Preface

This guide provides information about configuring Oracle9iAS Portal.

Note: This guide uses Oracle Portal when referring to Oracle9iAS Portal.

This preface includes the following sections:

• Intended Audience

• Structure

• Conventions

• Documentation

• Documentation Accessibility

• Oracle Services and Support

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for users who are responsible for configuring and maintaining Oracle Portal.

Structure

This guide is comprised of the following:

Chapter	Contents
Chapter 1, "Verifying Requirements"	Provides information about the Oracle Portal system requirements.
Chapter 2, "Post-installation and Configuration Tasks"	Provides general post-installation information including how to access Oracle Portal in your browser, installing and changing the language of Oracle Portal in your browser, and descriptions of the default Oracle Portal schemas, accounts, and groups created upon installation. Deinstallation information is also provided.
Chapter 3, "Basic Oracle Portal Configurations"	Provides various topologies that you can set up with Oracle Portal including standalone laptop, integrated server, and traditional three-tier.
Chapter 4, "Distributed Oracle Portal Installations"	Provides instructions on running Oracle Portal in a distributed environment to enable portlet providers to be shared across nodes and for increased scalability, availability, and performance.
Chapter 5, "Oracle9iAS Middle-tier and Firewall Configuration"	Provides instructions on how to configure a separate Login Server listener from the Oracle Portal listener.
Chapter 6, "Setting up the Search Feature in Oracle Portal Content Areas"	Provides instructions on setting up interMedia Text to perform text searching in content areas created with Oracle Portal.
Chapter 7, "Building Oracle Portal Reports and Forms with Rich Content"	Provides instructions on including rich content such as graphics, audio, images, and video into Oracle Portal Reports and Oracle Portal Forms.
Chapter 8, "Troubleshooting"	Provides solutions to problems you may encounter while installing or using Oracle Portal.
Appendix A, "Oracle9i Application Server Configuration Files"	Provides information about the configuration files which can affect the connection to and the behavior of the Oracle9i Application Server and its components in the middle tier as well as on other machines to which it is connecting.
Appendix B, "Oracle Portal Installation and Configuration Scripts"	Provides information about various scripts that are used for customizing the configuration. In addition, information about installing additional components, such as a standalone Login Server, additional Oracle Portal nodes, loading additional language translations into Oracle Portal, and import and export utilities, are provided.

Conventions

The following typographical conventions are used in this guide:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Used for emphasis. Also used for button names, labels, links, and other user interface elements.
italics	Used to introduce new terms. Also used enclosed in angled brackets (<>) to represent a variable. Substitute an appropriate value.
courier	Used to represent text you need to type. Also used for file names and directories.
<ORACLE_HOME>	Refers to the location of the Oracle9i Application Server installation files, including those for the Oracle Portal component.

Documentation

The Oracle Portal Online Help Content Area is an online help system which provides detailed step-by-step instructions and reference information, as well as an introduction to Oracle Portal and troubleshooting information.

This guide refers you to various "topics" included in the online help system.

Note: To perform full text searching in the online help system, interMedia Text must be configured. See Chapter 6, "Setting up the Search Feature in Oracle Portal Content Areas" for more information.

Oracle Portal Publications

You can also refer to the following publications which are available from the Oracle Technology Network at:

http://technet.oracle.com

Part Number	Title	Description
A90095-01	Release Notes	Describes last minute changes to the product or documentation.
A90097-01	Tutorial	Provides step-by-step lessons that teach you the basics of Oracle Portal.
A90098-01	Building Advanced Portals	Provides several cases that show you how to use Oracle Portal's advanced features.
N/A	Oracle Portal Development Kit	Provides detailed information about the Oracle Portal API set as well as numerous examples that demonstrate API implementation.

Documentation Accessibility

Oracle's goal is to make our products, services, and supporting documentation accessible to the disabled community with good usability. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For additional information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program web site at:

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Oracle Services and Support

A wide range of information about Oracle products and services is available at:

http://www.oracle.com

Oracle Support Services

Technical Support contact information worldwide is listed at:

http://www.oracle.com/support

Product and Documentation

For U.S.A customers, the Oracle Store is at:

http://store.oracle.com 

Links to Stores in other countries are provided from this site.

Product documentation can be found at:

http://docs.oracle.com 

Education and Training

Training information and worldwide schedules are available from:

http://education.oracle.com 

Oracle Technology Network

Register with the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at:

http://technet.oracle.com

OTN delivers technical papers, code samples, product documentation, and self-service developer support.