Getting started with administrators |
The administrator has the highest authority, and the main responsibility is to manage modules of the entire SuperMap iPortal and ensure the system's normal operation.
After installing, starting iPortal, and creating your administrator account, log in to the portal and click "Management" to visit the management interface (http://localhost:8190/iportal/admin-ui/home/ ). According to actual business needs, you can configure the portal site, customize the appearance of the portal, manage resources within the portal, view the operation status, issue news notifications, manage feedback, etc.
Before installing iPortal, the administrator needs to verify whether the system software and hardware configuration meets the installation requirements (For details, please refer to: System Configuration Requirements), modify the firewall settings to allow communication on the port used by iPortal, and ensure that you have obtained the product's license. For detailed installation instructions, see: iPortal Installation Guide.
And the administrator also needs to master the upgrade of the iPortal product version. Starting from the SuperMap iPorta 8C SP1 version, a product upgrade script file is provided in the product package. Administrators can use the script file to quickly complete the iPortal version upgrade. For details, see: Product Upgrade.
After completing the iPortal installation, run the startup.bat (startup.sh) file in the %SuperMap iPortal_HOME%/bin directory to start the iPortal service. It should be noted that for SuperMap iPortal 10i+, when starting iPortal in the Linux operating system, it must be started as a non-root user. For details, see: FAQ.
To stop the service, just run the shutdown.bat (shutdown.sh) file in the %SuperMap iPortal_HOME%/bin directory.
After the service is started, when you visit the SuperMap iPortal homepage (http://localhost:8190/iportal) for the first time, if you didn't configure the account initialization, you will be redirected to the administrator account creation page first. After the creation is successful, you can enter the SuperMap iPortal homepage. After logging in to the portal, you can modify the security question on the "My Profile" page for resetting the password in case you forgot the password some day.
Note: If you didn't set a security question for your administrator account, and have forgotten the password, you can recreate it (see: FAQ).
In the actual production environment, as an administrator, you can configure the portal site according to your own business needs, to tailor a series of portal functions that meet the actual application of users and quickly build a GIS portal software platform. Specifically, you can configure the following in the portal site:
After completing the site configuration, you can visually customize the appearance of the portal according to your own business needs and industry characteristics, such as the portal homepage, theme and display language, etc.
The administrator has the authority to uniformly manage all resources in iPortal. First, you can add some public demonstration data to the portal through the service registration function to initialize the portal data to facilitate users to experience the portal functions. After importing the portal data, you can uniformly manage the maps, scenes, data, projects, insights, dashboards, groups, and notebook resources, such as enabling map/service review function, setting resource sharing scopes, etc. In portal applications involving multi-level units or departments, you can also configure the organizational structure to achieve hierarchical management of administrators, so that administrators at all levels can manage the resources of their respective units or departments in the portal.
As an administrator of iPortal, you need to understand the overall status of the portal (total number of users, total number of resources, etc.), development status (changes in the number of users, changes in the number of resources, etc.), usage (resource visits, etc.), log information, and license information, to better manage the portal. Based on this, iPortal provides Portal Statistics, Logs Management, and viewing License Information functions to help you view and monitor the operation of the portal in real time. In order to improve the efficiency of the portal software platform and ensure the stable operation of the portal, you can also enable the Resource Recovery Regularly function to regularly clean up temporary resources in the portal.
As the portal administrator, you may need to send some industry news, news notifications, and other information to all users in the portal. Based on this, iPortal provides the News Center module for you to edit and publish news notifications online, and manage all news items.
iPortal provides the feedback function to help ordinary users (including anonymous users) online give feedbacks on problems encountered during the use and give comments and suggestions. As a portal administrator, you can manage all feedback items received in the portal, retrieve, view, review, and reply to users' feedback.