Chapter 1 Planning Mobile Access Software Installation

Before you install Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Mobile Access 6.2 software, you must meet the system requirements for this product, and you must decide whether you need to install a patch for Sun™ ONE Portal Server 6.2 software.

This chapter provides the information you need to review before installing the software:

System Requirements

Be sure that you already have Sun™ ONE Portal Server 6.2 software installed. Because Mobile Access requires Portal Server and its underlying components, Portal Server must be installed and operating correctly before you begin installing Mobile Access software.

For details on Sun ONE Portal Server 6.2 software, including installation instructions, refer to documentation for Sun™ ONE Portal Server 6.2 software.

Table 1-1 provides hardware and software requirements for this release of Portal Server, Mobile Access software. Each hardware or software component is listed in the first column, and its related requirement is listed in the second column.

Table 1-1 System Requirements for Mobile Access 6.2 Installation
Component	Requirement
Operating system	Solaris™ 8 Operating System or Solaris 9 Operating System
CPU	Dual CPU class system
RAM	512 Mbytes
Disk space	1 Gbyte
Swap space	1 Gbyte
Web container	Sun™ ONE Web Server 6.1 Sun™ ONE Application Server 7.0, Platform Edition, Update 2 Sun ONE Application Server 7.0, Standard Edition software
Web browser	Netscape™ Communicator 6.2x or higher Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6.0 Clients using cHTML, iHTML, JHTML, XHTML, HDML, VoiceXML, and WML

Patch 116441-01 or Higher

Several bugs in the Portal Server 6.2 software adversely affect how Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange address book, calendar, and mail applications function. Patch 116441-01 or higher for Portal Server 6.2 software provides fixes for these defects. See Appendix A, "Patch 116441-01 Reference," for details about these bugs.

Installing this patch for Portal Server 6.2 is strongly recommended if you plan to offer these applications to your mobile portal users now or in the future. This patch is available on the Mobile Access 6.2 software CD-ROM and is also available for download at http://www.sun.com.

To Install Portal Server Patch

Become superuser with the su command.

Stop Portal Server.

Change the current directory to the location where the patch is:

cd /tmp_patchdir

Use the patchadd command:

/usr/sbin/patchadd 116441-01

When the installation is finished, see /var/sadm/patch/116441-01/log to view detailed information about your installation.

Enter /opt/SUNWps/bin/deploy .

Restart Portal Server.