How This Reference Configuration Guide is Organized

This reference configuration guide provides information about Sun's development of the reference configuration architecture and step-by-step instructions for implementing the reference configuration architecture on your network. This reference configuration guide is organized into the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Introduction to the Portal Service Reference Configuration describes the overall goals of the reference configuration and the business and technical requirements for portal services for medium-sized organizations.

• Chapter 2, Reference Configuration Architecture describes the architecture that is needed to meet the requirements. Use this chapter to understand the architecture before you attempt to implement it.

• Chapter 3, Deployment Specifications describes how to prepare the detailed technical specifications that you will need to deploy the reference configuration architecture in your environment. The chapter includes a set of sample specifications that you can adapt for your own use.

• Chapter 4, Implementation Module 1: Directory Server With Multimaster Replication contains detailed procedures for installing and configuring the directory service module in your environment.

• Chapter 5, Implementation Module 2: Access Manager With Session Failover on Application Server contains detailed procedures for installing and configuring the Access Manager service module in your environment.

• Chapter 6, Implementation Module 3: Portal Server With Portlet Session Failover on Application Server Cluster contains detailed procedures for installing and configuring the portal service module in your environment.

• Chapter 7, Implementation Module 4: Secure Remote Access Gateway contains detailed procedures for installing and configuring the Secure Remote Access (SRA) Gateway module in your environment.