Administer Project and Portfolio Management

This document provides information about how to install, configure, and maintain the Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) system. If you are not installing PPM for the first time, but need instructions on how to upgrade from an earlier version, see the Upgrade Guide.

The sections in this document provide the following information about PPM and how to administer the system:

• Overview of PPM system architecture and of single-server and server cluster system configuration (System Overview)

• Details on how to configure all components of the PPM system and to start and stop the PPM Server (Configure the system)

• Information that PPM users need to know in order to use the PPM Workbench (Configure the system)

• Advanced configuration information, including details on how to configure an external Web server and PPM Server clusters (Advanced system configuration)

• Information on how to integrate PPM with an LDAP server (Advanced system configuration)

• Information about the kinds of performance issues that can arise, and how to identify and resolve them (Improve system performance)

• Information on how to migrate entire instances of PPM, and on how to migrate just the database schemas (Migrating Instances)

• Details on how to maintain the PPM and the database after installation and configuration (Maintain the system)

• Details on how to use the entity migrators to migrate specific kinds of PPM entities and associated objects between instances of PPM (Migrating Entities)

• PPM Server configuration parameters (PPM Configuration parameters)

• Details about PPM directories and the scripts and tools they contain (Server directory structure and server tools)

This document is written for users who are moderately knowledgeable about enterprise application development and skilled in enterprise system and database administration. It is written for:

• Application developers and configurators

• System and instance administrators

• Database administrators (DBAs)