About the Browser Interface

The management console's user interface arranges administration functions into pages. Across the top of each page is a tab strip. The tabs present pages that group management functions in an organized manner. To navigate from page to page, administrators click a tab. The tabs provided are the following:

• Common Tasks – Displays links that provide direct access to tasks that portal administrators frequently perform

• Portals – Lists deployed portals by their portal IDs so that portal administrators can select a specific portal

• Search Server – Lists names of specific search servers so that portal administrators can access pages for managing a specific search server

• Secure Remote Access – Allows portal administrators to manage how remote users securely access a portal and its services over the Internet

• SSO Adapter – Allows portal administrators to manage how end users gain authenticated access to applications after signing in once

• Delegation — Allows portal administrators to delegate the responsibility for managing various resources to other individuals, called delegated administrators.

Portal Server administrators can provide and limit access to content on a portal through the definitions of the identities of specific end users. You can set up portal pages, attributes and access policies so that portal content is available to specific entities. These entities include the following:

• A specific organization

• A specific suborganization

• A role

• An individual end-user