Command Line Tools for Administration

This release of the Portal Server software includes command line administration and management tools.

Overview

The Portal Server 7 administration CLI introduces a new administration CLI utility called psadmin. This utility facilitates all Portal Server management capabilities using the new Portal Server Administration Framework. The CLI contains functionality to administer and manage the following portal components:

• Portal Server Management. The management CLI provides management and administration capabilities of the following functionality:

  • Portal management (create/delete)

  • Portal Server Instance management (create/delete/start/stop) within a Portal

  • Deploy Portal Server Instance to the web container

  • Resources management (import/export of portal data) within a Portal

• Portal Server Monitoring Subsystem

• Desktop

• Search

• Rewriter

• Logging framework

• User Behavior Tracking

• SSO Adapter

• Subscription

• WSRP Producer and WSRP Consumer

• Mobile Access

• Secure Remote Access

All of the CLIs are called from one single utility called psadmin. Each CLI serves as one subcommand of psadmin. The Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Command-Line Reference describes the psadmin utility and its subcommands.

psadmin Utility Usage

psadmin
psadmin {--help | help | -?} [component=componentName]
psadmin command {--help | -?}
psadmin {--version | -V} --adminuser|-u userName --passwordfile|-f passwordFile

When component is specified, list of component specific commands are displayed. The valid component names are: portal, desktop, logging, monitoring, portlet, rewriter, search, sra, ssoadapter, subscriptions, ubt, and wsrp.