About This Guide

This guide explains how to manage the administration functions of Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Mobile Access software. This preface includes the following sections:

You should read this book if you are portal administrator or system administrator responsible for managing Sun ONE Portal Server, Mobile Access software at your site.

What You Need to Know

What you need to know will vary with the characteristics of your site. Understanding of the following is recommended:

Your Web container, such as Sun™ ONE Application Server 7.0 Platform Edition, Update 2, or Sun™ ONE Web Server 6.1

Sun™ ONE Identity Server 6.1

Sun™ ONE Portal Server 6.2

Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access 6.2

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

Basic UNIX® administrative procedures

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

LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol)

How This Guide Is Organized

Chapter 1, "Overview," describes key features for Mobile Access software, as well as Mobile Access functions added to Identity Server software’s administration console 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 databse, and using Sun™ ONE Identity Server 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," explains the function of the wireless desktop dispatcher and provides steps for editing various mobile Portal Desktop properties.

Chapter 5, "Configuring Mobile Applications," explains how to use the administration console provided by Identity Server software to manage the application preferences associated with the address book, calendar, and mail applications.

Chapter 6, "Deploying Online Help for the Mobile Portal Desktop," outlines the process for deploying online help files to the mobile Portal Desktop.

Chapter 7, "Configuring Voice Access," explains Mobile Access software’s support for voice access to portal sites.

Appendix A, "Mobile Access Software Schema Reference," is a reference for Portal Server, Mobile Access software schema definitions used by Identity Server software.

Conventions Used in This Guide

The guide uses several 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 (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.

Where to Find Related Information

In addition to this guide, this Mobile Access software release provides supplementary information for administrators as well as documentation for developers.

Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Mobile Access Release Notes

Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Mobile Access Installation Guide

Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Mobile Access Developer’s Manual

Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Mobile Access Tag Reference Library



Note	Check the Mobile Access documentation web site at http://docs.sun.com/db/prod/s1portalsrv for updates to the Mobile Access documentation.

Where to Find This Guide Online

You can find the Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Mobile Access 6.2 Administrator’s Guide online in PDF and HTML formats. This book can be found at the following URL: