Has anyone set up a self-registration portal that will also add the user to a mail profile in iPlanet message server: ie. A new user registers, and automatically get assigned a new e-mail address within the domain.....Any help will be appreciated....

..one more.how would i use javaphone api in java rather than symbian OS

I have created a Custom Authentication module in order to get the username/password. I want to trap the username/password and store them as attributes so that I can use the username/password to log into another application that is started from a channel/provider in my Portal. For Providers the ...

The Iplanet licensing refers to 'standard portal' and 'portal secure remoteaccess'.1. Its the same software2. secure remote access. its encrypted. you use a certificate (which you buy) or have a self generated one.. pay per user3. open access. not encrypted. pay per CPU is this right ? ...

Does anybody know how to get iMS 5.1 webmail working from Portal Server SP3a?I do have the code-changes to be made to get webmail working for Messaging 4.x through Portal server, but this does not seem to work for 5.xI have seen that this question is posted by more people, but I cannot find an ...

I have written some custom channels that access other applications. These custom channels rely on some other API that is bundled in a jar file. I have been able to get my Channels to "work" by putting the API jar into the SUNWips directory and adding the jar to the classpath in the JVM ...

Trying to access the portal server via http://portalserver:port get a500 error response. Looking at the error logs I find this:[05/Dec/2001:08:46:34] warning (21789): Unable to locate ...

Hello friends,I'm a newbie to iPlanet Portal Server. I have gone thro' the demo siteby iplanet also. Can anybody please brief me about the features of iPS overother product in comparison? Who are the intended target audience forpositioning iPS? Is it a development or deployment tool?Thanks in ...

I was looking over the SP2 Release Notes in an effort to better understand JavaServer Page Provider. While doing this I came across this blurb:"Login Channel The Portal Server 3.0 currently contains a membership authentication module which is useful for open portal installations......."My ...

Is it possible to create/configure an attribute that is based on the user. For example, I have a channel/application that lets a user attach a status (from a singlechoice attribute) to a document and route the document to someone else. If the user has a role of "Staff Engineer" he should only ...

I created a simple JSP page and attempted to add it as a provider using the Desktop Channel Wizard. The Channel seemed to build properly as it now appears in the "Available Channels". However, it is not added to any page nor is it avaialable to be added from the Content Page (like other ...

I would like to change the description of a component that has alreadybeen entered into the portal server. The description shows up whenselecting channels for display at the following URL: http://localhost:8080/DesktopServlet?action=edit&provider=iwtContentProvide rI can see the entry in ...

Hello,We are retrieving an RSS feed using the portal server defaultRSSProvider. Is there a xsl file located somewhere that we can customizeto change the presentation of the RSS feed?-matt

I want to use the Login Channel such that my user is presented with static content and along with Login Channel. When the user enters Login & Password he/she is taken to the domain they belong to. And, when they do Login I also want to capture their username & password to access use in ...

I would like to control permissions for an application by defining the a custom privilege and using the following method:public boolean isAllowed(java.lang.String privilege)thank you.

I have an existing Profile Server and Gateway server on separate physical machines. Now I am adding a third machine to run an additional gateway server for load-balancing purposes. But I have not been able to start the 2nd Gateway server. When I turn on debug mode, the error message ...

Hi all,I updated the user profile attribute iwtUser-WWW-Authorization-atusing LDAP command as the ipsadmin command is very slow. I need to add anew url for all the users stored in the Portal's LDAP. Thus a moreefficient way is to update the LDAP directly. However, I need to restartthe web ...

When clicking the refresh button in a browser while on the logout pagethe following error is displayed:"No Such Domain"Any ideas on how to refresh the page without this error message showingup? Clicking the link provided to return to the login page works fine.-matt ...

I have reading about the Log-in channel and reading through the posts onthis newsgroup. I have a question about how the log-in channel can be usedwith two different domains.I have an open domain with a log-in channel. This domain is only availablefrom inside our company network. The user will ...

I want to create a Custom Authentication that does Unix Authentication and some other custom things. How would I incorporate the supplied Unix Authentication in my Custom Authentication?

Can I integrate Active Directory Server with iPlanet Portal Server as External LDAP right away?

Does anyone know how to open the internet links through the Gateway withusing proxy?If it is worked, how to include/exclude particular URL/domain/subdomain(s)in order to use/not use the gateway proxy?Thanks....Jay

We need a citeria to distinguish requests from different gateways,becauseour self-created Auth Module depends on it.When we don't use "ipshttpd", we can use"HttpServletRequest.getRemoteAddr()"in our Auth Module.But when we enable "ipshttpd", the address we get is always the addressof ...

Is it possible to create/configure a channel to reside in either a thinor thick column? For example we would like for a user to be able toselect a channel in the layout tool and move it from thin to thick andback again. It looks like the admin console will only allow one width.-matt ...

Hi,Can anyone tell me how to recreate the root user on the Admin Console?Somehow this account was deleted from the AdminRole which has obviouslyleft the admin console unavailable. Can this be done using the ipsadmincommand?Appreciate any pointers.Thanks,Graeme. ...

I try to store a value in the Process Edit JSP of my Channel (ilinkdeCallJournal) using the following code:JSPProvider jspProvider = (JSPProvider)pageContext.getAttribute("JSPProvider");jspProvider.setStringProperty("ilinkdeCallJournal", "objectsPerBatch", numberOfCalls);Then I try to read the ...

I am having trouble with the Boolmarks channel and the rewrite function.When I click on a link http://www.url.com it turns intohttps://portalurl.com/redirect/ http://www.url.com.These pages never load with the latter url. How do I get portal to notrewrite these and just open the new window with ...

Login Failed Unix initialization LoginExceptionI/O exception trying to connect to Unix service

I am trying to use NetMail or NetMail Lite. I can successfully receiveemail, but when I send, I get the following error:"Internal error while sending message concerning "subject goes here". Seektechnical assistance."Any ideas?Thanks,Matt

I have a tabbed environment with two tabs. User logs in using the LoginProvider. My channel is coming back with "content not available!" The only error I am seeing is in debug/iwtDesktop:WARNING: DesktopServlet.getRequestedServer: ignoreHostHeader not found for client ...

When I put a JAR file containing several compiled Java classes in the '/opt/SUNWips/lib' directory they are not found while compiling a JSP-Provider. When I extract them from the JAR it is not a problem (I think because the '/opt/SUNWips/lib' directory is already in the classpath).Where can ...

We are looking to provide real-time chat capabilities to our employees. There could be a few hundred in a group conference at one time. Is the iPlanet collaboration pack a feasable option? Has anyone had any experience with it?

Pls explain about the authentication application

In iPlanet portal server, is it possible to have the portlets act as their own windows? Ie, be able to scroll up/down, click on a link and have it only refresh the portlet window, not the entire browser.

I have a Servlet Application that previously had run under/in its own iPlanet Webserver container/environment. I know want to deploy it as a Channel in my iPlanet Portal Server. I am soliciting suggestions for how to do this. What is the recommended startegy to do this or what approaches have ...

We've configured our gateways to contact the platform server using a proxy.Now we wish to use this proxy for contacting the profile service, too.Page 156 in the administration guide explains this, and I've followed theinstructions (I've changed both "ipsgateway" scripts, in "/etc/init.d" ...

Can someone provide a simple example of how to use the URLScraper? If, for example, I wanted to deploy the HelloServlet example thru the URL Scraper Provider what would I enter in the fields (from the Channel Wizard?Specifically, wht goes in Content URL and what does the URLScaper ...

Would someone post the default classpath in the jvm12.conf file after installing IPS? I ran into the 1024 char length when I was editing it and some of the original values were overtyped. Is there a way to get around the 1024 char length by setting Environment varaibles?I believe my problem is ...

We have installed iPS 3.0 and are supporting both IMAP and LDAP connections through the Netlet functionality. While this configuration works, the performance isn't fantastic, due primarily to the nature of how netlet works - the address book must establish a new VPN / netlet connect each time ...

And also define each one of the above providers