Collaboration 
The Collaboration capabilities of SAP NetWeaver allow online communication and collaboration in the portal.
This section provides information about the administration and maintenance of Collaboration in the Enterprise Portal (EP) usage type. It describes the tasks and the corresponding tools. In addition, it points you to further documentation that you require for performing these tasks.
Technical System Landscape
The Collaboration capabilities are installed
with the SAP NetWeaver EP (Enterprise Portal) usage type. Collaboration builds
on basic capabilities of the Portal and Knowledge Management. Like the
Portal and Knowledge Management, Collaboration is based on the development
platform Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). For a detailed description of the
technical system landscape for Collaboration, see 
Architecture.
Prerequisites
The system components required must be installed and configured. You can find information about this in the master guide. The table below contains links to information on this guide.
Content |
Quick Link on the SAP Service Marketplace (service.sap.com) |
Master guide, installation guide, and upgrade guide |
/instguidesNW2004s |
Relevant SAP Notes |
/SAPNotesNW2004s |
Released platforms |
/platforms |
Security |
/security |
Technical infrastructure |
/ti |
SAP Solution Manager |
/solutionmanager |
Tasks
The administration and maintenance tasks for Collaboration are carried out either as required or periodically. Overall, the following groups of tasks are possible:
This includes specific monitoring functions for Collaboration applications. In addition, the general monitoring and logging applications in the portal are available.
This includes functions that you use to administrate the Collaboration applications in production operations and that you can modify to suit current company-specific requirements.
This includes specific functions that provide support during the following phases:
¡ Setting up the software landscape
¡ Maintaining your software
¡ Localization, rollout
¡ Integration of third-party products
This includes functions that check critical settings in the Collaboration area and report any problems.