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Include Portlets

You can use the product to include CA SDM portlets in the portal.

To include portlets

  1. Log in to CA SDM and click Search from the Options Manager on the Administration tab.

    The Options List window appears.

  2. Click Portal_Safe_List.

    The Portal_Safe_list Detail window appears.

  3. Enter the servername:portnumber where the portal was installed in the Options Value Field.

    Note: For more information about this option, see the Online Help.

  4. Click Install.
  5. Restart CA SDM daemon.
  6. Log into CA Portal as an administrator.
  7. Create a user which is valid CA SDM User. For more information about how to create a user, see the CA Portal documentation.

    Note: The password used while creating this user in the portal could be different from the password used by this same user to log in to CA SDM, as CA SDM authenticates the users for this integration using a combination of the following, username, a valid CA Portal session and the CA Portal install value if it exits in the PORTAL_SAFE_LIST option.

  8. Select Knowledge from the main CA Portal menu bar.

    The Knowledge page appears.

  9. Select Library from the left pane Knowledge bar.

    The Library tree appears in the left pane.

  10. Select (or create then select, if necessary) a folder in the Library tree, then select Publish File from the right pane Knowledge bar.

    The Publish File form opens.

  11. Type the following CA SDM portlet URL in the Content text box on the General Information tab:
    http://hostname:portnumber/CAisd/PortalServlet?USERNAME=$USER.username$&PORTALSESSION=$SESSION$&PORTALINSTALL=portalhostname:portalportnumber
    

    Note: Substitute hostname:portnumber in the URL with the name and port of the web server on which CA SDM resides. Substitute portalhostname:portalportnumber in the URL with the name and port of the web server on which Portal resides.

  12. Enter CA SDM in the Title text box.
  13. Click Advanced.

    The Advanced properties page of the Publish File form displays.

  14. Enter portal/variable-url in the Content (mime) Type field and click Publish.

    The published contents appear in the selected Library folder.

  15. Configure the Workplace to display this portlet.
  16. Log out and log in as the newly created user. You should be automatically logged into CA SDM in the portlet you just created without logging in again.

Note: While running CA SDM in the portlet, the preference Avoid Popups is not available in the Preference page and a popup window is always used regardless of the setting of the preference.