Manage the servers

Before you begin to manage site using the Site Management page, add the source and target servers to the Resource Manager portlet. After adding the servers to the portlet, you can edit and remove servers and manage access to the servers.

You manage servers from the Site Management page. To navigate to the Site Management page, from the portal home page, select Administration -> Site Management. You must be an administrator to use the site management functions. If you use the Portal Scripting Interface scripts to publish pages instead of the Resource Manager portlet on the Site Management page, you do not need to perform these steps for managing servers. With the scripts you pass the configuration data as parameters.

To manage servers using the Site Management page:

1. Log on as an administrator to the server where you will manage site.

2. Add a new server:

   1. Navigate to the Site Management page by clicking Administration -> Site Management.

   2. Click Manage servers -> Add new server.

   3. Enter the fully qualified Host name for the server.

   4. Enter the server Port number.

   5. Enter the server Path. You can accept the default path, for example: /wps/mycontenthandler.
      If you configure a virtual portal, then the path is as follows:

      • If the virtual portlet was created by defining the URL context:

        /wps/mycontenthandler/vpid

      • where vpid is the URL context of the virtual portal. To determine that URL context, open the Manage Virtual Portals portlet and view the virtual portal by clicking its Edit icon. Example:

        http://www.server.de:10040/wps/mycontenthandler/sales

      • If the virtual portal was defined by the host name:

        http://vphost:port/wps/mycontenthandler

      • where the host and port of the virtual portal are specified. Example:

        ttp://www.salesserver.de:10040/wps/mycontenthandler

   6. Assign a unique name for the server.

   7. Check the Use Secure Sockets Layer option if the server is set up for SSL.

   8. Click OK to save changes, or click Cancel to exit without saving changes.

3. To Manage server access:
   Use the Manage server access option to provide or update the login credentials to servers that you are managing.

   1. Click Manage servers and then select Manage server access.

   2. Select the server that you want to access from the drop-down menu.

   3. Enter the User name for the server.

   4. Enter the Password for the server.

   5. Click Save to save the information, or click Done to exit without saving the information.

4. To edit a server:

   1. Click Manage servers and then select Edit -> servername.

   2. Edit the fully qualified Host name for the server.

   3. Edit the server Port number.

   4. Edit the server Path.

   5. Check the Use Secure Sockets Layer option if the server is set up for SSL.

   6. Click OK to save changes, or click Cancel to exit without saving changes.

5. To remove a server:

   1. Click Manage servers and then select Remove -> servername.

   2. Click OK to delete the server or Cancel to exit without deleting the server.

6. Optional. If you use a Oracle iPlanet Web Server as the target server, perform the following steps:

   1. Log in to the target Web server administrative console.

   2. Add Write and Delete access control roles to the anyone users and groups.

   3. Save and submit changes.

   4. Restart the Web server.

   If you use a Oracle iPlanet Web Server as target server and you do not perform these additional steps, the browser might prompt you for the Web server administrator user ID and password when you publish a page to this target server. Even if you enter the correct user ID and password, the prompt will be displayed over and over again. The reason is that by default the Oracle iPlanet Web Server does not have the write and delete access control rules. Publishing a page to the target server requires write and delete access rights, but the default Oracle iPlanet Web Server installation does not grant these two access rights to anyone.

Parent

Manage the site

Related tasks

Enable remote access to servers
Configure resource management
Publish page
Provide reviewer access to a published page
Promoting page
Demoting page
Republishing and promoting a page
Portal Scripting Interface extension for site management

 

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