Administrators can use a browser interface, a command-line interface, or the Desktop to manage Portal Server. This topic provides the following sections:
Portal Server provides a management console, a browser interface, for performing administrative tasks required for managing the Portal Server. The tasks include:
Managing multiple portals and their operations
Setting up and managing containers and channels
Customizing the Desktop for end users
Enabling end users to personalize the Desktop
Managing multiple search servers
Tracking both end-user and system activities
End-user clicks on the standard Desktop
Configuration settings, statistics about channel actions, and statistics about Desktop requests and responses
Runtime information about the Portal Server and the Secure Remote Access server
For more information about the management console, see Chapter 5, Understanding the Management Console
Portal Server software provides a command-line interface (CLI). The CLI allows portal administrators to do the following:
Perform administrative tasks by typing commands using the keyboard
Automate regularly recurring management tasks by incorporating them into scripts
The CLI offers a number of psadmin subcommands for managing portal tasks. These include subcommands for:
Managing multiple portals and portal instances
Deploying portal and portlet WAR files
Managing the search server
Managing Secure Remote Access server
Managing monitoring
Managing portal logging
Most subcommands commands are written specifically to mimic functions in the browser interface. For management functions that have no special commands, administrators use standard UNIX commands.
For information about all psadmin subcommands, see the Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Command-Line Reference.
Portal Server provides an administration tag library for developing administration portlets that enable a portal to be managed from the Desktop instead of from the management console. Administrators can use this tag library to do the following:
Modify out-of-the-box administration portlets
Develop portlets with new administration functionality
Support user management, provider management, and portlet and WSRP management tasks
Create and administer channels that are based on JSPProvider
Write custom administration portlets with a custom user interface
Write administrative portlets to manage any custom channel
Administrators can use administration portlets to grant delegated administration status to specified users. Portal Server provides a sample set of administration portlets that can be used to design a basic Desktop for delegated administrators.
For more information see Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Developer Sample Guide and Tag Library for Delegated Administration.