Administering the Portal

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.

The portal provides a complete set of tools to administer, manage and monitor the portal within one coherent environment.

·        Content administration: The Portal Content Studio provides a central administrative environment in the portal for code-free development and management of portal content.

·        Role definition: The structure and delivery of content to portal users is determined by role definitions based on the user’s task within the organization. Through roles, a company can structure its business processes and deliver business content according to the needs of certain user groups of the portal.

·        Delegated administration: Comprehensive delegated administration helps manage large-scale implementations by targeting tools and content specifically related to the functions and tasks of users in the organization.

·        Customization: The portal design can be modified to fit a specific corporate image. It provides design templates for users to choose from. Portal administrators determine the level of personalization available to portal end users, including portal themes, languages, passwords, and page and iView properties.

·        User administration: The portal utilizes a user management service that connects to and manages user and group data stored in the user persistence store. A Web-based interface in the portal enables administrators to administer user data centrally and access multiple user data sources in parallel, such as corporate directories, databases, or SAP systems.

·        System administration: The portal provides system administrators with specific tools that enable the configuration and ongoing support of the portal and its landscape.

This section discusses the design-time authoring, deployment, and administrative aspects of a custom portal implementation. To facilitate the use of this documentation, most of it is structured according to the preconfigured administration roles shipped with the portal (see Administration Roles).

The portal's administration interfaces can be modified by developers; therefore the interface descriptions in this guide might not be identical to the interfaces in your portal. For example, you might have additional right-click options in the Portal Catalog, and your editor interfaces could have different names.

 

Additional Information

The following references provide portal-specific documentation provided in other sections of the SAP NetWeaver Library:

·        Portal Runtime Environment (provides basic information about logging on/off and using a portal)

·        Portal Scenarios (provides detailed information about the Running and Enterprise Portal scenario variants)

·        Portal Configuration (provides information in the SAP NetWeaver Administrator's Guide about the standard content shipped with the portal and initial configuration tasks)

·        Portal Technical Operations (in the SAP NetWeaver Administrator's Guide)

·        Portal Security (in the SAP NetWeaver Security Guide)

·        Accessible Content Administration in the Portal (in the Accessibility in the Administrator’s Guide)

·        Developing Applications for the Portal (in the SAP NetWeaver Developer's Guide)