The Administration Console

Mobile Access software administrators use the Access Manager’s administration console to complete most ongoing, day-to-day administrative tasks.

This section provides the following details about using the administration console to manage mobile access to a portal site:

• Mobile Access Software Features

• Typical Administrator Functions

• Logging In

For details about the Access Manager administration console and how to manage Access Manager software, see the Sun Java System Access Manager 7 2005Q4 Administration Guide.

Mobile Access Software Features

The features needed to manage mobile access to a portal site are part of the administration console and portal console.

The features that are a part of the administration console include:

• Conditional properties pages for each mobile device client type.

• Markup language categories and properties definitions for mobile device client types

The features that are a part of the portal console include:

• Default container channels for the mobile Portal Desktop

• Providers for mobile Portal Desktop

• Service Configuration pages for the mobile address book, mail and calendar applications

Typical Administrator Functions

Some of the functions that you can perform to manage a mobile and voice Portal Desktop with the administration console include:

• Editing device profiles through Access Manager software’s client detection interface

• Controlling how channels are loaded with the mobile Portal Desktop by modifying properties of the desktop container

• Enabling users to bypass password identification by editing the NoPassword authentication module

Typical functions that are a part of the portal console include:

• Creating channels that are dynamically rendered for a particular mobile device

• Editing the default Mobile Access container to support non-default containers and their own unique channel lists

Logging In

The default URL for the Access Manager administration console is:

http://server:port/amconsole

The default URL for the Portal administration console is:

http://server:port/psconsole

Administrators log in to both the administration consoles as amadmin.

For more information on Portal Server software’s use of the administration console, see the Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Administration Guide.