Portals_Portals
This section provides an overview of the Portals > Portals page and a description of the configuration tasks available on this page.
• Configuring General Portal Settings
• Enforcing Client Source Uniqueness
• Configuring Per-Portal Virtual Assist Settings
• Configuring Virtual Host Settings
For information about Application Offloading and the Offload Web Application button, see Portals > Application Offloading.
The Portals > Portals page allows the administrator to configure a custom portal for the SRA Portal login page as well as the portal home page.
Portal Settings
The Portal Settings section allows the administrator to configure a custom portal by providing the portal name, portal site title, portal banner title, login message, virtual host/domain name and portal URL. This section also allows the administrator to configure custom login options for control over what is displayed/loaded on login and logout, HTTP meta tags for cache control, ActiveX Web cache cleaner, login uniqueness, and client source uniqueness.
Legacy portals are indicated in the Description column. These portals retain the classic interface from SonicOS SRA releases prior to 3.5. The administrator may choose to keep a legacy portal rather than upgrade it if the portal has been customized or for other reasons.
Additional Information About the Portal Home Page
For most SRA administrators, a plain text home page message and a list of links to network resources is sufficient. For administrators who want to display additional content on the user portal, review the following information.
Modern Portals
• With the Tips/Help sidebar enabled, the width of the workspace is 561 pixels.
• With the Tips/Help sidebar disabled, the width of the workspace is 712 pixels.
• No IFRAME is used.
• You can upload a custom HTML file which will be displayed below all other content on the home page. You can also add HTML tags and JavaScript to the Home Page Message field.
• Since the uploaded HTML file will be displayed after other content, do not include <head> or <body> tags in the file.
Legacy Portals
• The home page is displayed in an IFRAME--internal HTML frame.
• The width of the iframe is 542 pixels, but since there is a 29 pixel buffer between the navigation menu and the content, the available workspace is 513 pixels.
• You can upload a custom HTML file which will be displayed below all other content on the home page. You can also add HTML tags and JavaScript to the Home Page Message field.
• Since the uploaded HTML file will be displayed after other content, do not include <head> or <body> tags in the file.
The administrator can customize a portal that appears as a customized landing page to users when they are redirected to the SRA appliance for authentication.
The network administrator may define individual layouts for the portal. The layout configuration includes menu layout, portal pages to display, portal application icons to display, and Web cache control options.
The default portal is the Virtual Office portal. Additional portals can be added and modified. To add a portal, perform the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Portals > Portals window and click the Add Portal button. The Portal Settings window is displayed.
Table 14The following table provides a description of the fields you may configure on the General tab. Refer to Configuring General Portal Settings for the specific steps required to configure a custom portal.
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