About This Guide

This guide explains how to manage the administration functions of Sun Java™ System Portal Server Mobile Access (formerly known as Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Mobile Access) software. This chapter includes the following sections:

Who Should Use This Book

You should review this book if you are Portal Server administrator or system administrator responsible for managing Mobile Access software at your site.

What You Need to Know

Before you administer Mobile Access, you must be familiar with the following concepts:

Basic Solaris^TM administration procedures

Basic UNIX� administration procedures

LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol)

Markup languages used to create portal content appropriate for mobile and voice environments, such as HTML, cHTML, and VoiceXML

Solaris™ 8 Operating System (SPARC� Platform Edition) or Solaris™ 9 Operating System (SPARC� Platform Edition) or Solaris™ Operating System (x86 Platform Edition)

Sun Java^TM System Directory Server (formerly Sun ONE Directory Server)

Sun Java^TM System Access Manager (formerly Sun ONE Identity Server, and Sun Java System Identity Server)

Sun Java^TM System Portal Server 7

Sun Java^TM System Portal Server Secure Remote Access 7

Depending on the Web container that you are using, you should be familiar with one or more of the following:

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, "Overview," describes the key features of the Mobile Access software, as well as Mobile Access functions and Portal Server desktop, the primary end user interface.

Chapter 2, "Managing Mobile Devices," provides information about identifying and managing mobile devices, managing the client database, and using Sun Java System Access Manager client detection interface to manage client type data.

Chapter 3, "Configuring Mobile Authentication," describes authentication modules that can be useful to portal sites offering mobile access.

Chapter 4, "Managing the Mobile Portal Desktop," provides an overview of the wireless desktop dispatcher and the mobile Portal desktop properties.

Chapter 5, "Configuring Mobile Applications," provides an overview on how you can manage the application preferences

Chapter 6, "Configuring Voice Access," explains Mobile Access software’s support for voice access to portal sites.

Conventions Used in This Book

The guide uses typographical conventions to represent types of information presented.

Monospaced Font

Monospaced font is used for any text that appears on the computer screen or text that you should type. It is also used for file names, distinguished names, functions, and examples.

Bold Monospaced Font

Bold monospaced font is used to represent text within a code example that you should type. For example, you might see something like this:

This product will run without a license. However, you must either purchase a Binary Code License from, or accept the terms of a Binary Software Evaluation license with, Sun Microsystems, to legally use this product.

In this example, ./pssetup is what you would type from the command line. The rest is what would appear as a result.

Italicized Font

An italicized font is used to represent text that you enter using information that is unique to your installation (for example, variables). It is used for server paths and names and account IDs.

Square or Straight Brackets

Square (or straight) brackets [] are used to enclose optional parameters. For example, in Portal Server software documentation, you will see the usage for the dpadmin command described as follows:

The presence of [command-specific] indicates that optional parameters can be added to the dpadmin command.

Command-Line Prompts

Command-line prompts (for example, % for a C-Shell, or $ for a Korn or Bourne shell) are not displayed in examples. Depending on which operating system environment you are using, you will see a variety of different command-line prompts. However, you should enter the command as it appears in the document unless specifically noted otherwise.

Related Documentation

The http://docs.sun.comSM web site enables you to access Sun technical documentation online. You can browse the archive or search for a specific book title or subject.

Books in This Documentation Set

The following table summarizes the books included in the Portal Server Mobile Access core documentation set.


Book Title	Description
Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile Access Deployment Planning Guide	Describes how to plan for and deploy Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile Access software.
Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile Access Administration Guide	Describes how to administer Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile Access 7 using the administration console and the command line.
Sun Java System Portal Server Release Notes	Available after the product is released. Contains last-minute information, including a description of what is new in this current release, known problems and limitations, installation notes, and how to report issues with the software or the documentation.
Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile Access Developer’s Guide	Describes a developer’s perspective of the mobile access software. It also provides information about three mobile applications that is shipped with the software: Calendar, Address Book, and Mail, all of which can be fully customized by developers.
Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile Access Developer’s Reference Guide	Provides reference to developer’s on how they can customize the three mobile application that is shipped along with the software: Calendar, Address Book, and Mail.
Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile Access Tag Reference Library	Provides detailed information on the Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile Access tag libraries (in the software).

Other Portal Server Documentation

Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Deployment Planning Guide

Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Desktop Customization Guide

Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Developer's Guide

Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Administration Guide

Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Secure Remote Access Administration Guide

Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Technical Reference Guide

Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Installation Guide

Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Command Line Reference

Use the following URL to view all the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.0 documentation:

Accessing Sun Resources Online

For product downloads, professional services, patches and support, and additional developer information, go to the following:

Contacting Sun Technical Support

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