Access Manager Functions

Portal Server administrators use the Sun Java^TM System Access Manager administrative console to manage tasks related to identity. This section provides the following topics:

• Portal Server User Identity

• Identity-Specific Portal Content

• Portal Server Login Accounts

Portal Server User Identity

Tasks related to identity of Portal Server users are provided by Access Manager, not Portal Server. Administrators use the Access Manager administrative console to perform the following tasks:

• Manage identity-based objects, including users, roles, and organizations to administer and assign appropriate access to users according to roles they have within organizations or suborganizations

• Delegate administrative functions to specific end users by authorizing the end users to administer organizations, suborganizations, users, policy, roles, and channels

• Reset administrator passwords, in the same way other passwords are changed

Identity-Specific Portal Content

Access Manager allows portal administrators to deliver portal content that is based on identities of specific end users. Administrators can define portal pages, attributes and access policies so that portal content is available only to the following identities:

• A specific organization

• A specific suborganization

• A role

• An individual

Individual end users who access the portal see a combined view of all portal pages.

Portal Server Login Accounts

A default administrator's account for logging in to the Portal Server management console is set up during Portal Server installation.

Administrators can set up additional login accounts for other portal administrators. Each new user must have the following:

• A valid user entry in the Access Manager console

• A Top-level Admin Role assignment