This release of Portal Server introduces a new console for managing Portal Server functions. You can access the console using a browser client from a distinct URL. The Portal Server 7.0 management console enables portal administrators to manage the following:
Multiple portal and portal server instances
Import and export of portal resources
The Desktop
JavaServer Faces portlets
Services for logging, user behavior tracking, and monitoring
Web services for remote portlets (WSRP) registry
Subscription, WSRP, and Search
Struts framework
Sun JavaTM System Secure Remote Access and SSO Adapter
The administration console allows administrators to manage a variety of tasks. Many of these tasks are available through the management console's Common Tasks tab. They include the following:
Reviewing the Portal Server log file for errors and warnings to help diagnose a problem
Customizing a standard Desktop channel by overriding default channel properties at specific LDAP node level
Editing a Search robot site to reflect changes in external resources
Starting and stopping the Search robot
Add a channel or container to Desktop
Add a tab to Desktop
Deploy portlet
Undeploy portlet
The new management console:
Supports session time-out for idle sessions
Validates user sessions for every request
Supports configuration of secured HTTP connection
Is an application that complies with JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) platform technology
Other changes include the following:
Delegated administration is not available
Editing of rewriter ruleset is not available
Previous releases of Portal Server provide an administration console that portal administrators use to manage both access management and Portal Server functions. You do not need to use the Sun JavaTM System Access Manager console to perform Portal Server administration tasks available in the new console. However, you must continue to use the Access Manager administrative console to manage identity-based objects, including users, roles and organizations.
For information about using the Access Manager administration console for access management, see Access Manager documentation at docs.sun.com.
The Portal Server command-line interface also provides a number of new psadmin subcommands for managing your portal. These include subcommands for:
Redeploying a portal server to a web container instance
Exporting and importing desktop data
Scheduling commands to be run at specified time and cancelling commands that are scheduled
For information about all psadmin subcommands, see the Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Command-Line Reference.