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
  
• WebCenter Portal Service Configuration Page
  
• Add New Portlet Producer Page
  
• Edit Selected Portlet Producer Page
  
• Application Settings
  
• Portlet Producer Page
  
• Analytics Page
  
• Discussions Page
  

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
WebCenter Portal Menu	Menu options for WebCenter Portal enable you to: Start and stop WebCenter Portal Configure the BPEL server used for WebCenter Portal workflows Manage back-end content repositories for WebCenter Portal Manage back-end services for WebCenter Portal Configure external applications for WebCenter Portal Manage portlet producers Monitor performance Analyze diagnostic information Export and import WebCenter Portal Server (All portals) Configure security policies and roles
Performance Graphs	Key performance metrics for WebCenter Portal shown graphically. See at a glance: WebCenter Portal Metrics - Recent performance and availability data. Recent CPU and Memory Usage - Recent CPU and heap memory usage by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). WebLogic Server Metrics - Recent server health. Security Metrics - Recent and historical performance metrics. Response and Load - Average page response (in ms) for all portals. The number of invocations per minute is also displayed to help you determine why the average page processing time is increasing or decreasing. Most Active Portals (last 24 hours) - Five most popular portals, that is, portals recording the most invocations. Click More Info to see additional information for these portals and for any other portals being used. See also, Portal Metrics. 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:

• Manage content repositories

• Manage tools and services

• Configure external applications

• Manage portlet producers

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:

• Register WSRP Producers

• Register Oracle PDK-Java Producers

• Register Pagelet Producers

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:

• Edit WSRP Producers

• Edit Oracle PDK-Java Producers

• Edit Pagelet Producers

Application Settings

Use the Application Settings page to configure application-level settings for WebCenter Portal:

• BPEL Server - Specify the BPEL server connection details to configure the workflow and notification functionality. More

• WebCenter Portal Workflows - Choose whether the BPEL server should be used for WebCenter Portal workflows. More

• Notifications - Configure how to route notifications. More

• Search Crawlers - Choose whether Oracle SES crawlers return search results in WebCenter Portal. More

• Search Configuration - Fine-tune search settings. More

• 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:

• 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:

Oracle WebCenter Portal has deprecated the support for Jive features (announcements and discussions). If you have upgraded from a prior release to Release 12c (12.2.1.4.0), Jive features remain available in your upgraded instance but Oracle support is not provided for these features. In the next release, Jive features will not be available even in the upgraded instances

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 Announcements and Discussions.