Integrate vb client application to iplanet portal server

how to integrate 3rd party applications to iplanet portal server

If the application is entirely win32 based, you might wan't to have a look at the 3rd party products, such as tarentella, citrix or graphon. iPS allows secure sessions to be set up with these applications via the portal the desktop.

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Does the iplanet Portal server support other existing standalone Webservers/application Servers the likes of weblogic, websphere etc?

If so, will the session management aspect be looked after by the iPlanet Portal server?

The new version of Portal (6.0 I believe) will run on weblogic or websphere as well as iAS.
Kent

POP3 support with iPlanet portal server

Greetings,
We are looking to use a web client (NetMail lite) or thin client (NetMail
lite applet) with iPlanet Portal Server 6.0 sp3 out-of-the-box that will
support POP3. It appears that NetMail lite used to support POP3, but it
appears to only support IMAP now? Is this true?
We are not using iPlanet Messenger Server, we are integrating with existing
POP3 servers. Has anyone found an iPlanet client for this or used a third
party tool for this?

Mike Mahon wrote:
Greetings,
We are looking to use a web client (NetMail lite) or thin client (NetMail
lite applet) with iPlanet Portal Server 6.0 sp3 out-of-the-box that will
support POP3. It appears that NetMail lite used to support POP3, but it
appears to only support IMAP now? Is this true?To my knowledge, NetMail, either the applet or lite) have never supported
pop3.
>
We are not using iPlanet Messenger Server, we are integrating with existing
POP3 servers. Has anyone found an iPlanet client for this or used a third
party tool for this?The manual talkes about writing netlet rules that lets you your pop3 client,
through the netlet, to access your pop3 server.
Kent
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter
under heaven: ... a time to love, and a time to hate; a time
for war, and a time for peace."
-- Ecclesiastes 3:1,8

NetGenesis and iPlanet portal server

Hi Group,
Has anyone used NetGenesis (I believe NetAnalysis is the actual name of the
product) to track web traffic data? Have you used it for an iPlanet portal
server web site? Can you track a portal site the same way as you would
track a regular website?
Thanks in advance.
CJ

I think the servlet container in Portal is meant to be "black boxed" - ie
you shouldn't use it to run anything except Portal.
So stick with your tomcat, and you can integrate it using the normal
Portal APIs and Provider API.
Regards
ws
Will Bohan wrote:
I am fairly new to iPlanet Portal Server 3.0 (have used Tomcat and Resin
before)
I was wondering where should I place a war file with this server to make
it work
(i.e. a war file placed in tomcat_install_dir/webapps will be extracted
and run with tomcat)
Is there a similar location for iPlanet Portal Server 3.0? I have been
reading the documentation
at docs.iplanet for days and cannot find the answer...
Thanks for the assistance
-Will

How do I restrict access by domain and the rest of the world to the documents in the public_html folder in iPlanet Portal Server?

Hello,
We have multiple domains configured in our iPlanet Portal Server 3 demo environment. In addition we are using the gateway.
In one of these domains the userTemplate.html file is tailored to display Macromedia Flash components at dynamic positions on the page. The logical home for these Flash components (since the portal software cannot find them if we simply store them in iwtDesktop) is somewhere below the /opt/SUNWips/public_html directory.
The problem is that once the file is stored here I can access it if I know the url (http://server:8080/file_path) without being authenticated in the domain.
The allow/deny url policy settings are specific to a domain and seem to have no affect on the rest of the world.
Any advice you can provide is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Joel,
If your intent is to block access to the doc root, you can probably use access control lists (acl) to prevent anyone from accessing the files stored under public_html. You can get more information about how to create ACLs from the following URL
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/41/ag/esaccess.htm#1005439
You can even set up Basic Authentication for access to the direcory or ip based access or any which way you want. I've personally never blocked access to the doc root in portal, so I am not sure what the impact will be.
Hope this helps!

I want to write a java program that can add a user to a role or sub role to the Profile Database in iPlanet Portal Server 3.0. Does anyone has any idea or a sample program do such thing. Thanks, Tommy

I want to write a java program that can add a user to a role or sub role to the Profile Database in iPlanet Portal Server 3.0. Does anyone has any idea or a sample program do such thing? Thanks, Tommy

// create the user profile, get the handle back,
// and set the membership profile attributes.
ProfileAdmin newProfile = null;
try {
// the users profile name is the domain
// he belongs to plus their userName
// you will request.domain if your doing this from a servlet, domain_name is the domain_name the user belongs too
String profileName = domain_name + "/" + user;
     if (debug.messageEnabled()) {
debug.message("creating profile for " + profileName);
// create the user profile object
newProfile = ProfileManager.createProfile(
getSession(), profileName ,Profile.USER);
UserProfile userProfile = (UserProfile)newProfile;
     // set the role the user is a member of. Default is to set
     // the users to the default role of the domain they surfed to
     StringBuffer roleName = new StringBuffer(64);
// request.domain instead of domain_name if your doing this from a servlet ..
Profile dp = getDomainProfile(domain_name);
roleName.append(dp.getAttributeString("iwtAuth-defaultRole"));
     if (debug.messageEnabled()) {
debug.message("setting role for " + user + " = " + roleName);
userProfile.setRole(roleName.toString());
newProfile.store(false);
} catch (ProfileException pe) {
     debug.error("profile exception occured: ",pe);
return;
} catch (ProfileException pe) {
     debug.error("login exception occured: ",le);
return;
HTH ..

Crawling iplanet portal server secured content.

Hi, All,
I am new on the iplanet portal server. Try to come up a solution to crawling
the secured content with a valid user name and password. What this the
authentication mechanism of iplanet portal server keep the user's session?
is iPlanet Portal server using cookie to store the session id or pass it
back and forth as a parameter? Where can I find more information about this?
Any response is appreciated!
Hao Huang

currently there is no testing tool available as a part of the product.

Does anyone integrate siteminder with iPlanet Portal Server

I am trying to integrate iPlanet and Siteminder using the secure access pack. Has anyone successfully integrated the two?

yes,
we did basic integration where the authentication will be done using siteminder. The trick is to protect the portal server web server and not the gateway. You also need to add a new authentication module for siteminder in the portal using ipsadmin. We are protecting the login html page only. We couldn't protect the desktop because it's built using servlets.

Client IP address in Portal Server

Is there a way to get end user client IP address in the Portal server? Currently, gateway intercepts the client request and from thereon gateway acts as the client for portal server. So all I see is gateway IP address.
We want to put IP information in our application log files. We are using Sun One Portal 6.0 version.
Thanks in Advance,
Nishchit

Hi !
I think it is adressed as bug id 5044891 and fixed in patch 116856-12. The latest patch now is 116856-15 Go to sunsolve.sun.com -> patchportal and enter 116856-15 in the search field.
hope this helps
/Per-Olov

Can you access applications through BEA Portal Server and run applications on different BEA Application Server?

Is it possible to use common Corporate BEA Portal server and able to run different Business Unit applications on different BEA Application Servers?

Hi Akula,
You may want to read this article:
http://dev2dev.bea.com/products/wlportal81/articles/wsrp.jsp
It maybe related to what you want.
Regards,
--alex
Akula Venkata <[email protected]> wrote:
Is it possible to use common Corporate BEA Portal server and able to
run different Business Unit applications on different BEA Application
Servers?

IPlanet Portal Server admin page problem

the orginal value of "Default Client Type" is "generic HTML" and after i hv updated it as "WML", I cant reach the admin page again.. can anyone show me how to change it back to its orginal value?

Hi there,
You could try exporting the current iwtClient configuration from the command line ie. : "/opt/SUNWips/bin/ipsadmin get component iwtClient > iwtClient.xml" once exported edit the file iwtClient.xml and look for : <iwt:Att name="iwtClient-clientTypes" ..
find the <Val></Val> tags and put the following line into it : "clientType=genericHTML|contentType=text/html|genericHTML=true|cookieSupport=true|fileIdentifier=html|filePath=html"
Save the file and import it again with "/opt/SUNWips/bin/ipsadmin change component iwtClient iwtClient.xml" note this command uses no director "< or >" . Restart the portal server and try it again.
Hope this helps
Regards

Question about how to integrate struts web application into Weblogic Portal

hi, I'm using Weblogic8.1 Portal and workshop to integrate my existing struts web applications. I know that the struts web application can be imported and integrated as a portlet. But I'm not sure how to integrate the corresponding EJB module into portal?
any help appreciated!!

should be simple...
copy all the jpfs and other classes appropriately into a new portal app.
Create a new Java Page Flow portlet.
That should be it.
The major thing to watch for is how your navigation etc change.
Kunal Mittal

Has anyone every try using the iplanet portal server radius authentication module with cryptoCard?

We are using the easyRadius server from CryptoCARD. When we run the radius server in debug mode, it appears ips is sending multiple access-request message. Also, the server is coming back with a challenge which we are not expecting.

yes,
we did basic integration where the authentication will be done using siteminder. The trick is to protect the portal server web server and not the gateway. You also need to add a new authentication module for siteminder in the portal using ipsadmin. We are protecting the login html page only. We couldn't protect the desktop because it's built using servlets.

Does iPlanet portal server provide multi language support?

HI There,
You should be able to set up multiple languages based on the user locale. You can have different templates for each locale within your custom template dir. By convention the following is the order when the portal server checks for templates:
1.<dir>_<locale> (the localized, cust. directory first)
2.<dir> (non-localized, cust. directory)
3.default_<locale> (localized default directory)
4.default (default directory)
Each locale can obviously support a different language.
Hope this helps

Iplanet portal server look and feel limitations

does anyone know what's portal server look and feel limitations? Eg : what components that cannot be changed? Thanks a lot.:)

Actually, you have an almost clean slate. You need to have some sort of header (though I suppose it could be 1 pixel high...), and by turning off the channel frames, you can eliminate the portal feel altogether. Take a look at www.tntvacations.com to see a portal server. The only way you can tell it is portal is through the URL... behind the scenes, it is set up with the thin-thick-thin channel layout, with 8 channel providers. The header and secondary menu components that are part of the customized desktop servlet.

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