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Sun Microsystems Portal Server 6 2005Q1 manual available for free PDF download: Planning Manual
Sun Microsystems Portal Server 6 2005Q1 Planning Manual (192 pages)
Sun Java System Deployment Planning Guide
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Table of Contents
Portal Server
1
Table of Contents
3
List of Figures
9
List of Tables
11
Before You Read this Book
13
Preface
13
Who Should Read this Book
13
How this Book Is Organized
14
Typographic Conventions
15
Table 1 Typographical Conventions
15
Related Documentation
16
Books in this Documentation Set
16
Other Portal Server Documentation
17
Other Server Documentation
17
Accessing Sun Resources Online
18
Contacting Sun Technical Support
18
Related Third-Party Web Site References
18
Sun Welcomes Your Comments
19
Chapter 1 Portal Server Architecture
21
What Is a Portal
21
Types of Portals
22
Collaborative Portals
22
Business Intelligence Portals
23
Portal Server Capabilities
23
Sun Java System Portal Server
24
Secure Remote Access
25
Portal Sever in Open Mode
25
Portal Server in Secure Mode
26
Figure 1-1 Portal Server in Open Mode
26
Figure 1-2 Portal Server in Secure Mode
27
Security, Encryption, and Authentication
28
Portal Server Deployment Components
28
Portal Server Architecture
29
Identity Management
30
Portal Server Software Deployment
31
Software Packaging
31
Software Categories
31
Compatibility with Java Software
32
A Typical Portal Server Installation
33
Figure 1-3 High-Level Architecture for a Business-To-Employee Portal
34
Figure 1-4 SRA Deployment
35
Chapter 2 Portal Server Secure Remote Access Architecture
37
SRA Gateway
37
Multiple Gateway Instances
38
Multiple Portal Server Instances
38
Proxy Configuration
39
Gateway and HTTP Basic Authentication
39
Gateway and SSL Support
39
Gateway Access Control
40
Gateway Logging
41
Using Accelerators with the Gateway
41
Netlet
41
Static and Dynamic Port Applications
41
Netlet and Application Integration
43
Split Tunneling
43
Netlet Proxy
44
Netfile
44
Components
44
Initialization
45
Validating Credentials
45
Access Control
46
Security
46
Special Operations
46
Netfile and Multithreading
47
Rewriter
47
Rewriter Proxy
48
Proxylet
49
Chapter 3 Identifying and Evaluating Your Business and Technical Requirements
51
Business Objectives
51
Technical Goals
53
Mapping Portal Server Features to Your Business Needs
54
Identity Management
54
Table 3-1 Identity Management Features and Benefits
54
Sra
56
Table 3-2 SRA Features and Benefits
56
Search Engine
57
Table 3-3 Search Features and Benefits
57
Personalization
58
Aggregation and Integration
58
Table 3-4 Personalization Features and Benefits
58
Understanding User Behaviors and Patterns
59
Table 3-5 Aggregation Features and Benefits
59
Chapter 4 Pre-Deployment Considerations
61
Determine Your Tuning Goals
61
Portal Sizing Tips
62
Establish Performance Methodology
62
Portal Sizing
63
Establish Baseline Sizing Figures
64
Customize the Baseline Sizing Figures
69
Validate Baseline Sizing Figures
70
Refine Baseline Sizing Figures
71
Validate Your Final Figures
72
SRA Sizing
72
Identifying Gateway Key Performance Requirements
73
Advanced Gateway Settings
75
SRA Gateway and SSL Hardware Accelerators
76
SRA and Sun Enterprise Midframe Line
77
Chapter 5 Creating Your Portal Design
79
Portal Design Approach
79
Overview of High-Level Portal Design
80
Overview of Low-Level Portal Design
81
Logical Portal Architecture
81
Portal Server and Scalability
83
Vertical Scaling
83
Horizontal Scaling
83
Portal Server and High Availability
84
System Availability
85
Degrees of High Availability
85
Achieving High Availability for Portal Server
85
Portal Server System Communication Links
86
Figure 5-1 Portal Server Communication Links
87
Working with Portal Server Building Modules
89
Figure 5-2 Portal Server Building Module Architecture
89
Building Modules and High Availability Scenarios
90
Table 5-1 Portal Server High Availability Scenarios
91
Figure 5-3 Best Effort Scenario
92
Figure 5-4 no Single Point of Failure Example
93
Figure 5-5 Transparent Failover Example Scenario
96
Building Module Constraints
97
Deploying Your Building Module Solution
97
Designing Portal Use Case Scenarios
99
Elements of Portal Use Cases
100
Example Use Case: Authenticate Portal User
101
Table 5-2 Use Case: Authenticate Portal User
101
Designing Portal Security Strategies
102
Securing the Operating Environment
102
Using Platform Security
103
Using a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
104
Portal Server and Access Manager on Different Nodes
105
Figure 5-6 Portal Server and Access Manager on Different Nodes
105
Figure 5-7 Two Portal Servers and One Access Manager
107
Figure 5-8 One Portal Server and Two Access Managers
108
Figure 5-9 Two Portal Servers and Two Access Managers
109
Designing SRA Deployment Scenarios
111
Basic SRA Configuration
112
Figure 5-10 Basic SRA Configuration
112
Disable Netlet
113
Figure 5-11 Disable Netlet
113
Proxylet
114
Figure 5-12 Proxylet
114
Multiple Gateway Instances
115
Figure 5-13 Multiple Gateway Instances
115
Netlet and Rewriter Proxies
116
Figure 5-14 Netlet and Rewriter Proxies
117
Netlet and Rewriter Proxies on Separate Nodes
118
Figure 5-15 Proxies on Separate Nodes
118
Using Two Gateways and Netlet Proxy
119
Figure 5-16 Two Gateways and Netlet Proxy
119
Using an Accelerator
120
Figure 5-17 SRA Gateway with External Accelerator
120
Netlet with 3Rd Party Proxy
121
Figure 5-18 Netlet and Third-Party Proxy
121
Reverse Proxy
122
Figure 5-19 Using a Reverse Proxy in Front of the Gateway
122
Designing for Localization
123
Content and Design Implementation
123
Integration Design
124
Identity and Directory Structure Design
127
Implementing Single Sign-On
128
Portal Desktop Design
128
Client Support
131
Chapter 6 The Production Environment
133
Moving to a Production Environment
133
Monitoring and Tuning
133
Documenting the Portal
134
Monitoring Portal Server
135
Memory Consumption and Garbage Collection
135
CPU Utilization
136
Access Manager Cache and Sessions
137
Thread Usage
137
Portal Usage Information
138
Appendix A Installed Product Layout
139
Directories Installed for Portal Server
139
Table A-1 Portal Server Directories
139
Directories Installed for SRA
140
Table A-2 Portal Server, SRA Directories
140
Configuration Files
141
Appendix B Analysis Tools
143
Table B-1 Performance Analysis Tools
143
Mpstat
144
Iostat
146
Netstat
147
Tuning Parameters for /Etc/System
150
Table B-2 /Etc/System Options
150
Table B-3 TCP/IP Options
150
Appendix C Portal Server and Application Servers
153
Introduction to Application Server Support in Portal Server
153
Portal Server on an Application Server Cluster
154
Overview of Application Server Enterprise Edition
155
Overview of BEA Weblogic Server Clusters
155
Overview of IBM Websphere Application Server
157
Appendix D Troubleshooting Your Portal Deployment
159
Troubleshooting Portal Server
159
UNIX Processes
159
Log Files
160
Recovering the Search Database
160
Working with the Display Profile
160
High CPU Utilization for Portal Server Instance
161
Configuring a Sun Java System Portal Server Instance to Use an HTTP Proxy
162
Troubleshooting SRA
162
Debugging the Gateway
162
Introduction to Shooter
163
Using Shooter
164
SRA Log Files
165
Appendix E Portal Deployment Worksheets
167
Portal Assessment Worksheets
167
Table E-1 General Questions
167
Table E-2 Organizational Questions
168
Table E-3 Business Service-Level Expectations Questions
169
Table E-4 Content Management Questions
169
Table E-5 User Management and Security Questions
170
Table E-6 Business Intelligence Questions
170
Table E-7 Architecture Questions
170
Portal Design Task List
171
Table E-8 Design Task List
171
Appendix F Portal Server on the Linux Platform
179
Limitations Using Linux
179
Comparison of Solaris and Linux Path Names
179
Table F-1 Comparison of Solaris and Linux Path Names
179
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