Planning a production system for SAP portal

Hello Experts-
Can any one of you point me to some document or blogs on best practises on designing production portal. I am not looking for best practics implementing portal, but just production system.
Thanks,
John.

Hi,
What do you mean by implementing portal production system ? Are you talking about HA or from application point of view ? If application point of view, what all application you want to install on portal ?
Thanks
Sunny

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regards
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HI
You can call the BI Administration Cockpit from the BI Administration 1.0 business package in SAP Enterprise Portal
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/90080703-4331-2a10-cd98-9c1e95acdea0
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/howtoguides
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/event/webinars?rid=/library/uuid/d09864c5-0bb0-2910-8e8a-a306a886dcd9
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/48/bc406a800a4226951dcc57428e03f2/frameset.htm
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Many thanks for your reply.
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