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Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 Installation Guide

About This Guide

This guide explains how to install the Sun™ Open Net Environment (Sun™ ONE) Portal Server 6.1 software and its accompanying software components. Sun ONE Portal Server provides a platform to create portals for your organization’s integrated data, knowledge management, and applications. The Sun ONE Portal Server platform offers a complete infrastructure solution for building and deploying all types of portals, including business-to-business, business-to-employee, and business-to-consumer.

This preface includes the following sections:

Who Should Read This Book

You should read this book if you are responsible for installing Sun ONE Portal Server at your site.

What You Need to Know

In order to install Sun ONE Portal Server, you must be familiar with the following products:

This book assumes you have a basic understanding of:

How This Book is Organized

This book contains the following chapters:

Document Conventions Used in This Guide

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

Also, all paths specified in this manual are in Unix format. If you are using a Windows NT-based Sun ONE Portal Server, you should assume the Windows NT equivalent file paths whenever Unix file paths are shown in this book.

Bold monospaced font is used to represent text within a code example that you should type. For example, you might see something like this:

./pssetup
*******************************************************************

Portal Server (6.1 release)

*******************************************************************

Installation log at /var/sadm/install/logs/pssetup.13343/setup.log

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.

Do you accept? yes/[no] Starting install wizard in graphical mode

In this example, ./pssetup is what you would type from the command line and the rest is what would appear as a result.

Italicized Font

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.

Command-Line Prompts

Command-line prompts (for example, % for a C-Shell, or $ for a Korn, or Bourne shell) are not displayed in the 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.

Variables

Table 1 is a two column table that describes the common variables used in this document. The first column lists the variables, and the second column provides a description of how the variables are used.

Table 1  Common Variables

Variable

Description

S1PSBaseDir

The Sun ONE Portal Server installation directory. For example, /opt.

DSBaseDir

The Sun ONE Directory Server installation directory. For example, /usr/ldap.

ISBaseDir

The Sun ONE Identity Server installation directory. For example, /opt.

UserID

User identification. For example, root or nobody.

Where to Find Related Information

In addition to this guide, Sun ONE Portal Server comes with supplementary information for administrators as well as documentation for developers. Use the following URL to see all the Sun ONE Portal Server documentation:

http://docs.sun.com/prod/s1portalsrv

Listed below are the additional documents released with the Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 documentation suite:

The following guides have not been updated for the Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 release; however, the information contained in these documents is applicable to the Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 product.

Where to Find This Guide Online

You can find the Sun ONE Portal Server 6.1 Installation Guide online in PDF and HTML formats. This book can be found at the following URL:

http://docs.sun.com/prod/s1portalsrv



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