Sun Microsystems Portal Server 6 manuals

Sun microsystems Portal Server 6 User Manual (192 pages)

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Table of contents

Portal Server 6

1

Deployment Planning Guide

1

Contents

3

Contents 5

5

Contents 7

7

List of Figures

9

List of Tables

11

Before You Read This Book

13

Who Should Read This Book

13

How This Book Is Organized

14

Conventions Used in This Book

15

Related Documentation

16

Other Server Documentation

17

Sun Welcomes Your Comments

19

Portal Server Architecture

21

Types of Portals

22

Portal Server Capabilities

23

Sun Java System Portal Server

24

Secure Remote Access

25

Portal Server in Secure Mode

26

Applications

27

Identity Management

30

Software Packaging

31

Software Categories

31

Figure 1-4 SRA Deployment

35

Architecture

37

Proxy Configuration

39

Gateway and SSL Support

39

Gateway Access Control

40

Gateway Logging

41

Split Tunneling

43

Netlet Proxy

44

Initialization

45

Validating Credentials

45

Access Control

46

Security

46

Special Operations

46

Rewriter Proxy

48

Business Objectives

51

Technical Goals

53

Search Engine

57

Personalization

58

Aggregation and Integration

58

Pre-Deployment Considerations

61

Portal Sizing Tips

62

Portal Sizing

63

Peak Numbers

64

Concurrent Users

65

Average Session Time

66

Search Engine Factors

66

Portal Desktop Configuration

67

Hardware and Applications

68

Back-End Servers

68

Transaction Time

68

Workload Conditions

69

LDAP Transaction Numbers

70

SRA Sizing

72

Requirements

73

Netlet Usage Characteristics

74

Advanced Gateway Settings

75

Scalability

76

Creating Your Portal Design

79

Portal Design Approach

80

Logical Portal Architecture

81

Portal Server and Scalability

83

System Availability

85

Degrees of High Availability

85

Portal

86

SMTP/IMAP

87

Best Effort

92

No Single Point of Failure

93

Transparent Failover

96

Building Module Constraints

97

Directory Server Requirements

98

Search Engine Structure

98

Elements of Portal Use Cases

100

Using Platform Security

103

Limiting Access Control

104

3. Restart amserver services

110

Basic SRA Configuration

112

Disable Netlet

113

Proxylet

114

Multiple Gateway Instances

115

Netlet and Rewriter Proxies

116

Rewriter

117

Netlet traffic

119

HTTP traffic

119

Using an Accelerator

120

Netlet with 3rd Party Proxy

121

Reverse Proxy

122

Designing for Localization

123

Integration Design

124

Independent Software Vendors

125

Implementing Single Sign-On

128

Portal Desktop Design

128

Working with Providers

129

Client Support

131

The Production Environment

133

Documenting the Portal

134

Monitoring Portal Server

135

CPU Utilization

136

Thread Usage

137

Portal Usage Information

138

Installed Product Layout

139

Directories Installed for SRA

140

Configuration Files

141

Analysis Tools

143

What to Look For

145

Considerations

145

What to look for

149

Considerations:

149

Consider the following:

149

Tuning Parameters for

150

/etc/system

150

Table B-3 TCP/IP Options

151

Portal Server

153

/welcome.html

157

XMLConfig

157

Troubleshooting Your Portal

159

Deployment

159

Log Files

160

Troubleshooting Portal Server

161

Troubleshooting SRA

162

Introduction to

163

./shooter.sh

164

SRA Log Files

165

Gateway-hostname

166

Gateway-profile-name

166

Portal Deployment Worksheets

167

Table E-1 General Questions

168

Portal Assessment Worksheets

169

Portal Design Task List

171

2. Design

172

Java System

173

Sun Java System Portal

173

4. Deployment Production

176

Limitations Using Linux

179

Glossary

181

Section B

184

Section E

185

Index 185

185

Section H

186

Section M

187

Index 187

187

Section O

188

Section Q

189

Index 189

189

Section T

190

Section W

191

Index 191

191

Section X

192

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