About the User Interface

The management console's user interface arranges administration functions into pages. Across the top of each page is a tab strip. The tabs present pages that group management functions in an organized manner. To navigate from page to page, administrators click a tab.

This section provides a description of the following interface elements:

• Common Tasks Tab

• Portals Tab

• Search Servers Tab

• Secure Remote Access Tab

• SSO Adapter Tab

• Wizards

• Online Help

Common Tasks Tab

The Common Tasks page displays a series of links. The links are shortcuts that provide direct access to tasks that portal administrators frequently perform. When administrators log on to the management console, the Common Tasks tab is active. The tasks are organized into four categories:

• Configuration

• Reports and Logs

• Maintenance

• Documentation

Selecting a task provides direct access to the page or wizard for that task. For example, to update logger settings, click the Logger Settings link under the Maintenance heading.

Portals Tab

The Portals page lists the deployed portals by their portal IDs. This page allows administrators to do the following:

• Create new portals

• Remove portals

• Import and export portal resources

In addition, administrators can click the name of a specific portal to access pages for managing that portal. The pages allow administrators to do the following:

• Manage containers, channels, and portlets

• Manage the display profile

• Create and remove portal instances

• Manage web services for remote portlets (WSRP)

• Edit subscription component attributes

• Create reports that track user behavior

• View portal log files

• Monitor statistics for how a Desktop and a channel are used

During Portal Server installation, the portal1 portal is set up and listed on the Portals page.

Search Servers Tab

The Search Servers page allows portal administrators to manage the search server. This page allows administrators do the following:

• Set up a search server

• Remove a search server

• View basic identifying information about each search server

In addition, administrators can click the name of a specific search server to access pages for managing it. The pages allow administrators to do the following:

• View configuration details for a search server

• Manage a search server databases, and on nonfederated databases, re-index, purge, analyze, manage, and expire resource descriptions

• View and manage search server taxonomy

• View the status of a search server robot and manage robot behavior

• Schedule robot start and stop times

• View robot reports

Secure Remote Access Tab

The Secure Remote Access tab allows administrators to manage how remote users securely access a portal and its services over the Internet. This page allows administrators to do the following:

• Create, maintain, and remove Gateway profiles

• Specify options and rules for providing secure access to applications that run over insecure networks

• Define rules preferences for giving users access to remote file systems and directories

• Control user access to specific URLs through the Gateway

• Manage how client machines read and modify proxy settings in proxy autoconfiguration (PAC) files

• View attributes of resources

• Start and stop Secure Remote Access proxy instances and view details about the instances

• Copy an existing rewriter ruleset to a new location or obtain a new ruleset from another location

SSO Adapter Tab

The SSO Adapters page allows administrators to manage how end users gain authenticated access to applications after signing in once. This page allows administrators to do the following:

• View a list of SSO Adapter configurations for the current location distinguished name (DN)

• Add or remove users who have permission to use the SSO adapter without authentication

• Create, view, and remove SSO adapter templates

In addition, administrators can click the name of a specific meta-adapter that is set up to access pages for managing that portal. The pages allow administrators to do the following:

• Add and remove meta-adapters

• Add and remove adapters

• Change attributes of adapters and meta-adapters

Wizards

The management console provides easy-to-use wizards for tasks that require more than one step. The wizards:

• Collect information about a task

• Ask administrators to verify task information before the task is performed

An example of a wizard is the New Instance wizard, which provides the step-by-step process for creating a new portal instance.

Online Help

Online help provides assistance for completing management tasks and viewing information. To view online help, administrators click the Help button that is available on each page.