Preface

Oracle Calendar is scalable calendaring software, based on open standards, for efficiently scheduling people and resources. Among other features, it offers a dedicated database, real-time lookups and free-time searches, multiple time zone support and UTF-8 encoding to support international deployments, e-mail and wireless alerts, multi-platform support and an extensible Authentication, Compression and Encryption (ACE) framework for enhanced security.

The Oracle Calendar server is the back end to an integrated suite of calendaring and scheduling products. Networked users can use a desktop client (Windows, Macintosh, Motif), Web client or Microsoft Outlook to manage their calendars. Mobile users can synchronize their agendas with a variety of PDAs or, with the addition of Oracle's wireless technology, can send and receive calendar entries using a mobile phone.

Oracle Calendar is part of Oracle Collaboration Suite, offering integrated e-mail, voice mail, calendaring and wireless services. For more information on the other components of Oracle Collaboration Suite, please see Oracle's Web site or consult the relevant product documentation.

Intended Audience

This Reference Manual documents the configuration parameters and utilities included with your calendar server. This guide is directed at any administrator whose task is the installation, configuration, use and maintenance of Oracle Calendar in general and the Oracle Calendar server in particular. It is a companion volume to the Oracle Calendar Administrator's Guide, which documents deployment, configuration and maintenance procedures for your calendar server.

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Structure

This manual contains six reference appendices:

Appendix A, "Calendar User and Resource Parameters"

This appendix contains information on configuration parameters that set default values for user and resource attributes.

Appendix B, "Event Calendar Parameters"

This appendix contains information on configuration parameters that set default values for event calendar attributes.

Appendix C, "Calendar Server Parameters"

This appendix contains information on configuration parameters that control the behaviour of your calendar server.

Appendix D, "Calendar Administrator Parameters"

This appendix contains information on parameters that control the Calendar Administrator interface.

Appendix E, "Calendar Application System Parameters"

This appendix lists and describes all tunable parameters available to configure the Oracle Calendar application system (OCAS) and its components.

Appendix F, "Calendar Server Utilities"

This appendix contains information on the use and syntax of the command-line utilities provided for administering your calendar server.

Appendix G, "Time Zone Table"

This appendix provides a mapping between regions and their associated time zone classifications.

Appendix H, "Calendar Extensions to Directory Server Schema"

This appendix contains detailed information on the calendar-specific information stored in the Oracle Internet Directory.

Appendix I, "Calendar Error Code Categories"

This appendix contains general information on the functional area associated with each category of calendar server error codes.

Appendix J, "Calendar Server Error Codes"

This appendix contains information on the most frequently encountered calendar server error codes such as the error code ID, error name, an explanation of the probable causes, and a recommended action.

Conventions

In this manual, Windows and NT are both used to refer to the Windows95, Windows98, and Windows NT operating systems.

In examples, an implied carriage return occurs at the end of each line, unless otherwise noted. You must press the Return key at the end of a line of input.

The following conventions are also used in this manual:

Convention	Meaning
. . .	Vertical ellipsis points in an example mean that information not directly related to the example has been omitted.
. . .	Horizontal ellipsis points in statements or commands mean that parts of the statement or command not directly related to the example have been omitted
boldface text	Boldface type in text indicates a term defined in the text, the glossary, or in both locations.
`monospaced font`	This typeface is used for any text that appears on the computer screen or text that you should type. It is also used for file and path names and functions.
Cmd line	Refers to a procedure executed on the command line (UNIX or NT) using a calendar server utility.
Web GUI	Refers to a procedure executed using the Calendar Administrator, an Web administrative tool.
/	Forward-slashes are used to separate directories in a path name, following UNIX syntax. For Windows operating systems, substitute back-slashes "\" for all forward-slashes unless otherwise instructed.
< >	Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names and variables.
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.