Using the Portal Server Management Console

The Portal Server management console, which simplifies a variety of portal administration tasks, is a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE^TM) application that:

• Is accessible through a web browser

• Logs messages to a debug log according to configured debug level

• Logs setting changes that include name and value pairs

• Uses Java Management Extensions (JMX) technology to communicate with portal administrative MBeans in the Portal Administration Server to connect to the portal data store

The management console enables portal administrators to perform the following activities:

• Manage the Desktop and content delivery

• Track user behavior to help portal administrators diagnose, troubleshoot, and analyze issues related to end-user activities and how end users interact with various Portal Server components

• Obtain runtime statistics about Portal Server's Desktop and Secure Remote Access components

• Log information about Portal Server applications

About the Browser Interface

The management console's user interface arranges administration functions into pages. Across the top of each page is a tab strip. The tabs present pages that group management functions in an organized manner. To navigate from page to page, administrators click a tab. The tabs provided are the following:

• Common Tasks – Displays links that provide direct access to tasks that portal administrators frequently perform

• Portals – Lists deployed portals by their portal IDs so that portal administrators can select a specific portal

• Search Server – Lists names of specific search servers so that portal administrators can access pages for managing a specific search server

• Secure Remote Access – Allows portal administrators to manage how remote users securely access a portal and its services over the Internet

• SSO Adapter – Allows portal administrators to manage how end users gain authenticated access to applications after signing in once

Portal Server administrators can provide and limit access to content on a portal through the definitions of the identities of specific end users. You can set up portal pages, attributes and access policies so that portal content is available to specific entities. These entities include the following:

• A specific organization

• A specific suborganization

• A role

• An individual end-user

To Log In to the Management Console

Only administrators with SuperAdmin permission can access the Portal Server management console. Users access the Portal Server management console using a browser client from a distinct uniform resource identifier (URI).

1. Type this URL in your browser: http://hostname:port/psconsole

   hostname

   The name of the system that the management console is running on.

   port

   The management console's port number assigned during installation.

2. In the text boxes, type the Admin User Name and Password.

   The admin user should be a top-level administrator. A typical Admin User Name is amadmin.

3. Click the Log In button.

   The management console's Common Tasks page is displayed.