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Oracle Calendar System Administration

This chapter is an introduction to the administration requirements of Oracle Calendar, and the management tools and utilities available to you.

• General Administration Concerns
• Oracle Calendar Administrator
• Command-Line Utilities

General Administration Concerns

Administration concerns for Oracle Calendar fall into four broad categories:

• Initial deployment planning, including sizing estimates and operating system configuration. Throughout this guide you will find a variety of information to aid you in designing a deployment that will meet your needs efficiently and effectively, including common deployment scenarios, recommended sizing guidelines, recommended kernel parameter settings for UNIX platforms and more.
• Installing the Oracle Calendar software and performing basic initial configuration. This information can be found in the Oracle Collaboration Suite Installation Guide.
• Performing ongoing system maintenance, such as tuning calendar configuration parameters according to anticipated and observed usage, backing up the calendar database and monitoring the system. Most of these tasks can be performed using a variety of command-line administration tools provided with the calendar server.
• Managing the information in the calendar database, such as adding and modifying calendar users, resources, event calendars, holidays, groups, etc. Most of these tasks can be performed using either command-line utilities or the Calendar Administrator.

Oracle Calendar Administrator

The Oracle Calendar administrator is an on-line server management tool that allows users and administrators to manage user accounts, resources, event calendars, groups and holidays in the calendar server database. In addition, the Oracle Calendar administrator provides easy access to basic system administration tasks such as viewing the status of calendar nodes and databases, and starting or stopping nodes and servers.

Command-Line Utilities

The Oracle Calendar server comes with a number of command-line utilities that provide scriptable control over a wide range of calendar server information and features. These command-line utilities are installed in the /bin subdirectory within your calendar server's installation directory.

For a complete list of the utilities included with your calendar server and full details on their operation, see the Oracle Calendar Reference Manual.