Using the psadmin Command-line Interface

Portal Server software provides a command-line interface (CLI). The CLI allows portal administrators to do the following:

• 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.

If you installed Portal Server on Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 or GlassFish V2 web containers, you must start either of these web container administration servers and cacao before you invoke psadmin commands.

For information about all psadmin subcommands, see the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 Command-Line Reference.