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Student / Faculty / Parent Portals
with
Novell exteNd
Agenda
• What is Novell exteNd
• System requirements
•Q&A
• Installation
Creating your first portal
•Q & A
Questions?
Business dilemma
Your Business Employees Partners B2B Customers
Requirements
Leverage existing systems
Web Web
services services
Business Process Management
exteNd Composer XML Integration Services
Screen Connect Logic Connect Data Connect
3270, 5250 CICS/RPC, SAP, EDI,
Telnet, Tandem JMS/MQ Series XML, JDBC
DataGeneral
HP/3000, HTML
Deliver to Any User or Device
JSP Portlets Servlets .NET Java Client
exteNd Director Transcoding User Profiling Content mgmt.
Bus. Rules Workflow Search Caching WebDav
Web Web
services services
exteNd Composer
Business Process Management XML Integration Services
High Productivity
exteNd Director
Interaction & Portal Services Application Services
exteNd Web Web
Visual Development services services
Environment
exteNd Composer
Business Process Management XML Integration Services
Open, Standards-based Foundation
J2EE exteNd Director
Interaction & Portal Services Application Services
Novell exteNd Web Web
Visual Development services services
IBM
Environment
BEA
exteNd Composer
Sun Business Process Management XML Integration Services
Novell Nsure
Nterprise
Nsure Single Sign-On
J2EE exteNd Director
Novell exteNd
Visual Development User Profiling & Policy
IBM
Environment
BEA
Sun exteNd Composer
Access & Identity Synchronization
What is exteNd Director?
• A cross-platform web-based service delivery
framework
• Provides single point of access for web &
other resources
• Provides web-based single sign-on
capabilities
• Available in Enterprise or Standard
exteNd Standard 4.1 Key Features
• Identity-based content & management
–Roles, Membership
• Dynamic Groups
–Membership based on attributes
• Self and delegated management
–User customization
–Content assignment
exteNd Standard 4.1 Key features
• Communities
–Collaboration
–Calendars
–Chat
–Discussion
–Self / Delegated management
exteNd Standard 4.1 Key features
• Alta Vista Search
–Search results restricted based on
identity
• Standards based
–Java / J2EE
• XML
–Appearance & Settings
Directory Integration
Who you are in the
directory matters!!
All assignments are
based on user,
groups, containers…
even attributes
Directory Integration
exteNd Standard Gadgets
• Portal content provided by ‘Gadgets’
• exteNd Standard provides a broad set
of collaboration and integration gadgets
System Gadgets included with
exteNd
System HTML (SSO enabled)
Authentication RSS
Shortcut Self-Registration
PortalStats iFrame (SSO enabled)
Portal Admin User Admin
Password Mgmt XML Remote
Preferences
Application Gadgets included with
exteNd Standard
Applet Stock
- SSO-enabled - Portfolio
Citrix - Ticker
- SSO-enabled Network Files
Weather - SSO Enabled
News - NT/NetWare
Phonebook - iFolder
eGuide/White
Pages
Collaboration Gadgets included with
exteNd Standard
POP3/IMAP JDBC Database
- SSO-enabled Community
GroupWise - Chat
- SSO-enabled - Discussions
-Inbox/Calendar - Calendar
Lotus Notes - Documents
- SSO-enabled - Messages
Exchange
- SSO-enabled
exteNd Standard 4.1
Browser-based tools
Admin Tools
– Portal Administration
– User Admin
– Self Admin
Stylesheet Builder
– Generate themes with
no XML coding
– Quickly build and test
new looks and
navigation
exteNd Standard 4.1
End-User
– Professional Skin Designs
• Clean looks, java script,
flash, and more.
– Hierarchy
• Easier navigation and
more content in the
portal!
– Drag-and drop layout
– User Pages – Let users build their own!
– ‘Safe’ personalization with admin-defined limits
exteNd Standard 4.1
Portal ‘Commander’
– ‘Miniature Menu’ is
like a quicklaunch
bar for your portal
– Keeps portal session
alive/active
– Allows user to close
the ‘big window’
exteNd Standard Communities
Communities are designed to help people share
information. They are designed for end-users
and provide three ways to share information.
exteNd Standard Communities
Public: Anyone can see and or join the
community.
Restricted: Membership is requested and
approved by community owners.
Private: Users must be invited and accept the
invitation to join.
exteNd Standard Communities
These Community types provide excellent
flexibility in membership and fully allow end-
users to create, manage, and delete
communities without the involvement of IS&T.
Community Features
What can you do in a community?
Communities may provide six different
functions for the members they serve.
These functions can be configured by the
community owners and changed at
anytime. They include the following:
Community Features
News Simple news post area for community
admins to post news.
Links Community bookmark gadget for URLs.
Discussion Threaded discussions on topics that the
community decides.
Calendar A common shared calendar for community
related events.
Chat Chat with active community users
File Upload and download common files.
sharing
Community Features
These functions are selected at community
creation time and are available to the
community administrators to modify and
update as the community needs.
Search Features
AltaVista In-the-Box
– Leading search provider
– Multiple language support
– Multiple platforms
– Introduced in SP2 – with rights
based search now being added.
Search Features
Index Solution Scenario
– Dynamic association of classified indexes
(content directories) to portal
users/containers/portal groups
(communities).
– Easy to follow search interfaces, with
simple and advanced options.
Up next…
Novell exteNd
System requirements
Questions?
Stop
exteNd Standard Requirements
Operating Systems:
• Red Hat Linux 7
• Windows 2000 Server SP2
• Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6
• Netware 5 sp3
• Netware 6
• Solaris
exteNd Standard Requirements
Java Versions:
• 1.2.2 with LDAP/JNDI
• 1.3.x
• 1.4.x
Tip: Always use the JDK version for
your server OS if available
exteNd Standard Requirements
Web Server:
• Novell Enterprise Server 5.10
• Microsoft IIS 4.0/5.0
• Apache 1.3.14
• Apache 2
• iPlanet App Server w/servlet engine
exteNd Standard Requirements
Application Server:
• Apache Foundation – Tomcat 3.2 / 4.0
• IBM WebSphere 4
• iPlanet App Server w/servlet engine
exteNd Standard Requirements
LDAP v3 Directory:
• NDS eDirectory 8.5 or 8.6.1
exteNd Standard Requirements
Web Browser:
• Internet Explorer 4.01 or greater
• Netscape Communicator 4.5
• iPlanet App Server w/servlet engine
Up next…
Q&A
Q&A
Up next…
Novell exteNd
Installation
exteNd Standard Installation
Several different install scenarios
available – server side and client side
Most common:
– Install from a Windows workstation
– Make sure install PC has the Sun
JDK 1.3 installed
exteNd Standard Installation
Basic Steps
1. In Windows Explorer, locate the WAR
file and double-click
2. Copy to your App Server
3. Provide required install data
• Address of web server/app. server
• LDAP server information
• Container to place objects in, etc.
Up next…
Novell exteNd
Creating your first portal
Questions?
Creating your first Portal
Three basic steps:
1. Create and Assign a ‘Theme’
- Look and feel
2. Create and Assign pages
- Organization
3. Assign and configure Gadgets
- Content
Portal Administration
Login to the portal as Admin
Address for new install:
http://YourIP/nps
Address for NetWare 6 install:
http://YourIP:51080/nps
Launch Portal Admin
Launch Portal Admin
Create a Theme
1. Click on the Themes link on the left
2. Select the Create option
3. Fill out the fields
4. Choose a Portal Look or ‘Skin’
Launch Portal Admin
Create a Theme
Choose a Portal Look or ‘Skin’
Many themes are included
Unique looks (personalization) for
different groups/users are achieved by
using multiple themes
Examples:
Employees, Citizens, Contractors
Faculty, Students, Alumni
exteNd Standard 4.1
• Choose your
Picture Here appearance
exteNd Standard 4.1
• Choose your
Picture Here appearance
exteNd Standard 4.1
• Choose your
Picture Here appearance
exteNd Standard 4.1
• Choose your
Picture Here appearance
exteNd Standard 4.1
• Choose your
Picture Here appearance
Assign the Theme
Assign the theme to users, groups,
containers, dynamic groups, etc.
To get started, assign your theme at the
‘Organization’ level
Launch Portal Admin
Launch Portal Admin
Create a Page
• Pages are used to organize content
or ‘Gadgets’
• Create a Page by click on the Pages
link on the left side of the Portal
Admin window
• Click ‘Create’ under general options
Launch Portal Admin
Launch Portal Admin
Add Content to the Page
• At the ‘Page Saved’ window, click on
Edit
• Click on Add under ‘Gadget
Assignments’
Launch Portal Admin
Add Content to the Page
• Select iFrame from the list, then click
Add
• Enter ‘Home Page’ for Display
Name
• Click on the ‘Edit’ link next to ‘Wizard
to help specify…’
Add Content to the Page
• In the iFrame Viewer fill out:
URL: http://www.novell.com
Height: 600
Width: 600
• Click ‘Update’ to preview
• Click ‘Finish’
Add Content to the Page
• At the ‘Gadget Assignment’ window:
Click ‘Continue’
• At the ‘Edit a Page’ window:
Click ‘Save’
Launch Portal Admin
Launch Portal Admin
Launch Portal Admin
Assign the Page
Choose the Assign option to assign the
page to the Organization, as you did
with the Theme object earlier
Assign the Page
View Your Portal!
1. Logout from the Admin tool
2. Logout of the Portal
3. Login as a user!
What does a finished portal look like?
- Here is our Portal at Novell
Demonstration
What does a finished portal look like?
We’ll examine three:
- MHEC ‘FirstLook’
• A sample portal you can login to
• Content clipping, email, file access, Citrix
integration and more
• SSO-enabled
• You can login and test it yourself!
- Novell eLogin
- The Novell i-Login Portal
An example of Content Clipping
Done using the HTML Gadget
• Not good on Framed pages
• May cause problems with
JavaScript
– Use iFrame for these!
• Nice to add in ‘legacy’ content, or
to pull (legal!) external content in
Login to FirstLook!
1. Go to
http://www.novellfirstlook.com
2. Login as:
• User: MHEC1
• Password: ENTHYDB5
3. Explore!
Novell eLogin
1. Go to http://www.novell.com
2. Choose ‘My Novell’
- Create an account if you don’t have
one!
3. Login
4. Visit the Support link
5. Check out the hold times!
Data from a Telnet
application,
brought in with
exteNd Composer
i-Login.net
• Novell internal initiative started in 1999
• The Goals:
1. Use our own (and other vendors!)
products to transform Novell into a Net-
centric company
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i-Login.net
2. Deliver ALL services:
- From ‘Day Zero’ of employee start date
- As web-based resources, requiring only a
browser
- Relevant to role within the organization
- Major Initiatives from the CIO:
- eNlightened Workforce
- eBusiness Lifestyle
- eQuipped Workforce
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i-Login.net
Role- and Identity-Specific
Content
Address Book – Novell eGuide
Printing – Novell iPrint
File Access – Novell iFolder
Up next…
Q&A
Q&A
After Q & A:
Rob from MHEC