New Management Console

This release of Portal Server introduces a new console for managing Portal Server functions. You can access the console using a browser client from a distinct URL. The Portal Server 7.0 management console enables portal administrators to manage the following:

• Multiple portal and portal server instances

• Import and export of portal resources

• The Desktop

• JavaServer Faces portlets

• Services for logging, user behavior tracking, and monitoring

• Web services for remote portlets (WSRP) registry

• Subscription, WSRP, and Search

• Struts framework

• Sun Java^TM System Secure Remote Access and SSO Adapter

The administration console allows administrators to manage a variety of tasks. Many of these tasks are available through the management console's Common Tasks tab. They include the following:

• Reviewing the Portal Server log file for errors and warnings to help diagnose a problem

• Customizing a standard Desktop channel by overriding default channel properties at specific LDAP node level

• Editing a Search robot site to reflect changes in external resources

• Starting and stopping the Search robot

• Add a channel or container to Desktop

• Add a tab to Desktop

• Deploy portlet

• Undeploy portlet

The new management console:

• Supports session time-out for idle sessions

• Validates user sessions for every request

• Supports configuration of secured HTTP connection

• Is an application that complies with Java^TM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE^TM) platform technology

Other changes include the following:

• Delegated administration is not available

• Editing of rewriter ruleset is not available

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  Note –

  Previous releases of Portal Server provide an administration console that portal administrators use to manage both access management and Portal Server functions. You do not need to use the Sun Java^TM System Access Manager console to perform Portal Server administration tasks available in the new console. However, you must continue to use the Access Manager administrative console to manage identity-based objects, including users, roles and organizations.

  For information about using the Access Manager administration console for access management, see Access Manager documentation at docs.sun.com.

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The Portal Server command-line interface also provides a number of new psadmin subcommands for managing your portal. These include subcommands for:

• Redeploying a portal server to a web container instance

• Exporting and importing desktop data

• Scheduling commands to be run at specified time and cancelling commands that are scheduled

For information about all psadmin subcommands, see the Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Command-Line Reference.