22 Manage Oracle WebCenter Portal
Oracle WebCenter Portal brings you the very latest technology for portals, social networking, communication, collaboration, and personal productivity. This chapter describes typical configuration and administrative tasks you can perform to manage WebCenter Portal.
This chapter includes the following sections:
WebCenter Portal Home Page
Use the home page to view general information about WebCenter Portal. This is your starting place for managing WebCenter Portal.
Home Page Components | Description |
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WebCenter Portal Menu |
Menu options for WebCenter Portal enable you to: |
Performance Graphs |
Key performance metrics for WebCenter Portal shown graphically. See at a glance:
Click Table View to drill down to more detailed metric data. |
WebCenter Portal Services |
Key performance metrics for WebCenter Portal tools and services. Use the table to quickly see which tools and services are up and running, and to review individual and relative performances of those services used by WebCenter Portal. Click the name of a service to drill down to more detailed metric data. See also, Service Metrics. |
Related Components |
Information and direct links to various components used by WebCenter Portal. |
Related Topics
Understanding WebCenter Portal Metric Collection
Understanding the Key Performance Metrics
Using Key Performance Metric Data to Analyze and Diagnose System Health
Customizing Key Performance Metric Thresholds and Metric Collection
WebCenter Portal Service Configuration Page
Use the WebCenter Portal Service Configuration page to configure content repositories, external applications, portlet producers and other back-end services for WebCenter Portal.
Note:
All configuration changes are stored in the MDS repository.
This page enables you to perform the following tasks:
Add New Portlet Producer Page
Use the Add New Portlet Producer page to register a portlet producer or pagelet producer with WebCenter Portal.
Note:
All configuration changes are stored in the MDS repository.
This page enables you to perform the following tasks:
Edit Selected Portlet Producer Page
Use the Edit Selected Portlet Producer page to update details of the selected portlet producer or pagelet producer.
This page enable you to perform the following tasks:
Application Settings
Use the Application Settings page to configure application-level settings for WebCenter Portal:
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BPEL Server - Specify the BPEL server connection details to configure the workflow and notification functionality. More
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WebCenter Portal Workflows - Choose whether the BPEL server should be used for WebCenter Portal workflows. More
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Notifications - Configure how to route notifications. More
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Search Crawlers - Choose whether Oracle SES crawlers return search results in WebCenter Portal. More
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Search Configuration - Fine-tune search settings. More
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Proxy Server - Configure a proxy server to enable external RSS news feeds. More
Updates to this configuration are stored in the MDS repository. You will need to restart the managed server on which the application is deployed for configuration changes to take effect.
Portlet Producer Page
Use the Portlet Producer page to navigate to existing portlet producer and pagelet producer deployments. The table on this page lists all producers deployed on the WC_Portlets
managed server, for example:
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portalTools
- OmniPortlet -
wsrp-tools
- WSRP Tools -
pagelet-producer
- Pagelet Producer
To access detailed deployment information, select a producer target in the table.
For more information, see Managing Portlet Producers.
Analytics Page
Use the Analytics page to monitor and manage the analytics collector deployed on the WC_Portal
managed server. To access detailed application deployment information, select the analytics-collector
target.
See also, Managing Analytics.
Discussions Page
Note:
Beginning with 12c (12.2.1.3), Oracle WebCenter Portal has deprecated support for Jive features (announcements and discussions). If you are upgrading from a prior release, these features remain available only to support your existing portals that use announcements and discussions. Oracle recommends that you do not use these features in new portals.Use the Discussions page to monitor and manage the discussions server application deployed on the WC_Collaboration
managed server.
To access detailed application deployment information, select the owc_discussions
target. To test the deployment or to access the discussion server's Web application, click the URL in the Web Modules section. This opens the Web application home page for the discussions server.
To access the Admin Console, navigate to http://host:port/owc_discussions/admin
.
See also, Managing Discussions and Announcement.