Configuring the Federated Portal Network

This IT process describes the steps that administrators on the producer and consumer portals must perform to configure and integrate the portals into a federated portal network. The producer also makes the necessary configurations to expose its content for consumption by other consumers.

Use of the Process

This process is part of the following IT scenarios:

Prerequisites

• See "Prerequisites" in Running an Enterprise Portal .
• During installation of usage type EPC, you have configured your SAP NetWeaver Portal to store user management data in the portal database.
• The same user base applies to both the producer and the consumer portal (only required for NetWeaver-based producers and consumers).
• SAPNetWeaver consumer and producer portals are all running SAP NetWeaver 7.0.
• Non-SAP producer and consumer portals are all WSRP-compliant.

Process Workflow

The following process flow relates to a single producer-consumer relationship. Repeat the steps for each additional producer-consumer pairing.

1. Administrators on each producer and consumer portal separately configure their user repositories.
2. Administrators on each producer and consumer portal separately configure their system settings to prepare for a federated portal network implementation.
3. A system administrator on the consumer portal creates a connection to the remote producer portal, and then registers the consumer portal with the producer portal.
4. A system administrator on the producer portal sets permissions to its content in order to expose it to the registered consumer.
   Note

   It is assumed at this point that content has already been generated on the producer portal. For information on creating portal content, see the Providing Uniform Content Access scenario variant. Note that a producer portal can generate new content at any time and make it available for consumption by other consumers.

Results

The producer and consumer portals are connected to the federated portal network. The producer has exposed the content that it wants to share. The consumer has registered itself with the producer and is ready to use the remote content exposed by the producer. See Creating Federated Portal Network Content .