Preface

The Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Technical Overview provides an introduction to Sun Java^TM System Portal Server concepts and components.

Who Should Use This Book

This guide is intended for system designers and architects, business managers, and Portal Server installers and administrators who are engaged in portal design and planning or who are already working in production environments. You should read this book if you are responsible for administering and configuring Portal Server software at your site.

This guide assumes that you are already familiar with the following topics:

• Your web container, such as Sun Java System Application Server, or Sun Java System Web Server

• Sun Java System Access Manager

• Sun Java System Directory Server

• Sun Java System Directory Server

• Your operating system

• Basic UNIX® administrative procedures

• LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol)

How This Book Is Organized

This guide is organized into the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Understanding Portal Server provides a conceptual overview of key features of Portal Server.

• Chapter 2, Understanding the Standard Desktop presents information about the standard Portal Server Desktop and delivering content to end users.

• Chapter 3, Understanding Communities and Collaboration describes community and collaboration features that Portal Sever provides for the Desktop to enhance the productivity of enterprises and their end users.

• Chapter 4, Understanding the Search Server provides information about the Portal Server search server.

• Chapter 5, Understanding the Management Console describes the browser interface that Portal Server provides for portal administration and configuration tasks.

• Chapter 6, Understanding Access Manager Functions summarizes how administrators use Access Manager to manage tasks that affect how Portal Server services are delivered.

• Chapter 7, Understanding Reports describes how Portal Server provides information about end users, servers, and logging activities.

• Chapter 8, Tuning Portal Server Performance explains the functions of the perftune() script.

Related Books

The docs.sun.com^SM web site enables you to access Sun technical documentation online. You can browse the archive or search for a specific book title or subject.

For access to the documentation for this release of Portal Server, see:

http://docs.sun.com/coll/1303.1.

Related Third-Party Web Site References

Third-party URLs are referenced in this document and provide additional, related information.

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Documentation, Support, and Training

Sun Function	URL	Description
Documentation	http://www.sun.com/documentation/	Download PDF and HTML documents, and order printed documents
Support and Training	http://www.sun.com/supportraining/	Obtain technical support, download patches, and learn about Sun courses

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic changes that are used in this book.

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	machine_name% su Password:
aabbcc123	Placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is rm filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. Perform a patch analysis. Do not save the file.