Administer virtual portals

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

Before starting creating or administering virtual portals, read the information in Plan for virtual portals.

Administer virtual portals and their content comprises the following tasks:

• Administer the portal content and resources for virtual portals

• Administer the users for virtual portals

• Administer content and search with virtual portals

Use the following tools to administer the virtual portals:

• The Virtual Portal Manager administration portlet

• Command line tools as follows:

  • Use portal ConfigEngine tasks for administering virtual portals.

  • Use xmlaccess.sh to work with virtual portals.

The following table shows how 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	---

The following two administrative tasks are manual tasks:

• Configure the user repository for the virtual portal

• Pre-configuring virtual portals

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

See:

• Administer the portal content and resources for virtual portals
  When creating a virtual portal using the Virtual Portal Manager portlet, the portlet also creates default portal content and resources for the virtual portal. This default content is determined by the default XML script file for initializing virtual portals. In general, we can administer portal resources for a virtual portal just like you do for a normal portal installation.

• Tasks for administering virtual portals
  Administering virtual portals and their content comprises the tasks described in the following topics.

Parent Virtual portals

Related concepts:

xmlaccess.sh

Related reference:

Portal ConfigEngine tasks for administering virtual portals

Related information

Technotes for virtual portals
Work with xmlaccess.sh