Portal
This section provides you with information about administration and maintenance tasks specific to the portal capabilities of the SAP NetWeaver usage type EP Core (EPC). It also refers you to the tools and the documentation you need to perform these tasks.
Usage type EPC provides the core portal capabilities of SAP NetWeaver. It is tightly associated with usage type Enterprise Portal (EP), which provides portal add-on capabilities, such as knowledge management and collaboration.
For more information about usage type EPC, see the section on SAP NetWeaver usage types in the Master Guide for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 at service.sap.com/instguidesNW70 → Planning.
Technical System Landscape
The technical system landscape illustrates the main technical components of usage type EPC and the communication between these components. For more information, see Technical System Landscape.
Tasks
Administration and maintenance of the portal are performed either on demand or on a periodical basis. For more information, see the following:
Describes the monitoring and log applications available in the portal for monitoring and checking the different components, applications and services shipped with the portal. With the information you obtain through monitoring, logging and tracing, you can analyze the system and initiate any necessary measures.
Describes various portal administrative and maintenance tasks necessary to keep in the portal running optimally, such as clustering, load balancing, user management, clearing the portal runtime cache, starting and stopping servers, back and restore and implementing a reverse proxy filter.
Describes how you can establish consistent and solution-wide change management environment. Topics covered are transport and change management, support packages and SAP notes implementation, and release and upgrade management.
Describes aspects related to troubleshooting your portal.