Administering

The administrator tasks involve configuring and customizing the environment and controlling access to it.

In a single installation the Tivoli Integrated Portal provides a product design environment and customization, with services that enable multiple-product integration.

Logging in
Log in to the console whenever you want to start a work session.
Stopping and starting the application server
The Tivoli Integrated Portal Server starts automatically after it has been installed and whenever the computer is started. You can manually stop the server before beginning certain configuration tasks or as needed.
Port assignments
The application server requires a set of sequentially numbered ports.
Viewing the application server profile
Open the application server profile to review the port number assignments and other information.
Changing passwords
You can use the Change Your Password portlet to change your password from the default provided by the administrator.
Exporting and importing
You can export customized configuration data from an existing Tivoli Integrated Portal installation to another by exporting the data and subsequently importing the exported data.
Changing the default security registry
The default security registry can be set at install time. Use this procedure to change the default registry after installation.
CGI support
Use the initialization parameters to control the behavior of CGIServlet.
Backing up and restoring the Deployment Engine
Use the Deployment Engine (DE) backup script before installing additional components or other products that are based on the Tivoli Integrated Portal platform. If you need to recover the original configuration after a failure, you can then run the Deployment Engine restore script.
System Cloning Solution
Use the System Cloning Solution (SCS) to clone instances of Tivoli Integrated Portal Server.
Increasing memory for the Java Virtual Machine
This task describes how to increase the amount of memory available to the Tivoli Integrated Portal.
Checking hostname settings
The value of the Hostname property in the tip_home_dir/properties/tip.properties file is used by Tivoli Integrated Portal to convert incoming browser requests (for example, http://<SystemName>:16310) to the appropriate Tivoli Integrated Portal non-secure access (for example, http://<HostnameValue>:16315)/ibm/console), which is then converted to the Tivoli Integrated Portal secure access (for example, https://<HostnameValue>:16316/ibm/console/login.jsp).
Accessing Context Menu Service features
To access Context Menu Service features from within Tivoli Integrated Portal, you must be assigned the Monitor role in Tivoli Integrated Portal.
Command reference
Use the Tivoli Integrated Portal command line interface tipcli commands for writing scripts for passing information between applications.