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The following table describes the components available in the portal installer. These portal components provide the functionality described in the Administrator Guide for Oracle WebCenter Interaction. For information on installing these components, refer to the Installation Guide for Oracle WebCenter Interaction.
| Component | Description |
|---|---|
| Administrative Portal | The administrative portal handles portal setup, configuration, and content. It enables administrative functions, such as creating and managing portlets and other web services. |
| Portal | The portal serves end user portal pages and content. It enables
end users to access portal content via My Pages, community pages,
the Knowledge Directory, and search. The portal also enables some
administrative actions, such as setting preferences on portlets or
managing communities. For information on advanced portal configuration, see Oracle WebCenter Configuration Manager. |
| Portal Database (scripts) | The scripts used to configure the database are included in the portal installer. The portal database stores portal objects, such as user and group configurations, document records, and administrative objects. The portal database does not store the documents available through your portal. Source documents are left in their original locations. |
| Automation Service | The Automation Service runs jobs and other automated portal
tasks. You run jobs to perform tasks such as crawling documents into
the Knowledge Directory, synchronizing groups and users with external
authentication sources, and maintaining the search collection. For information on configuring Automation Service jobs, see Automating Administrative Tasks. |
| API Service | The API Service provides access to the SOAP API. |
| Image Service | The Image Service serves static content used or created by
portal components. It serves images and other static content for use
by the Oracle WebCenter Interaction system. Whenever you extend the base portal deployment to include additional components, such as portal servers or integration products, you may have to install additional Image Service files. For information on installing the Image Service files for those components, refer to the documentation included with the component software. |
| Search Service | The Search Service returns content that is indexed from Oracle
WebCenter Interaction and Oracle WebCenter Collaboration. The indexed
content includes documents, portlets, communities, and users as well
as many other Oracle WebCenter objects. For information on advanced Search Service configuration, see Oracle WebCenter Configuration Manager. |
| Document Repository Service | The Document Repository Service stores content uploaded into the portal and Oracle WebCenter Collaboration. |
| Content Upload Service | The Content Upload Service lets you add files to the portal’s Knowledge Directory by uploading them to the Document Repository Service, rather than leaving them in their original locations. This is useful if users need to access documents located in an internal network from outside your network. |
| Directory Service | The Directory Service enables Oracle WebCenter Interaction to act as an LDAP server, exposing the user, group, and profile data in the portal database through an LDAP interface. This enables other Oracle WebCenter products (and other third-party applications) to authenticate users against the portal database. |
| Remote Portlet Service | The Remote Portlet Service includes the following components:
Note: If you use the REST-based API to submit other activities
into the activity stream, those activities will also be displayed
in the User Activities portlet.
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| Notification Service | The Notification Service enables the portal to send e-mail notifications to users upon specified events. There are no portal events that trigger notifications, but other Oracle WebCenter events do trigger notifications. For example, Oracle WebCenter Collaboration can be configured to send notifications to users when documents are uploaded. |
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