Before Installing

Before beginning the tasks in the chapter, you should have developed an installation sequence and ensured that any general installation requirements and prerequisites are met.

• Verifying Prerequisites

• Getting the Software

• How to Use the Text-Based Interface

Verifying Prerequisites

Refer to Verifying General Installation Prerequisites for specific information on prerequisites for this release of Communications Suite.

You can find system requirements for Communications Suite products listed in the Sun Java Communications Suite 5 Release Notes. For Java ES products, see Platform Requirements and Issues in Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Release Notes for UNIX.

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Note –

You must use Access Manager Legacy (6.x) installation type if you are installing Access Manager with Messaging Server, Calendar Server, Delegated Administrator, or Instant Messaging. Access Manager Realm (7.x) installation type can only be used if you are not installing any of these product components.

• For Configure Now: On the Access Manager: Administration (1 of 7) page, select Legacy (version 6.x style). On the Access Manager: Web Container for running Access Manager (4 of 7) page. set the Console Deployment URI to amconsole (the default value).

• For Configure Later: As root, run the amconfig script to configure Access Manager after installation. To select the Legacy (6.x) installation type, set the following parameters in your configuration script input file, amsamplesilent:

  • AM_REALM=disabled

  • CONSOLE_DEPLOY_URI=/amconsole

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Getting the Software

• For Download. Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the Communications Suite installation bundle and expand the bundle. For example:

  unzip compressed-file.zip

  You will see a Copyright file, a README directory and the operating system directory, for example, Solaris_sparc. In the operating system directory, you will see the Product directory, the release_info file, and the installer script.

• For CD. Navigate to a directory that is not on the CD so that you can switch CDs during the installation session. For example:

  cd /tmp

  You will run the installer command using the fully qualified path to the installer. For example:

  mountpoint/os_arch/installer

  In this example, mountpoint is where you mounted the CD and os_arch matches your platform, such as Solaris_sparc.

• For DVD. Navigate to the DVD directory whose name matches your platform.

How to Use the Text-Based Interface

The text-based installer does not display a graphical interface, but instead prompts you for information using a series of questions. The following table describes how to respond to the installer’s text-based prompts.

Table 4–1 Responding to the Text-Based Installer Prompts

Action	Input
To accept default values, as indicated in square brackets [ ]	Press Return.
To select items from a list	Type the numbers for the items in a comma-separated sequence and press Return. Spaces are not allowed. For example, to select item 2 in a list, type 2 and press Return. To select items 1, 3, and 4, type 1,3,4 and press Return.
To deselect items from a list	Type the numbers for the items in a comma-separated sequence, entering the minus character (-) before each number, and press Return. Spaces are not allowed. For example, to deselect item 2 from the list, type -2 and press Return. To deselect items 1, 3, and 4, type -1,-3,-4 and press Return.
To provide a value to a text field	Type the value and press Return.
To provide a password	Type the password and press Return.  The password will not appear on the terminal window.
To return to the previous page	Type the left angle (<) character and press Return.
To exit the session	Type the exclamation mark character (!) and press Return.