Chapter 16 Configuring Back-end Services

This supplement contains information on configuring back-end services for certain collaboration portlets.

Configuring Back-end Services for Portlets

Certain service portlets in the Communities Sample require certain back-end services to be setup and configured prior to installing and configuring the portlet. These back-end services are Sun Java System Calendar Server and Sun Delegated Administration software. You can use an existing deployment or, choose to perform a fresh install and configuration of these services. The Calendar Server, Delegated Administration software, and Portal Server software must use the same Directory Server.

To Configure Back-end Services for Portlets

Steps

1. See detailed documentation for configuring Calendar Server at II Postinstallation Configuration in Sun Java System Calendar Server 6 2005Q4 Administration Guide.

2. See detailed documentation for configuring Delegated Administration software at Sun Java System Communications Services 6 2005Q4 Delegated Administrator Guide.

3. Enable Proxy authentication in Calendar Server.

   1. Edit CS-config-directory/ics.conf file (where CS-config-file is by default /etc/opt/SUNWics5/config/ directory) and change the value of service.http.allowadminproxy property to yes.

   2. Restart the Calendar Server.

4. Gather the following information before deploying the portlets.

   UGRoot Suffix

   This is the ser/Group Root suffix of the Directory Server. This information is provided while running the commds_setup.pl script.

   CSUGRoot Suffix

   This is the UGRoot suffix under which the calendar users are created by default. It is under this suffix, the calendar admin user (calmaster) is created. It is important to choose this suffix appropriately such that the calendar admin user is able to proxy-authenticate other calendar users in other organizations. It is recommended that this suffix be the same as UGRoot Suffix. Here, this specifies the value of Base Distinguished Node configuration input while configuring Calendar Server.

   DA Default Domain

   This is the DNS domain name of the default organization used by Delegated Administration software (for provisioning users by default). Here, this specifies the value of Default Domain configuration input while configuring Delegated Administration software.

   DA Default Organization DN

   The Organization distinguished node will be the LDAP subtree under which all the users and groups that belong to the Delegated Administration software Default Domain are located. Note that the distinguished node must be located under the UGRoot Suffix. Here, this specifies the value of Organization Distinguished Node for the Default domain configuration input while configuring Delegated Administration software.