Part IV, Production, includes the following chapter:
In the production phase of the portal life cycle, your portal is live. In this phase, you can perform some management functions, such as adding users. In a federated portal, you can add and remove remote portlets, and perform most of the tasks described in Part III, Staging.
In the production phase, most of your work is done using the WebLogic Portal Administration Console. For more information about the portal life cycle, see the WebLogic Portal Overview.