Administration and Deployment Tasks

Your organization determines the information that is appropriate for different groups of users. Then, your portal administrator customizes the information that is provided to those groups, and deploys different views of the portal for each group.
Here are the main tasks that administrators perform:
  • Install the portal along with all required servers and services, and configure the portal for your environment.
  • Deploy the custom portlets and applications that developers in your organization have created. Administrators use the tools that are provided with the portal for this purpose.
  • Deploy the reports, information maps, stored processes, documents, and other content items that are available for the portal.
    Administrators can also create XML data files that are based on SAS data sets, and then add the data files to the WebDAV repository. Portal users can then create WebDAV graph portlets to display this content.
  • Configure settings that affect portal behavior for your site. For example, administrators can configure the portal to accept trusted connections from users who have been authenticated by the Web application server.
  • Customize the appearance of the portal. For example, administrators can do the following:
    • Create custom themes and make the new themes available to portal users.
    • Set up a default theme. When users log on to the portal, they see the theme that is specified as default.
    • Change the default preferences that were set during installation. For example, administrators can change the locale that is used for the portal.
    • Set the default values for page navigation and package sort order.
  • Configure portal security by defining users and groups, by assigning users to groups, and by controlling access to portal content.
  • Set up portal views by creating content and sharing the content selectively with different groups of users. For example, administrators might share a set of Web pages, portlets, and links with a group named Sales Managers. Users who belong to this group see the shared content when they log on to the portal. Users can also locate shared content using the search tool.
See SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide for more information about administration tasks.