Portal, V6.1

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Administering WebSphere Portal

Use the administration tools provided with the portal to perform a variety of day-to-day administration tasks. There are two methods for editing portal setup: portlets and the XML configuration interface. The administration portlets are a convenient way to make real-time updates to the portal's configuration, while the XML configuration interface is well suited to more advanced administration, including batch processing of updates.

• Portal administration tools
  the different tools that use to administer your portal.

• Users and groups
  IBM WebSphere Portal offers you centralized administration of users and user groups, allowing you to better define users and manage user access rights. Users can register and manage their own account information, or an administrator can provision and manage users. Group memberships can be used to give the required permissions to access an object or perform a request.

• Change database passwords that are used by WebSphere Portal
  This section includes information on updating modified or expired database passwords in WAS.

• Controlling access
  After creating users and groups, you can assign them access to specific resources, roles, and policies to control what pages, portlets, applications and information users and groups have access to.

• Auditing
  IBM WebSphere Portal ships an auditing function that allows users to log certain events and their originators into a separate log file. This file can then be used to track administrative activities. For each event the timestamp, an optional transaction ID, the user performing the action, and individual event details are logged.

• Browser behavior and scenarios
  Browser behavior for the back button, bookmarks and history affect user interaction and cause unexpected results.

• Manage portal resources with policies
  Use policies to specify and apply common and specialized settings that determine the how portal resources function for different classes of users.

• Manage portlets and portlet applications
  Before you make portlets or portlet applications available to your users by putting them on portal pages, prepare them. This topic gives an overview of tasks that you might perform to prepare the portlets and portlet applications. This includes installing, deploying, and configuring portlets and applications.

• Creating pages
  Read about the different tasks associated with the Manage Pages portlet.

• Including static content in the portal
  You can include, update, and administer your static content pages by using any of the portal administration tools, Manage Pages portlet, XML configuration interface, or the Portal Scripting Interface.

• Manage pages
  Manage Pages allows you to create, edit, activate, order, and delete pages as well as external Web pages and labels. Available tasks depend on which item is selected. Each page can contain multiple pages. All pages on which you have the User or greater role are displayed in a navigation menu. You must expand pages to access nested pages. The options that you see are dependent upon your access level.

• Manage portlets on a page
  The Portlet Palette provides you with a collection of portlets that you can drag to the page for quick and easy page customization.

• Use portlet wires
  Use wires to exchange information or actions between portlets.

• Manage your cluster
  After installing and configuring your clustered environment, you will need to manage the different parts of your cluster to ensure a highly available production environment.

• Customizing pages
  The page customizer contains portlets for editing the layout, content, and appearance of pages. It also provides the Wires portlet, which allows users to set up connections between cooperative portlets on a page and the Locks portlet, which allows users to lock and unlock containers and container content. You can configure the settings for these portlets to show a certain set of functions, restricting basic users from performing more advanced tasks.

• Manage your site
  You can create pages, labels, and URLs on a source server and publish them to other servers by using the Resource Manager portlet. Once you publish your page, you can do additional testing on the target server before promoting the page to all users and groups with the appropriate access rights.

• Use Web clipping to import content
  

• Portal Search
  Use Portal Search to facilitate indexing content sources and searching for information. You can administer search services, search collections, and search scopes, as well as enhance the search experience of your portal site with the portal search portlets.

• Multiple virtual portals
  This section describes how you can scope your WebSphere Portal to have multiple virtual portals.

• Language support
  To reach as many users as possible, WebSphere Portal supports
  different languages for different locations. For instance, a large, international corporation might address users in different countries or regions through multilingual Web sites. In this context the portal can concurrently serve portal views to large numbers of users, each in user's preferred language.

• Use WSRP services
  IBM WebSphere Portal supports the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) standard. By using this standard portals can provide portlets, applications, and content as WSRP services, and other portals can integrate the WSRP services as remote portlets for their users.

• Reference
  the XML configuration interface and other attributes.

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