Administering virtual portals

View information to help you scope the HCL WebSphere Portal to have multiple virtual portals.

Note: Before creating or administering virtual portals, read the information in Plan for virtual portals. Administering virtual portals and their content comprises the following tasks:

• Administering the portal content and resources for virtual portals

• Administering the users for virtual portals

• Administering content and search with virtual portals

We can use the following tools to administer your virtual portals:

• The Virtual Portal Manager administration portlet
• Command line tools as follows:

  • We can use portal configuration tasks for administering virtual portals.

  • We can use the XML configuration interface to work with virtual portals.

The following table shows how we can use these portal tools to administer virtual portals:

Administrative task	Portlet for this task	Configuration task	XML configuration interface
Configure the sub-administrators for a virtual portal	Access control portlets	---	X
Create a virtual portal	Virtual Portal Manager	X	---
Filling a virtual portal with initial content	Virtual Portal Manager	---	X
Listing all virtual portals	Virtual Portal Manager	X	---
Modify a virtual portal	Virtual Portal Manager	X	---
Delete a virtual portal	Virtual Portal Manager	X	---

Note: The following two administrative tasks are manual tasks:

• Configure the the user repository for the virtual portal
• Preconfiguring virtual portals

The following sections provide more information about these administrative tasks and how you perform them. The portal configuration tasks for administering virtual portals are documented under Portal configuration tasks for administering virtual portals.

• Administering the portal content and resources for virtual portals

• Tasks for administering virtual portals
• Portal configuration tasks for administering virtual portals
• The XML configuration interface
• XML configuration interface