific quality.
What levels of of WCM does WebRadar support?
WebRadar requires IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1+ with IBM Lotus Web Content Management 6.1+.
What DBs and release levels does WebRadar support?
WebRadar currently relies on DB2.
Will WebRadar support other database technologies?
Currently WebRadar relies on DB2. WebRadar 2.0 will include support for DB2, MS SQL, and Oracle databases.
What WCM products does WebRadar support?
WebRadar currently supports IBM Lotus Web Content Management.
Does WebRadar impact performance?
WebRadar extracts data from the WCM database and caches it in a reporting database that enables reports to be run without impacting the performance of WCM.
What WCM metadata types are supported?
WebRadar supports metadata found in most common WCM configurations including various people types, structure types, taxonomies, date types, workflow types, and description types.
Can I create customized reports?
Beginning in WebRadar 2.0, users can create and run reports based on multiple criteria.
Can I customize the WebRadar user interface?
Customizable reports and dashboards are available in WebRadar 2.0
