How This Book Is Organized

Chapters in the book are organized into three parts:

• Part I, Managing Sun Java System Portal Server

  • Chapter 1, Understanding Portal Server Management presents an overview of how Portal Server is managed.

  • Chapter 2, Managing Portals and Portal Server Instances describes setting up and administering Portal Server. Instructions for creating and deleting instances of Portal Server are included.

  • Chapter 3, Managing Organizations, Roles, and Users, provides instructions for managing organizations and users and for using LDAP nodes.

  • Chapter 4, Managing the Portal Server Desktop, describes steps for setting up end-user content delivered using the Portal Server.

  • Chapter 5, Web Services for Remote Portlets, provides information and instructions for using Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP).

  • Chapter 6, Managing Portal Server End-User Behavior Tracking, explains how to diagnose, troubleshoot, and analyze issues related to end-user activities and end-user interaction with various portal system components.

  • Chapter 7, Monitoring Portal Server Activity, explains how to obtain runtime information about the Desktop and Sun Java System Secure Remote Access server.

  • Chapter 8, Managing Portal Server Logging, describes how to control Portal Server logging.

  • Chapter 9, Managing Portal Server Subscriptions, describes how to configure and administer subscriptions.

  • Chapter 10, Managing the Portal Server Single Sign-On Adapter, presents information about using the SSO Adapter, which provides this configuration data for an authenticated connection to a portal, and the SSO Adapter service stores that data.

• Part II, Managing the Search Server

  • Chapter 11, Managing the Search Server, provides details about working with search categories and databases.

  • Chapter 12, Managing the Search Server Robot, describes the search server robot and its corresponding configuration files.

• Part III, Managing Delegated Administration

  • Chapter 13, Managing Delegated Administration Channels, explains how to decentralize administrative functions.

  • Chapter 14, Using the Portal Server Delegated Administration Tag Library, describes what reference information is available for the delegated administration tag library.