Contents

List of Examples

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in Oracle Portal?

• New Features in Oracle Portal 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)
• New Features in OracleAS Portal 10g Release 2 (10.1.4)

Part I Concepts

1 Understanding the Oracle Portal Architecture

• 1.1 Understand the Oracle Portal Components
  • 1.1.1 What Are the Middle-Tier Components?
  • 1.1.2 What Are the Infrastructure Components?
• 1.2 Understanding the Oracle Portal Architecture
  • 1.2.1 How Does Oracle Portal Integrate with Other Components?
  • 1.2.2 How Do the Pieces Fit Together?
    • 1.2.2.1 How Are Pages Assembled in Oracle Portal?
    • 1.2.2.2 How Does Communication Flow in Oracle Portal?
• 1.3 Understanding Caching in Oracle Portal
  • 1.3.1 Understanding Oracle Web Cache
  • 1.3.2 Understanding Portal Cache
  • 1.3.3 Understanding Cache Invalidation in Oracle Portal
• 1.4 Understanding WSRP and JPS
• 1.5 What's Next?

2 Planning Your Oracle Portal

• 2.1 What Do I Need to Consider?
  • 2.1.1 Which Topology Is Right for Me?
  • 2.1.2 How Much Hardware Do I Need?
  • 2.1.3 How Can I Maximize Performance?
  • 2.1.4 How Can I Make My Portal Scale?
  • 2.1.5 How Can I Make My Portal Highly Available?
  • 2.1.6 How Can I Secure My Portal?
  • 2.1.7 How Should I Configure My Hardware and Software?
    • 2.1.7.1 Using a Single Computer
    • 2.1.7.2 Using Multiple Computers
  • 2.1.8 Getting the Most Out of Your Configuration
    • 2.1.8.1 Load Balancing
    • 2.1.8.2 Failover and Redundancy
    • 2.1.8.3 Scalability
• 2.2 What Do I Need to Do?
  • 2.2.1 Planning Your Portal
  • 2.2.2 Upgrading Oracle Portal
  • 2.2.3 Verifying Pre-Installation Requirements
  • 2.2.4 Installing Oracle Fusion Middleware
  • 2.2.5 Performing Post-Installation Configuration
  • 2.2.6 Performing Advanced Configuration
  • 2.2.7 Securing Oracle Portal
  • 2.2.8 Monitoring Oracle Portal
  • 2.2.9 Troubleshooting Oracle Portal

Part II Installation and Basic Configuration

3 Pre-Installation and Post-Installation Tasks

• 3.1 Installation Overview
  • 3.1.1 WebLogic Server Installation
  • 3.1.2 Infrastructure Component Installation
  • 3.1.3 Oracle Fusion Middleware Middle-tier Release Installation
  • 3.1.4 Installation Components and Versions
• 3.2 Accessing Oracle Portal After Installation
• 3.3 Configuring Oracle Portal During and After Installation

4 Interoperability Scenarios

5 Basic Configuration and Administration

• 5.1 Getting Started with Oracle Portal Administration
  • 5.1.1 Using the Oracle Portal Administer Tab
  • 5.1.2 Using Additional Administrative Tools
    • 5.1.2.1 Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Fusion Middleware Control
    • 5.1.2.2 WebLogic ScriptingTool (WLST) Command-line Utility
    • 5.1.2.3 Portal Installation and Configuration Scripts
• 5.2 Finding Out Information About Oracle Portal
  • 5.2.1 Accessing Oracle Portal in Your Browser
  • 5.2.2 Finding Your Oracle Portal Version Number
• 5.3 Performing Basic Page Administration
  • 5.3.1 Setting a Default Home Page
    • 5.3.1.1 Setting the System Default Home Page
    • 5.3.1.2 Setting a Group's Default Home Page
    • 5.3.1.3 Setting a User's Default Home Page
  • 5.3.2 Setting the System Default Style
  • 5.3.3 Creating Personal Pages
    • 5.3.3.1 Automatically Creating a Personal Page for New Users
    • 5.3.3.2 Creating a Personal Page for an Existing User
  • 5.3.4 Setting the Total Space Allocated for Uploaded Files
  • 5.3.5 Setting the Maximum File Size for Uploaded Files
  • 5.3.6 Changing the Page Group Quota
  • 5.3.7 Specifying E-mail (SMTP) Host
  • 5.3.8 Specifying an Error Message Page
  • 5.3.9 Specifying an Error Reporting Style
  • 5.3.10 Setting the Default Page for Non-Authenticated Users
  • 5.3.11 Specifying the Default DOCTYPE for Pages
  • 5.3.12 Removing the Context-Sensitive Help Link
• 5.4 Configuring Self-Registration
• 5.5 Setting Up Oracle BPEL Process Definitions for Approvals
  • 5.5.1 Synchronizing BPEL Workflow with Portal Workflow
    • 5.5.1.1 Deploying the Call Back WebService
    • 5.5.1.2 Configuring Portal for BPEL
  • 5.5.2 Securing your Portal for BPEL Business Process
    • 5.5.2.1 Configuring Outbond SSL to BPEL Server
    • 5.5.2.2 BPEL Server Callback to Portal
  • 5.5.3 Creating a New BPEL Process Definition
  • 5.5.4 Editing an Existing BPEL Process Definition
  • 5.5.5 Deleting an Existing BPEL Process Definition
  • 5.5.6 Oracle Portal Message Schema
  • 5.5.7 BPEL Callback Webservice Proxy
• 5.6 Performing Basic Portal Administration
  • 5.6.1 Simplifying the Full URL of an Oracle Portal Instance
  • 5.6.2 Configuring Oracle HTTP Server to Use the Oracle Portal Home Page
  • 5.6.3 Stopping and Starting Portal Components Using Fusion Middleware Control
  • 5.6.4 Configuring a Portal DAD Using Fusion Middleware Control
  • 5.6.5 Configuring a Portal DAD Using WLST
    • 5.6.5.1 Creating a Portal DAD
    • 5.6.5.2 Updating Portal Dad
    • 5.6.5.3 Deleting Portal DAD
    • 5.6.5.4 listing a DAD
  • 5.6.6 Configuring the Portal Cache Using Fusion Middleware Control
  • 5.6.7 Configuring the Portal Cache Using WLST
  • 5.6.8 Clearing the Portal Cache
  • 5.6.9 Configuring the Portal Parallel Page Engine
    • 5.6.9.1 Setting PPE Configuration Parameters
    • 5.6.9.2 Configuring the Parallel Page Engine Using WLST
  • 5.6.10 Retrieving the Portal Schema Password
  • 5.6.11 Using a Custom Image Directory
• 5.7 Configuring Mobile Support in Oracle Portal
  • 5.7.1 Installing Oracle Application Server Wireless
  • 5.7.2 Patching OracleAS Single Sign-On for Oracle Portal Mobile Access
  • 5.7.3 Configuring Mobile Settings in Oracle Portal
    • 5.7.3.1 Enabling Mobile Access
    • 5.7.3.2 Configuring Mobile Home Pages
    • 5.7.3.3 Displaying Page Titles in Mobile Banner Links
    • 5.7.3.4 Displaying Enhanced Page Layouts on PDAs
    • 5.7.3.5 Logging Mobile Responses
  • 5.7.4 Configuring Mobile Access
    • 5.7.4.1 Configuring the Oracle Portal Home Page URL References
    • 5.7.4.2 Configuring the OracleAS Wireless Portal Service URL Reference
  • 5.7.5 Changing the Mobile Device Component of the Cache Key
• 5.8 Managing Users, Groups, and Passwords
• 5.9 Configuring Browser Settings
• 5.10 Configuring Language Support
  • 5.10.1 Installing Languages After Installing Oracle Portal
  • 5.10.2 Enabling the Use of Territories
• 5.11 Configuring Oracle Portal for WebDAV
  • 5.11.1 Performing Basic WebDAV Configuration
  • 5.11.2 Setting Up a WebDAV Client
  • 5.11.3 WebDAV Clients and SSL
  • 5.11.4 Checking the Version of OraDAV Drivers
  • 5.11.5 Checking version of oraDAV
  • 5.11.6 Viewing Errors
• 5.12 Configuring Resource Proxying

Part III Advanced Configuration Topics

6 Advanced Configuration

• 6.1 Changing Oracle Fusion Middleware Listen Ports
• 6.2 Configuring SSL
• 6.3 Configuring Multiple Middle Tiers with a Load–Balancing Router
  • 6.3.1 Step 1: Install a Single Portal Middle Tier (M1)
  • 6.3.2 Step 2: Configure Oracle Portal on M1 to Be Accessed Through the LBR
  • 6.3.3 Step 3: Confirm That Oracle Portal is Up and Running
  • 6.3.4 Step 4: Install a New Portal (M2)
  • 6.3.5 Step 5: Configure the New Middle Tier (M2) to Run Your Existing Portal
  • 6.3.6 Step 6: Configure Portal Tools and Web Providers (Optional)
  • 6.3.7 Step 7: Enable Session Binding on Oracle Web Cache
  • 6.3.8 Step 8: Confirm the Completed Configuration
• 6.4 Configuring Virtual Hosts
  • 6.4.1 Create Virtual Hosts
    • 6.4.1.1 Create the Virtual Host for www.xyz.com
    • 6.4.1.2 Create the Virtual Host for www.abc.com
    • 6.4.1.3 Verify the httpd.conf File
    • 6.4.1.4 Verify That the Virtual Hosts Are Configured Correctly
  • 6.4.2 Configure Oracle Web Cache
  • 6.4.3 Register Oracle Portal with OracleAS Single Sign-On
  • 6.4.4 Verify the Configuration
  • 6.4.5 Reconfiguring Portal for a Change in the OracleAS Single Sign-On 10g Host Name
• 6.5 Configuring Oracle Portal to Use a Proxy Server
• 6.6 Configuring Oracle Portal to Work with a Reverse Proxy Server
• 6.7 Managing Oracle Portal Content Cached in Oracle Web Cache
  • 6.7.1 Managing Oracle Web Cache
  • 6.7.2 Configuring Portal Web Cache Settings Using Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • 6.7.3 Configuring Portal Web Cache Settings Using WLST
    • 6.7.3.1 Listing the Attributes
    • 6.7.3.2 Updating the Attributes
  • 6.7.4 Managing Portal Content Cached in Oracle Web Cache
    • 6.7.4.1 Clearing the Entire Web Cache
    • 6.7.4.2 Clearing the Cache for a Particular User
    • 6.7.4.3 Setting the Expiry Time for Invalidation-based Caching
    • 6.7.4.4 Clearing the Cache for a Particular Portal Object
  • 6.7.5 Clearing the Cache Invalidation Queue Through SQL*Plus
  • 6.7.6 Managing the Invalidation Message Processing Job
• 6.8 Configuring Oracle Portal to Use a Dedicated Oracle Web Cache Instance
  • 6.8.1 Understanding Installation Prerequisites and Requirements
  • 6.8.2 Configuring a Dedicated Oracle Web Cache
    • 6.8.2.1 Task 1: Verify That the Oracle Web Cache on the Dedicated Server Is Running
    • 6.8.2.2 Task 2: Configure Oracle Web Cache on the Dedicated Server
    • 6.8.2.3 Task 3: Stop the Unused Oracle Web Cache on the Middle-Tier Server
    • 6.8.2.4 Task 4: Configure Oracle Portal Middle Tier with Oracle Web Cache Settings
    • 6.8.2.5 Task 5: Configure Virtual Host Settings for Oracle HTTP Server
    • 6.8.2.6 Task 6: Re-Registering the Oracle HTTP Server Partner Application
• 6.9 Changing the Infrastructure Services Used By a Middle Tier
• 6.10 Configuring the Cluster Environment After Installation
  • 6.10.1 Middle Tier Configuration
  • 6.10.2 Repository Configuration
• 6.11 Configuring OracleAS Wireless
• 6.12 Changing the Oracle Portal Schema Password
  • 6.12.1 Changing the Schema Password for a Default Oracle Portal Instance
  • 6.12.2 Changing the Portal Credentials
    • 6.12.2.1 Managing Portal Credentials Using Oracle Enterprise Manager
    • 6.12.2.2 Managing Portal Credentials Using WLST Commands
  • 6.12.3 Changing the Schema Password for a Nondefault Oracle Portal Instance
• 6.13 Configuring Oracle Portal Using WLST
  • 6.13.1 Configuring Portal Middle Tier
  • 6.13.2 Configuring Portal Site Attributes
  • 6.13.3 Configuring Portal Oracle Internet Directory Attributes
    • 6.13.3.1 Listing the Attributes
    • 6.13.3.2 Updating the Attributes

7 Securing Oracle Portal

• 7.1 About Oracle Portal Security
  • 7.1.1 Oracle Portal Security Model
  • 7.1.2 Classes of Users and Their Privileges
    • 7.1.2.1 Oracle Portal Default, Seeded User Accounts
    • 7.1.2.2 Oracle Portal Default, Seeded Groups
    • 7.1.2.3 Oracle Portal Default Schemas
  • 7.1.3 Resources Protected
    • 7.1.3.1 Global Privileges
    • 7.1.3.2 Object Privileges
    • 7.1.3.3 Granting Privileges to New Providers
    • 7.1.3.4 Privileges to Edit Web Providers and Provider Groups
    • 7.1.3.5 Privileges to Create and Edit WSRP Producers
    • 7.1.3.6 Privileges to Edit URL and XML Portlets in the Portlet Repository
  • 7.1.4 Authorization and Access Enforcement
  • 7.1.5 Authorization Modification
    • 7.1.5.1 Secure Network Aware Authorization Modifiers
    • 7.1.5.2 Default Authorization Modifier
    • 7.1.5.3 Page View and Edit Authorization Modifier
    • 7.1.5.4 Defining Required Page Attributes for use with Authorization Modifiers
  • 7.1.6 Leveraging Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Services
  • 7.1.7 Leveraging Oracle Identity Management Infrastructure
    • 7.1.7.1 Relationship Between Oracle Portal and OracleAS Single Sign-On
    • 7.1.7.2 Relationship Between Oracle Portal and Oracle Access Manager
    • 7.1.7.3 Relationship Between Oracle Portal and Oracle Internet Directory
    • 7.1.7.4 Relationship Between Oracle Portal and Oracle Directory Integration Platform
    • 7.1.7.5 Relationship Between Oracle Portal and Oracle Delegated Administration Services
    • 7.1.7.6 User Portlet
    • 7.1.7.7 Portal User Profile Portlet
    • 7.1.7.8 Group Portlet
    • 7.1.7.9 Portal Group Profile Portlet
    • 7.1.7.10 Oracle Delegated Administration Services Public Roles
  • 7.1.8 Configuring Dynamic Groups
    • 7.1.8.1 Defining the Dynamic Group
    • 7.1.8.2 Using a Dynamic Group to Secure a Page
  • 7.1.9 Security for Portlets
    • 7.1.9.1 Authentication
    • 7.1.9.2 Authorization
    • 7.1.9.3 Communication Security
    • 7.1.9.4 Access Control Lists
    • 7.1.9.5 Oracle Portal Server Authentication
    • 7.1.9.6 Securing the Portal Tools Provider Configuration Pages
    • 7.1.9.7 Single Sign-On
    • 7.1.9.8 Programmatic Portlet Security
    • 7.1.9.9 Message Authentication
    • 7.1.9.10 HTTPS Communication
    • 7.1.9.11 Configuration of SSL
  • 7.1.10 Securing Access to Web Services Remote Portlets
    • 7.1.10.1 Setting Up the Keystores
    • 7.1.10.2 Configuring the Producer
  • 7.1.11 Securing the OmniPortlet and Simple Parameter Form
  • 7.1.12 Securing the Web Clipping Provider
    • 7.1.12.1 Adding Certificates for Trusted Sites
    • 7.1.12.2 Configuring Oracle Advanced Security for the Web Clipping Provider
  • 7.1.13 Securing the Federated Portal Adapter
  • 7.1.14 Securing OraDAV
    • 7.1.14.1 Session Cookie Expiration
    • 7.1.14.2 SSL and OraDAV
    • 7.1.14.3 Encrypting a Password in MOD_ORADAV.CONF
• 7.2 Configuring Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Framework for Oracle Portal
  • 7.2.1 Configuring Fusion Middleware Security Framework Options for Oracle Portal
  • 7.2.2 Configuring Oracle Identity Management Options for Oracle Portal
    • 7.2.2.1 Setting the Appropriate Naming and Nickname Attributes
    • 7.2.2.2 Defining a Role for Oracle Portal Installers
• 7.3 Configuring Oracle Portal Security
  • 7.3.1 Configuring Oracle Portal Security Options
    • 7.3.1.1 Changing Settings on the Global Settings Page
    • 7.3.1.2 Enforcing Role-Based Access Control
    • 7.3.1.3 Configuring Provider Message Authentication
  • 7.3.2 Configuring Options for Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Framework
    • 7.3.2.1 Configuring SSL for Oracle Portal
    • 7.3.2.2 Securing the Connection to Oracle Internet Directory (Optional)
    • 7.3.2.3 Post-Installation Security Checklist
  • 7.3.3 Configuring Oracle Portal Options for Database Security

8 Monitoring and Administering Oracle Portal

• 8.1 Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Fusion Middleware Control
• 8.2 Using Fusion Middleware Control to Monitor and Administer Oracle Portal
  • 8.2.1 Portal Home Page Overview
    • 8.2.1.1 Page Response Time Portlet
    • 8.2.1.2 Page Response Codes Statistics Portlet
    • 8.2.1.3 Popular Producers Portlet
    • 8.2.1.4 Related Components Portlet
    • 8.2.1.5 Producers Portlet
    • 8.2.1.6 Resource Center Portlet
    • 8.2.1.7 Page Engine Statistics Portlet
  • 8.2.2 Administrating and Monitoring from the Oracle Home Page
    • 8.2.2.1 Performance Metrics Page
    • 8.2.2.2 Performance Summary Page
    • 8.2.2.3 Configure Database Access Descriptor Page
    • 8.2.2.4 Portal Cache Configuration Page
    • 8.2.2.5 Page Engine Configuration Page
    • 8.2.2.6 Portal Wire Configuration Page
    • 8.2.2.7 Logs
  • 8.2.3 Topology Tab
• 8.3 Viewing Oracle Portal Activity Reports
  • 8.3.1 Logged Events
  • 8.3.2 Choosing Which Events Are Logged
  • 8.3.3 Activity Log Views
  • 8.3.4 Accessing Activity Log Views Externally
• 8.4 Viewing Oracle Fusion Middleware Port Usage
• 8.5 Defining Oracle Enterprise Manager Administration Roles
• 8.6 About the Oracle Fusion Middleware System MBean Browser
  • 8.6.1 When should I use the Oracle Fusion Middleware System MBean Browser?
  • 8.6.2 About Portal Configuration MBeans

9 Configuring the Search Features in Oracle Portal

• 9.1 Search Options in Oracle Portal
  • 9.1.1 Oracle Portal Search
  • 9.1.2 Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
  • 9.1.3 Default Search Functionality
  • 9.1.4 Deciding Which Search Options to Use
  • 9.1.5 Differences Between Oracle Secure Enterprise Search and Oracle Portal Search
• 9.2 Configuring Oracle Portal Search Options
  • 9.2.1 Configuring Oracle Portal Search Portlets
    • 9.2.1.1 Choosing Search Result Pages
    • 9.2.1.2 Limiting the Number of Search Results on a Page
    • 9.2.1.3 Choosing an Advanced Search Link (Basic/Custom Search Portlets)
    • 9.2.1.4 Choosing an Internet Search Engine (Advanced/Custom Search Portlets)
  • 9.2.2 Configuring Oracle Text Options in Oracle Portal
    • 9.2.2.1 Enabling and Disabling Oracle Text in Oracle Portal
    • 9.2.2.2 Setting Oracle Text Search Result Options
    • 9.2.2.3 Setting a Base URL for Oracle Text
    • 9.2.2.4 Configuring Proxy Settings for Oracle Text
  • 9.2.3 Configuring Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Options in Oracle Portal
• 9.3 Oracle Text
  • 9.3.1 Understanding Oracle Portal Searches with Oracle Text Enabled/Disabled
    • 9.3.1.1 Searching With Oracle Text Disabled
    • 9.3.1.2 Searching With Oracle Text Enabled
  • 9.3.2 Oracle Text Prerequisites
  • 9.3.3 Oracle Text Indexes
    • 9.3.3.1 Oracle Text Index Overview
    • 9.3.3.2 Oracle Text Index Preferences
    • 9.3.3.3 Datastore Procedures
    • 9.3.3.4 Granting CTXAPP Role to the Oracle Portal Schema
    • 9.3.3.5 Multilingual Functionality (Multilexer)
    • 9.3.3.6 STEM Searching
    • 9.3.3.7 Maximizing AUTO_FILTER Performance
  • 9.3.4 Creating and Dropping Oracle Text Indexes
    • 9.3.4.1 Creating All Oracle Text Indexes Using ctxcrind.sql
    • 9.3.4.2 Creating a Single Oracle Text Index
    • 9.3.4.3 Dropping All Oracle Text Indexes Using ctxdrind.sql
    • 9.3.4.4 Dropping a Single Oracle Text Index
  • 9.3.5 Maintaining Oracle Text Indexes
    • 9.3.5.1 Synchronizing Oracle Text Indexes
    • 9.3.5.2 Synchronizing an Oracle Text Index On Commit
    • 9.3.5.3 Synchronizing All Oracle Text Indexes Manually
    • 9.3.5.4 Scheduling Index Synchronization
    • 9.3.5.5 Deciding How Often to Synchronize Oracle Text Indexes
    • 9.3.5.6 Synchronizing All the Index Content
    • 9.3.5.7 Optimizing Oracle Text Indexes
    • 9.3.5.8 Scheduling Index Optimization
    • 9.3.5.9 Choosing the Optimization Interval
  • 9.3.6 Indexing and Searching URL Content
    • 9.3.6.1 Relative URLs
    • 9.3.6.2 Unsupported URLs
    • 9.3.6.3 Supported URLs
    • 9.3.6.4 URL Index Proxy Settings
  • 9.3.7 Disabling Document and URL Indexing
  • 9.3.8 Viewing the Status of Oracle Text Indexes
  • 9.3.9 Monitoring Oracle Text Indexing Operations
    • 9.3.9.1 Using start_log to Monitor Index Operations
    • 9.3.9.2 Using logcrind.sql to Monitor Index Creation
  • 9.3.10 Viewing Indexing Errors
  • 9.3.11 Translating Indexing Errors to Objects in Oracle Portal
    • 9.3.11.1 Item Indexing Errors
    • 9.3.11.2 Page Indexing Errors
    • 9.3.11.3 Category Index Errors
    • 9.3.11.4 Perspective Indexing Errors
    • 9.3.11.5 Document Index Errors
    • 9.3.11.6 URL Index Errors
  • 9.3.12 Common Indexing Errors
    • 9.3.12.1 Common Document Indexing Errors
    • 9.3.12.2 Common URL Indexing Errors
  • 9.3.13 Handling Indexing Hangs or Crashes
    • 9.3.13.1 Identifying Whether an Index Operation is Hanging
    • 9.3.13.2 Preventing Indexes From Hanging and Crashing
• 9.4 Oracle Secure Enterprise Search
  • 9.4.1 Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Overview
    • 9.4.1.1 About the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Sample Query Applications
    • 9.4.1.2 About Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Configuration
  • 9.4.2 Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Secure Portlet

10 Tuning Performance in Oracle Portal

• 10.1 Setting the Number of Server Processes
• 10.2 Setting the Number of Idle Processes
• 10.3 Setting the Number of PPE Fetchers
• 10.4 Tuning the Oracle HTTP Server
• 10.5 Tuning File System Cache to Improve Caching Performance
• 10.6 Tuning Oracle Net Services

11 Exporting and Importing Content

• 11.1 Introduction Oracle Portal Export or Import
• 11.2 Before You Begin
  • 11.2.1 System Requirements
  • 11.2.2 Additional Considerations
  • 11.2.3 Privileges for Exporting and Importing Content
• 11.3 Examples of Using Export and Import
  • 11.3.1 Case1: Exporting/Importing Between Development and Production Instances
  • 11.3.2 Case 2: Deploying Identical Content Across Multiple Portal Instances
  • 11.3.3 Case 3: Consolidating Content from Multiple Sources
• 11.4 Export in Oracle Portal
  • 11.4.1 Oracle Portal Export - Recommended Method
    • 11.4.1.1 How Does Oracle Portal Export Work?
    • 11.4.1.2 How Do I Manage My Transport Sets?
  • 11.4.2 Oracle Portal Export - Alternate Method
• 11.5 Acquire Transport Set Services
  • 11.5.1 Register a Source Portal
  • 11.5.2 Moving Data to the Target System
• 11.6 Import in Oracle Portal
  • 11.6.1 Oracle Portal Import - Recommended Method
    • 11.6.1.1 Creating a Database Link
    • 11.6.1.2 Importing Data
    • 11.6.1.3 How Do I Manage My Transport Sets (Import)?
• 11.7 Using the Oracle Portal Export and Import Command-line Scripts
  • 11.7.1 Downloading the Command-line Scripts
  • 11.7.2 Running Your Script to Create an Export Dum File
  • 11.7.3 Importing the Transport Set Tables to the Target System
• 11.8 Behavior of Objects After Migration
  • 11.8.1 Behavior of Oracle Portal Objects
    • 11.8.1.1 Page Groups
    • 11.8.1.2 Attributes
    • 11.8.1.3 Approvals
    • 11.8.1.4 Items
    • 11.8.1.5 Pages
    • 11.8.1.6 Regions
    • 11.8.1.7 Portal Templates
    • 11.8.1.8 HTML Templates
    • 11.8.1.9 Categories
    • 11.8.1.10 Perspectives
    • 11.8.1.11 Navigation Pages
    • 11.8.1.12 Styles
    • 11.8.1.13 Item Types
    • 11.8.1.14 Page Types
  • 11.8.2 Import Behavior of Child Objects
  • 11.8.3 Behavior of DB Provider Objects
    • 11.8.3.1 Seeded DB Providers
    • 11.8.3.2 Portal DB Providers
    • 11.8.3.3 Portal DB Provider Components
    • 11.8.3.4 Shared Components
    • 11.8.3.5 Registered Database Providers
  • 11.8.4 Behavior of Portal DB Provider Reports Object Types
  • 11.8.5 Behavior of Web Providers
    • 11.8.5.1 OmniPortlet
    • 11.8.5.2 Web Clipping Providers, WSRP Producers, and Other Web Providers
  • 11.8.6 Behavior of Shared Portlet Instances
• 11.9 Recommended Best Practices When Exporting and Importing
  • 11.9.1 Naming Convention for Replicated Tabs
  • 11.9.2 Migrating Page Groups and Components
  • 11.9.3 Migrating Portal DB Providers and Components
  • 11.9.4 Migrating Search Components
    • 11.9.4.1 Basic and Advanced Search Portlets
    • 11.9.4.2 Custom Search Portlets
  • 11.9.5 Migrating Content Between Upgraded Oracle Portal Instances
  • 11.9.6 Exporting and Importing in a Hosted Environment
  • 11.9.7 Importing Data with Oracle Text Index Synchronization Turned Off
  • 11.9.8 Migrating Users and Groups

12 Using the Federated Portal Adapter

• 12.1 About the Federated Portal Adapter
  • 12.1.1 Overview
  • 12.1.2 Differences Between Database Providers and Web Providers
  • 12.1.3 Use of the Federated Portal Adapter
  • 12.1.4 Security Issues
  • 12.1.5 Federated Portal Adapter Related Portlet Modifications
• 12.2 Setting Up the Environment to Use the Federated Portal Adapter
  • 12.2.1 Checking the PlsqlSessionCookieName Value
  • 12.2.2 Federated Portal Adapter User Authentication Using HMAC
  • 12.2.3 Setting the Cookie Domain
  • 12.2.4 Sharing an OracleAS Single Sign-On and an Oracle Internet Directory Server
• 12.3 Registering a Provider Using the Federated Portal Adapter
• 12.4 Writing Custom Portlets Using the Federated Portal Adapter
  • 12.4.1 Relative Links
  • 12.4.2 Personalization
• 12.5 Troubleshooting Federated Portal Adapter

Part IV Appendixes

A Using Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Files

• A.1 Oracle HTTP Server Configuration File (httpd.conf)
• A.2 DAD Configuration File (portal_dads.conf)
• A.3 Oracle Database Connection Configuration
• A.4 Web Cache Configuration Files
• A.5 OracleAS Single Sign-On's Partner Application Table
• A.6 Local HOSTS File

B Using Oracle Portal Installation and Configuration Scripts

• B.1 Managing the Invalidation Message Processing Job Using cachjsub.sql
• B.2 Configuring for IP Check During Session Cookie Validation
• B.3 Using the secupoid.sql Script
• B.4 Configuring the Portal Session Cookie
  • B.4.1 Configuring the Cookie Name
  • B.4.2 Configuring the Scope of the Cookie
  • B.4.3 Securing the Cookie
• B.5 Managing the Session Cleanup Job
• B.6 Timing and Caching Statistics
  • B.6.1 Portlet Statistics
    • B.6.1.1 Portlet Timing Information
    • B.6.1.2 Portlet Caching Information
  • B.6.2 Page Statistics
  • B.6.3 Additional Summary Statistics
• B.7 Using the cfgiasw Script to Configure Mobile Settings
• B.8 Using the cfgxodnc.pl Script to Change the Mobile Device Component of the Cache Key
  • B.8.1 Adding the PlsqlCGIEnvironmentList Parameter to the portal_dads.conf File
  • B.8.2 Running the cfgxodnc.pl script
  • B.8.3 Adding the useDeviceNameCacheKeys parameter to the PPE Configuration file
  • B.8.4 Clearing Cached Data
• B.9 Using the Category and Perspective Scripts
• B.10 Using the PDK-Java Preference Store Migration and Upgrade Utility
• B.11 Using the Schema Validation Utility
  • B.11.1 Using the Schema Validation Utility with Oracle Portal Export and Import
  • B.11.2 Using the Standalone Schema Validation Utility

C Integrating JavaServer Pages with Oracle Portal

• C.1 Using the JavaServer Page Configuration File
  • C.1.1 Contents of Your JavaServer Page Configuration File
    • C.1.1.1 The <jps> Tag
    • C.1.1.2 The <portal> Tag
    • C.1.1.3 The <database> Tag
    • C.1.1.4 The <url> Tag
    • C.1.1.5 The <cookie> Tag
    • C.1.1.6 The <pageGroups> Tag
    • C.1.1.7 The <pageGroup> Tag
  • C.1.2 Example JavaServer Page Configuration File
  • C.1.3 Location of Your JavaServer Page Configuration File
  • C.1.4 External JavaServer Page Login
• C.2 Setting Up a JAZN File for External Communication
  • C.2.1 Setting Up mod_osso
  • C.2.2 Setting Up JAZN with LDAP

D Using the wwv_context APIs

• D.1 Procedures
  • D.1.1 add_attribute_section
  • D.1.2 commit_sync
  • D.1.3 create_index
  • D.1.4 create_missing_indexes
  • D.1.5 create_prefs
  • D.1.6 createindex
  • D.1.7 drop_all_indexes
  • D.1.8 drop_index
  • D.1.9 drop_invalid_indexes
  • D.1.10 drop_prefs
  • D.1.11 dropindex
  • D.1.12 optimize
  • D.1.13 set_parallel_degree
  • D.1.14 set_sync_memory
  • D.1.15 set_use_doc_index
  • D.1.16 set_use_url_index
  • D.1.17 sync
  • D.1.18 touch_index(p_indexes wwsbr_array)
  • D.1.19 touch_index
  • D.1.20 update_index_prefs
• D.2 Functions
  • D.2.1 checkindex
  • D.2.2 doc_index
  • D.2.3 get_commit_sync
  • D.2.4 get_parallel_degree
  • D.2.5 get_sync_memory
  • D.2.6 get_use_doc_index
  • D.2.7 get_use_url_index
  • D.2.8 valid_doc_index
  • D.2.9 valid_url_index
  • D.2.10 url_index
• D.3 Constants
  • D.3.1 Index Name Constants
  • D.3.2 Oracle Text AUTO_FILTER Format Constants
  • D.3.3 Oracle Text Job Constants
  • D.3.4 URL Unsuitable for Indexing Constant
• D.4 Exceptions

E Configuring the Portal Tools Providers

• E.1 Configuring Web Clipping
  • E.1.1 Configuring the Web Clipping Repository
  • E.1.2 Registering the Web Clipping Provider (PDK Only)
  • E.1.3 Configuring HTTP or HTTPS Proxy Settings
    • E.1.3.1 Restricting Users from Clipping Content from Unauthorized External Web Sites
  • E.1.4 Configuring Caching
    • E.1.4.1 Configuring Caching
• E.2 Configuring OmniPortlet
  • E.2.1 Configuring the OmniPortlet Provider
    • E.2.1.1 Configuring HTTP or HTTPS Proxy Settings
    • E.2.1.2 Configuring the Secured Data Repository (PDK only)
    • E.2.1.3 Configuring Caching (PDK Only)
    • E.2.1.4 Configuring OmniPortlet to Access HTTPS URLs
  • E.2.2 Performing Optional OmniPortlet Configurations
  • E.2.3 Registering the OmniPortlet Provider (PDK Only)
  • E.2.4 Configuring the OmniPortlet Provider to Access Other Relational Databases Using DataDirect JDBC Drivers
    • E.2.4.1 Installing DataDirect JDBC Drivers
    • E.2.4.2 Registering DataDirect Drivers in OmniPortlet

F Setting Up and Maintaining a Virtual Private Portal

• F.1 Overview of Hosting
  • F.1.1 Why Use Hosting?
  • F.1.2 Known Limitations
• F.2 Overview of Steps to Perform for Virtual Private Portals
  • F.2.1 Enabling Hosting
  • F.2.2 Setting Up Users and Groups
  • F.2.3 Adding Subscribers
  • F.2.4 Removing Subscribers
  • F.2.5 Advanced Features
  • F.2.6 Pre-Installation Checklist
  • F.2.7 Using Oracle Directory Manager
• F.3 Enabling Hosting on an Out-of-the-Box Portal
• F.4 ASP Users And Groups
  • F.4.1 Setting Up ASP Users and Groups
  • F.4.2 Restrictions
• F.5 Adding Subscribers
• F.6 Advanced Operations on a Virtual Private Portal
  • F.6.1 Managing ASP Users and Groups
    • F.6.1.1 Password Sync
    • F.6.1.2 Delta (Structure Changes) Sync
    • F.6.1.3 Complete Sync
  • F.6.2 Removing Subscribers
  • F.6.3 Using WebDAV in the Virtual Private Portal
  • F.6.4 Setting Up Directory Integration Platform for the Virtual Private Portal
  • F.6.5 Partially Prepare (Pre-Cook) Subscribers
• F.7 Restrictions
  • F.7.1 Scripts
  • F.7.2 ASP Users/Groups Support
  • F.7.3 Add Subscriber
  • F.7.4 Remove Subscriber
  • F.7.5 Upgrade
• F.8 Parameters for the Scripts

G Troubleshooting Oracle Portal

• G.1 Problems and Solutions
  • G.1.1 Unable to Access Oracle Portal
  • G.1.2 Unable to Log In to Oracle Portal
  • G.1.3 Problems Creating Category or Perspective Pages
  • G.1.4 Problems with Network Address Translation (NAT) Setup
  • G.1.5 User and Group Information in Oracle Portal and Oracle Internet Directory Does Not Match
  • G.1.6 Problems with Oracle Portal Performance
  • G.1.7 Error When Creating Web Folders
  • G.1.8 Create New Users and Create New Groups Portlets Do Not Appear
  • G.1.9 ORA-2000x Errors in the error_log File
  • G.1.10 Remote Web Providers Time Out in a Dynamic DNS Environment
  • G.1.11 Problems Related to Memory-Intense Operations
  • G.1.12 Unable to Create Oracle Text Indexes
  • G.1.13 Problems with MultiLanguage Support for Help
  • G.1.14 Stale Style-Sheet Data Is Displayed on Portal Pages
  • G.1.15 Stale Content Is Displayed on Portal Pages
  • G.1.16 Images Are Not Displayed on Portal Pages
  • G.1.17 Unhandled Exception Errors
  • G.1.18 Problems in Configuring the OmniPortlet Provider
  • G.1.19 Problems in Configuring Oracle Web Cache for the OmniPortlet Provider
  • G.1.20 Problems in Accessing Oracle Portal from a Mobile Device
  • G.1.21 Error During Export and Import After Upgrading from Oracle Portal 3.0.9 or 9.0.4
  • G.1.22 Errors Displayed When the Oracle Portal Language is Traditional Chinese
  • G.1.23 Uploaded Content Is Not Returned in Search
• G.2 Diagnosing Oracle Portal Problems
  • G.2.1 Enabling ECID Logging
  • G.2.2 Generating Trace Files
    • G.2.2.1 Using PlsqlBeforeProcedure and PlsqlAfterProcedure
    • G.2.2.2 Setting the sql_trace Parameter
    • G.2.2.3 Setting Database Event 10046
  • G.2.3 Viewing the Diagnostic Output of Components
    • G.2.3.1 JPDK
    • G.2.3.2 Portal Services
    • G.2.3.3 Parallel Page Engine
    • G.2.3.4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Portal Developer Kit
    • G.2.3.5 Oracle Metadata Repository
    • G.2.3.6 Oracle Web Cache
  • G.2.4 Using Fusion Middleware Control Log Viewer
  • G.2.5 Using Oracle Portal Diagnostics Assistant
  • G.2.6 Analyzing Mobile-Related Problems in Oracle Portal
  • G.2.7 Enabling Performance Logging
• G.3 Need More Help?

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