Preface

Oracle Calendar is scalable calendaring software, based on open standards, for efficiently scheduling people, resources and events. Among other features, it offers 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, Linux, Solaris), 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 Administrator's Guide is directed at any administrator whose task is the installation, configuration, use and maintenance of Oracle Calendar in general, or of any Oracle Calendar components. This guide documents deployment, configuration and maintenance procedures for calendar components. It is a companion volume to the Oracle Calendar Reference Manual, which provides detailed information concerning configuration parameters and command-line administration utilities.

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Structure

This manual contains 17 chapters, 4 appendices and a glossary:

Chapter 1, "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.

Chapter 2, "Calendar Architecture"

This chapter examines the overall structure of the calendar server.

Chapter 3, "Calendar Deployment"

This chapter outlines the deployment and installation of your calendar server.

Chapter 4, "Directory Servers for Calendar"

This chapter contains an overview of how the Oracle Internet Directory interacts with the Oracle Calendar server, and information on using third-party directory servers when using the calendar server in a standalone installation.

Chapter 5, "Calendar Server Administration"

This chapter describes how to manage your calendar server using command-line utilities or the Calendar Administrator.

Chapter 6, "Setting Up Calendar Nodes"

This chapter describes how to setup and manage a calendar node.

Chapter 7, "Calendar Node Networks"

This chapter describes how to manage your network of calendar nodes.

Chapter 8, "Calendar Users"

This chapter describes the different tasks involved in managing users within a calendar server node.

Chapter 9, "Calendar Resources"

This chapter describes the various tasks involved in creating and managing resources.

Chapter 10, "Event Calendars"

This chapter describes the various tasks involved in creating and managing event calendars.

Chapter 11, "Administrative Rights"

This chapter contains an overview of the administrative rights that can be assigned to users, and the methods available for assigning those rights.

Chapter 12, "Groups"

This chapter describes the different tasks involved in managing groups and group members within a calendar server node network.

Chapter 13, "Holidays"

This chapter describes the various tasks involved in creating and managing holidays.

Chapter 14, "Alerts"

This chapter contains general considerations relating to the server-side implementation of reminders and notifications.

Chapter 15, "Node Maintenance"

This chapter outlines the procedures for server maintenance, server back up and restore and user back up and restore.

Chapter 16, "Monitoring Procedures"

This chapter describes how you can monitor the Calendar Server by viewing and interpreting log files.

Chapter 17, "Oracle Calendar Application System"

This chapter provides an overview of the Oracle Calendar application system, including a summary of its components, architecture information and installation considerations.

Appendix A, "Disk Space and Memory"

This appendix describes the disk space and memory requirements of the calendar server.

Appendix B, "Adjusting Calendar Kernel Parameters"

This appendix details the modifications that must be made to certain kernel parameters and operating environments in order to ensure that sufficient resources are allocated to the calendar server.

Appendix C, "Security"

This appendix describes the structure and configuration of the authentication, compression and encryption methods, details additional security considerations for installations using a directory server, and a number of other measures that may be employed to further protect calendar data.

Appendix D, "International Support"

This appendix contains information relating to international installations of the calendar server.

Conventions

In this manual, Windows and NT are both used to refer to the Windows2000 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.