5 Maintaining WebCenter Portal Applications

The chapter outlines what Fusion Middleware administrators might do to keep WebCenter Portal applications up and running. The following roadmap helps to guide you through the process:

Section 5.1, "System Administration for WebCenter Portal Applications (Roadmap)"

Although WebCenter Spaces is itself a WebCenter application, it does require some special maintenance tasks that WebCenter Portal applications do not. To see a comprehensive list of these tasks, refer to Chapter 3, "Maintaining WebCenter Spaces".

Audience

The content of this chapter is intended for Fusion Middleware administrators responsible for WebCenter Portal application administration (users granted the Admin role through the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console).

5.1 System Administration for WebCenter Portal Applications (Roadmap)

The roadmap in Table 5-1 outlines typical tasks that a Fusion Middleware administrator might perform to keep a WebCenter Portal application up and running.

If the WebCenter Portal application must temporarily shut down for maintenance, ensure that a suitable message displays to any users who attempt to access the application while it is offline.

Table 5-1 Roadmap - Maintaining WebCenter Portal Applications

Tasks	Documentation	Role
Stop and start the managed server	Restart the managed server on which the WebCenter Portal application is deployed to effect configuration changes or for routine maintenance: Starting and Stopping Managed Servers for WebCenter Application Deployments	Fusion Middleware Admin
Stop and start the WebCenter Portal application	Shut down the application for maintenance purposes and then restart the application: Starting and Stopping WebCenter Portal Applications	Fusion Middleware Admin
Maintain back-end services	Add, modify, and delete connections through the Fusion Middleware Control Console:	Fusion Middleware Admin
Content Repositories	Managing Content Repositories
Mail Servers	Managing the Mail Service
BPEL Servers	Managing the Worklist Service
Collaboration Services	Managing the Announcements and Discussions Services Managing the Instant Messaging and Presence Service
Secure Enterprise Search	Managing Oracle SES Search in WebCenter
Analytics Services	Managing the Analytics Service
Activity Graph Services	Managing the Activity Graph Service
Personalization Services	Managing WebCenter Personalization
Maintain external applications and portlet producers	Add, modify, and delete connections through Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control Console. See:	Fusion Middleware Admin
External Applications	Managing External Applications
Portlet Producers	Registering WSRP Producers Registering Oracle PDK-Java Producers Registering the Pagelet Producer
Reassociate your identity, policy and credential stores	Reassociate your identity or policy stores: Configuring the Identity Store Configuring the Policy and Credential Store See also Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide.	Fusion Middleware Admin
Reconfigure the MDS repository	Setting Up the MDS Repository	Fusion Middleware Admin
Reconfigure WebCenter repository	Setting Up Database Connections
Export WebCenter Portal application data	Migrate data to a remote instance or between stage and production environments: Exporting WebCenter Services Metadata and Data (WebCenter Portal Applications) Exporting Portlet Client Metadata (WebCenter Portal Applications) Migrating Security for WebCenter Portal Applications Migrating Data (WebCenter Portal Applications) See also, "Managing Export, Import, Backup, and Recovery of WebCenter".	Fusion Middleware Admin
Import WebCenter Portal application data	Use the import facility to move content to a remote instance or between stage and production environments: Importing WebCenter Services Metadata and Data (WebCenter Portal Applications) Importing Portlet Client Metadata (WebCenter Portal Applications) Migrating Security for WebCenter Portal Applications Migrating Data (WebCenter Portal Applications)	Fusion Middleware Admin
View and manage log files	Identify and diagnose problems through log files. WebCenter Portal application logs record all types of events, including startup and shutdown information, errors, warnings, and other information: Viewing and Configuring Log Information	Fusion Middleware Admin
Monitor performance	Analyze the performance of the WebCenter Portal application and monitor its current status through Fusion Middleware Control Console: Viewing Performance Information Monitoring WebCenter Portal Applications	Fusion Middleware Admin
Tune application properties	Reconfigure performance related parameters for the WebCenter environment, WebCenter application, and WebCenter services: Tuning Oracle WebCenter Performance	Fusion Middleware Admin
Perform application administrative tasks through WebCenter Portal Administration pages	Perform application administrative duties: Set application-level preferences Manage users and grant application roles Manage and configure application resources Manage and configure content Manage and configure portlet producers Manage and configure external applications Create and manage polls See: Using WebCenter Portal Administration Console	Application Admin