Multiple Portals

Portal Server supports multiple portals using a single user repository. You can design, deploy, and administer each portal independently. Setting up multiple portals allows administrators to do the following:

• Deploy multiple portals and portal server instances on one or more hosts

• Use Access Manager software to manage users for all portals

• Provide different content for different portals

• Offer single sign-on (SSO) between portals

• Enable users to customize their desktops for each portal

To manage users, portal administrators use tools provided by Access Manager. User data in LDAP directories does not need to be synchronized with any other repository.

A portal is a collection of one or more Portal Server instances that deliver the same content and are mapped to a single URL. The content and services delivered by a portal are common to all of its instances.

A Portal Server instance is a web application deployed into a web container, using a particular portal context URI and serving requests on a specific network port. Each Portal Server instance is associated with a single portal.

Multiple portals share the same user repository, or Access Manager. These portals can be deployed on one or more hosts. Portals that use different Access Managers are not multiple portals.