I am carrying my tests under W2000 with all the default installation options. I've checked the user ID (admin), password and port are correct. However, I was not able to start the Netscape Console and also, the kregedit exited with messages:Could not connect to LDAP server on cr7260et017 port ...

Are there any versions of the portal that have native support for communications to Web Services? Is it going to be eventually possible to dynamically discover channels via a discovery method like UDDI?

I currently have a domain that is setup for anonymous login. I have the iwtLoginProvider channel on the desktop for the anonymous user. I have setup the Login Channel to authenticate to a NT server and this is working correctly. What I want to do is when the user is authenticated I want them to ...

The OS is solaris 8 and portal server 3. The first installation went through properly and we had installed many other applications also along with portal server. Then we had to ship the machine to some other city and restarted with same IP address, host address and domain, and also made a LAN ...

In our current portal configuration we have the portal server running on one machine and the gateway on another. We want to move the gateway onto the same system as the portal server. So the easist way to do this seems to be to add a new gateway. Here is a link to the documentation on how to ...

Would appreciate if somebody can tell how to change the user's default URL. This is the URL to which user is forwarded to after authentication is over. By default this is the DesktopServlet. I have tried changing it in the Users profile, but it doesn't seem to work. Seems to get overridden by ...

I'm trying to install iPlanet Portal Server 3.0sp3a ona fully patched solaris 8 server.The "ipsinstall"scripts inspects my system and recommends the followingpatches:Inspecting system.Patch 108987-04 is recommended/required.Patch 109137-01 is recommended/required.I have the latest patches ...

I am working on the workflow functionality.I have documentation on iPlanet Process Manager (iPM) that provides the workflow services to iPlanet Portal Server. But I do not have any documentation on how to interact with iPM from iPS, like, is the service provided through a channel or some other ...

We have the portal servers setup in the following manner. Server A has one instance of portal server with profile server and LDAP server. Server B has 4 instances of portal server and a profile server and NO LDAP server installed on this machine. Issue : No user sessions existing (user profile ...

I have an application running on iAS. I have integrated it with the iPlanet Portal Server 3.0 sp3a using URLScraper channel.I am encountering a problem.While running the Application, intermittently the Authentication Page of the Portal comes up and the user has to log in again.I have set both ...

I am trying to change the layout of the anonymous user desktop. I know how to change the layout after i login as a User. All the thin channels except one get lined up in the first column of a thin-thick-thin layout.How to change that? Any help is greatly appreciated.Hugo Victor ...

Has anyone used custom tag libraries in the JSP for creating channels? There seems to be a problem with the location of the tld file and jar file. Can anyone please let me know where these files should be located, how they should be accessed in the jsp (basically how to provide the path). I ...

can the Process Manager be used for achieving approval of documents? or is there any other product to achieve such a workflow. i need to know specifically about the approval of documents.

i have installed the portal server and want to install the compass server on win nt and the installation document speaks about installing the compass server on solaris alone. i need the installation steps on nt and how to connect it to the portal server installed in solaris

Is there any possibility to build a channel, who can present a searchresult which is static? E. g.: I want the the channel to present for example 10 searchresults(which he can get over the compass server)about the keywor "iPlanet"! But the user should not be able to change these ...

If I have an application that is not running from inside the portal (It is deployed on some other Web Server that is not inside the portal), but it is launched from the portal (via a URL), how would I access Profile information about the application? Basically, if I wanted to store attributes ...

Currently the portal software is set up to run the client over https, but we would like to run the admin console over https, as well. This would be post-installation.

Is there a way to send a broadcast message to all users that are logged into the portal? The reason I ask is that it would be nice to notify users if the server will be down for a few minutes. TIA, -Brian

I can't find out where to download SP3. Am I missing something? It seems now SP2 isn't even posted.

I have a desktop channel (JSPProvider) that requires some global settings (database connect info, etc.) to be made by an administrator after deployment and before use. Is it possible to make the custom attributes show up in the administration console (Manage Domains --> myDomain --> ...

Hi,I've written a jsp to simulate dynamic content in a channel. Now i want to display a HTML site over the hole front page.Is it possible to maximize a custom channel provider at the size of the hole front page ?I' ve tried it with a the DesktopURL class (and the action=Maximize ...

I have a E420R w/4 CPUs, 2GB RAM running iPlanet Portal Server 3.0sp3a only on Solaris 8 07/01 (both gateway and portal are on the same machine). The portal and gateway stop working after up about 1 day. The java process is relative high (normally is 10%, both when both died, it is about 35% in ...

I am able to get the content of RSS file using RSSProvider in the channel But I don't know how to set the portal to fetch the rss file at regular interval(periodically). And also I want to know what is actually Syndicated Content?I would appreciate if you could give me the reply asapThanks in ...

Does someone know what the object class should be in the "Rewrite Applet/Object Parameter Values List" section of Gateway Management for portal?We are having problems with one of the param URL's being rewritten.

I try to use this userTemplate.html <html><head><title>Untitled Document</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></head> <frameset rows="108,556" cols="*"> <frame src="framehaut.html"> <frameset ...

I have written my own authentication module and would like to set per user schema on login. Can I write iwtUser-role, iwtCalendarProvider-calendarUserPassword, etc from the authentication class?

We've integrated a Channel using "Desktop Channel Wizard" based on a HTML-pageincluding a Java-Applet.Most URLs (HTML, Javascript etc.) are rewritten correctly.We also configured the gateway to rewrite the Applet Param-Tags, but they areonly rewritten when I open the page using "Bookmark ...

Hi there,We've implement iPS on our server, however we're still having some problemsaccessing iMS & iCS channels through iPS Gateway Server.Seems like iPSGateway couldn't rewrite the link properly. Below are the problems thatneed your help; really appreciate if anyone can share their ...

What parameters do I have to add to the ?action=logout section of menubar.html to automatically close the Netlet upon logout? Presumably there is no way to disable the users ability to close the browser without logging out?Is it possible to minimize the Netlet window upon login? Or better yet, ...

The [tag:content] tag in userTemplate.html dictates the location of the desktop content, namely ALL selected channels. Is there a way to seperate the physical positioning of a specific channel independantly on the main desktop? i.e. [tag:<channelname>] in the html of userTemplate? ...

Why a custom channel who extend ProfileAdapter without frame use bareProviderWrapper.html for template ?How can I change for use another template ?Thank you

I have some links defined at the domain level in the "Bookmarks Channel". They are standard URL structure, such as " http://internalserver.domain.com"I have the domains entered int he Gateway profile so they will be re-routed through our network.The problem is, when I click on the link that ...

I want to know a detailed picture of how content syndication works in iPS.I would appreciate you if you provide me some samples to work out (other than sample.rdf)Pls provide me the information ASAPThanks in advance

Can I use a proxy server to fetch external web content to be display on the portal desktop. My portal server resides behind the company firewall, but need to collect external RSS content. Any help will be appreciated. Thnx

I took the SSO example from the Portal server and included it in a servlet running an IPlanet App server. However I am getting the error: Session invalid: unknown protocol: httpswhen we do sess = Session.getSession(sid);Can someone point in the direction of what is causing the problem? The ...

Pls, any one guide me.What is a syndicated content?How to get it in iPS desktop?A real time small example to see the output on the iPS desktop.Pls ASAPThanks in advance

Suppose i have a portal server already developed with different roles, channels, layout and all kinds of customerization. How can I deploy them to another machine with the least effort? Thanks.

I am trying to create a channel that will have a certain number of application links appear on it. Each application link should open up a telnet netlet session with tghe appropriate server. Each link will call an applet and the applet will be responsible to opening up the telnet session with ...

After just installing Service Pack 3a, Some of the domains are just serving up blank html pages. The other thing is that some logins will get the right page, and some don't, and new logins always do not get the right page. The page is blank, and when you view the source, that's blank, too. ...

Hi,This is a peculiar problem that I am facing. I am working with iPS3.0SP3 on solaris8. My installation went fine. But when I try to access Admin console(thru Netscape 4.7 or 4.75), I have the login screen displayed. But, after I provide User and Password and hit Submit button, the browser ...

how to integrate 3rd party applications to iplanet portal server

I have build a Call-Journal JSP Desktop Channel that I would like to distribute to our customers. What would be the preferred way to accomplish this? It would be good if the customer does not have to use the Desktop Channel Wizard because I added some custom properties for the channel, which ...

I have a servlet that I launch from the iPlanet Portal. The Servlet is running on another WebServer. If I open the portal using the FQDN (i.e. http://myhost.mydomain:9999/login) and launch the Servlet the Session information is correctly passed. However, if I access the iPS using the IP Address ...

I used the Desktop Channel Wizard to create a channel from my JSPProvider. I entered the correct values into the JSP text fields (e.g. Content JSP = 'myChannelContent.jsp'). I can verify this when I click on 'edit channel' in the admin console. The correct values show up there (e.g. Content ...

Hi,i' m developing JSP channels. I know that i can create new attributes with value in the jsp session:session.setAttribute(aname, aval);But i want other channels to have access to this attributes. Is there a global Session where all jsp provider have access ?When not, which is the best way to ...

I'm extending the Portal API in my Java application, and I'm trying to get the Role for the user by calling the getRole() method for the UserProfile class. I'm getting the following profile exception Permission denied in getting attributes or privileges. What am I doing wrong?

why does this take more than 2 weeks ?