Managing Your Portal
Purpose
SAP NetWeaver Portal is a scalable portal, with an open architecture capable of integrating unlimited content. Portal content is designed to retrieve information from varied information sources such as Web sites, groupware applications, legacy systems, enterprise applications, databases, and document directories.
Features
The portal provides a complete set of tools to administer, manage and monitor the portal within one coherent environment. These administrative tools are designed as modular portal pages or iViews, enabling you to delegate administration tasks according to your business scenario.
You can integrate composite applications, modeled and developed in SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (NWCE), into a portal environment for testing and production purposes. You can also use the portal's own built-in tools to create portal content and integrate applications.
Optionally, use the federated portal network capabilities of SAP NetWeaver to seamlessly expose applications running in NWCE to an existing SAPNetWeaver 7.0 production portal.
NWCE provides a lean portal platform without knowledge management and collaboration capabilities, offering improved performance and reduced memory consumption.
Integration
Following the
installation of the portal, the initial configuration steps (see
Configuring the
Portal), and the delegation of administration tasks and initial content,
the portal administrator tools are used to import and create custom portal
content, and to build roles that are comprised of specific subsets of portal
content for designated groups of enterprise users.
Other services and procedures that are closely, but indirectly involved in information processing and distribution to portal users are also described here. For example, user management and changing the portal design to reflect your company brand.
The following sections describe in detail how to manage your portal installation:
· Logging On to / Off the Portal
To view an overview of the specific steps you need to perform to integrate your composite applications as content into your CE portal, see Integrating Content into the NWCE Portal.
For information about running your composition applications in a remote portal running on SAP NetWeaver 7.0, see Running Content in a Remote Portal.