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| Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 Deployment Guide |
About This GuideThis guide explains how to plan for and deploy Sun™ ONE Portal Server Release 6.0. Portal Server provides a platform to create portals for your organization's integrated data, knowledge management, and applications. The Portal Server platform offers a complete infrastructure solution for building and deploying all types of portals, including business-to-business, business-to-employee, and business-to-consumer.
This preface includes the following sections:
- Who Should Read This Book
- What You Need to Know
- How This Book Is Organized
- Document Conventions Used in This Guide
- Where to Find Related Information
- Where to Find This Guide Online
Who Should Read This Book
You should read this guide if you are responsible for deploying Portal Server at your site.
What You Need to Know
Before you deploy Portal Server, you must be familiar with the following concepts:
- Basic Solaris™ administrative procedures
- HTML
- iPlanet™ Directory Server Access Management Edition (now known as Sun™ ONE Identity Server)
- JavaServer Pages™ technology
- LDAP
- Sun™ ONE Directory Server
- Sun™ ONE Web Server
- XML
How This Book Is Organized
This book contains the following chapters and appendices:
- About This Guide (this chapter)
- Chapter 1 "Overview of Sun ONE Portal Server"
This chapter describes the basic ideas you need to understand before designing your portal.
- Chapter 2 "Sun ONE Portal Server Core Architecture"
This chapter describes the architecture, protocols, interfaces, directory structure, deployment, and customization of the core Portal Server 6.0 product.
- Chapter 3 "Sun ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access Architecture"
This chapter describes the Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access architecture, including the key components of Secure Remote Access with respect to their role in providing secure remote access to corporate intranet resources from outside the intranet (for example, through the Internet).
- Chapter 4 "Analyzing Your Portal Requirements"
This chapter describes how to analyze your organization's needs and requirements that lead to designing your portal deployment.
- Chapter 5 "Sizing Your Portal"
This chapter describes how to establish a baseline sizing figure for your portal. With a baseline figure established, you can then refine that figure to account for scalability, high availability, reliability, and good performance.
- Chapter 6 "Understanding the Portal Deployment Process"
This chapter provides on overview of the portal deployment process.
- Chapter 7 "Creating Your Portal Design"
This chapter describes how to create a high-level and low-level portal design, and provides information on creating specific sections of your design plan.
- Chapter 8 "Monitoring and Tuning Your Portal"
This chapter describes how to monitor and tune your portal.
- Appendix A "Troubleshooting Your Portal Deployment"
This appendix describes how to troubleshoot Portal Server and Secure Remote Access.
- Appendix B "Portal Deployment Worksheets"
This appendix provides various worksheets to help in the deployment process.
- Appendix C "Sun ONE Portal Server and Application Servers"
This appendix provides an overview of Portal Server and its support for various application servers.
- Appendix D "Sun ONE Portal Server Quick Start"
This appendix provides the tasks you need to get started using Sun ONE Portal Server.
Document Conventions Used in This Guide
Monospaced Font
Monospaced font is used for any text that appears on the computer screen or text that you should type. It is also used for file names, distinguished names, functions, and examples.
Bold Monospaced Font
Bold monospaced font is used to represent text within a code example that you should type. For example, you might see something like this:
./pssetup
*******************************************************************Sun(TM) One Portal Server (6.0 release)
*******************************************************************
Installation log at /var/sadm/install/logs/ipsinstall.13343/install.log
This product will run without a license. However, you must either purchase a Binary Code License from, or accept the terms of a Binary Software Evaluation license with, Sun Microsystems, to legally use this product.
Do you accept? yes/[no]
In this example, ./pssetup is what you would type from the command line and the rest is what would appear as a result.
Italicized Font
An italicized font is used to represent text that you enter using information that is unique to your installation (for example, variables). It is used for server paths and names and account IDs.
Square or Straight Brackets
Square (or straight) brackets [] are used to enclose optional parameters. For example, in the Portal Server documentation, you will see the usage for the dpadmin command described as follows:
dpadmin list|modify|add|remove [command-specific options]
The presence of [command-specific] indicates that there are optional parameters that can be added to the dpadmin command.
Command-Line Prompts
Command-line prompts (for example, % for a C-Shell, or $ for a Korn or Bourne shell) are not displayed in the examples. Depending on which operating system environment you are using, you will see a variety of different command-line prompts. However, you should enter the command as it appears in the document unless specifically noted otherwise.
Where to Find Related Information
In addition to this guide, Portal Server comes with supplementary information for administrators as well as documentation for developers. Use the following URL to view all the Portal Server documentation:
http://docs.sun.com/prod/s1portalsrv
Listed below are the additional documents that are available:
- Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 Administrator's Guide
- Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 Developer's Guide
- Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 Installation Guide
- Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 Migration Guide
- Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 Release Notes
- Sun ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access 6.0 Administrator's Guide
- Sun ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access 6.0 Installation Guide
- Sun ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access 6.0 Release Notes
- Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 Installation Supplement for Sun ONE Application Server 7.0
- Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 Installation Supplement for IBM Application Server
- Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 Installation Supplement for BEA Application Server
Where to Find This Guide Online
You can find the Sun ONE Portal Server 6.0 Deployment Guide online in PDF and HTML formats. This book can be found at the following URL: