Oracle® Beehive Administrator's Guide Release 1 (1.3) Part Number E10477-07 |
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Oracle Beehive is a new, powerful, and unified platform and application for enterprise collaboration. With an architecture that is built on Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Oracle Beehive offers a new paradigm for enterprise collaboration: a unified offering for in-context, team-based collaboration.
With Oracle Beehive, users can seamlessly collaborate in teams or individually. Oracle Beehive enables all users to easily save, organize, find, and share the content that they create during the course of their collaborative projects and day-to-day activities. Enterprise colleagues and key partners can leverage the platform to seamlessly interact in a variety of convenient and effective ways.
Oracle Beehive provides familiar collaborative features such as time management, instant messaging, content management, and e-mail, among others, and unifies them in a cohesive platform and application. The Oracle Beehive platform is also built on proven, cost effective, and secure Oracle technologies, such as Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server, for reliability, manageability, and performance.
To get started administering Oracle Beehive, you should first ensure that your installation is complete, and then perform any necessary post-install tasks.
Post-install tasks might include any of the following:
Changing port numbers for various services to new values
Configuring Oracle Beehive to synchronize with a third-party, LDAP-based user directory
Installing or configuring a security certificate to enable secure communications protocols such as SSL
Creating a backup of your deployment in its fresh, successfully-installed state
For a complete listing of post-installation tasks, see the "Oracle Beehive Post-Installation Procedures" module in the Oracle Beehive Installation Guide relevant to your platform.
If you have finished performing all post-install tasks, you can begin working with Oracle Beehive. You should begin by familiarizing yourself with the Oracle Beehive
command-line utility.beectl
beectl
Access the Oracle Beehive beectl
command-line utility from the following directory on any Oracle Beehive Application tier:
$ORACLE_HOME/beehive/bin
The Oracle Beehive beectl
utility is always used in conjunction with a qualifying command. When running an beectl
command, the following syntax should be used:
beectl command --option <argument>
Where command represents the beectl
command, --option represents an available option(s) to use with the command, and <argument> represents a valid argument passed with an option.
For complete documentation of the various beectl
commands and options, see "Oracle Beehive Command-Line Utility" in Module 2 of the Oracle Beehive Administrator's Reference Guide.
Some administration tasks may be accomplished by using Oracle Beehive clients. These tasks are typically oriented towards creating or managing Oracle Beehive entities, such as groups, event subscriptions, and resources. The exact functionality exposed varies between the possible clients. For example, using Oracle Beehive Integration for Outlook exposes workspaces, calendar events, tasks, and resources, while a pure e-mail client such as Mozilla Thunderbird exposes a more limited subset of functionality.
The following are some suggestions for first administration tasks using Oracle Beehive, and how to learn more about doing each of them:
Create a structure of organizations to model your user population
Create and provision some users and groups
See "Managing and Provisioning Oracle Beehive Users" for details.
Create some team workspaces
See "Managing Oracle Beehive Workspaces" for details.
Create some resources
See "Managing Oracle Beehive Resources" for details.
Enable Oracle Collaboration Coexistence Gateway, and provision users for coexistence.
See "Configuring and Managing Oracle Collaboration Coexistence Gateway" for details
Configure Oracle Beehive Mobility Services
See "Managing Oracle Beehive Mobility Services" for details.
Although the above list is not exhaustive, it is sufficient to expose some of the basic functionality of Oracle Beehive.