Starting Sun Internet Administrator

To manage Solaris for ISPs services through Sun Internet Administrator, you must register those services with Sun Internet Administrator. Optionally, you can create administrators for each managed service, or for groups of services.

The administrator you specified during installation has global access to Sun Internet Administrator and to all services managed from it.

To configure Sun Internet Administrator to manage your services, first install and configure a Sun Directory Services host and all service hosts. See Chapter 3 of Solaris for ISPs Administration Guide for information on the design of a Solaris for ISPs system.

Sun Internet Administrator requires a properly configured and running Sun Directory Services server in order to function. Be sure that the services are running before proceeding. Ensure that you reboot the system before attempting to access Sun Internet Administrator

1. Sun Internet Administrator makes initial entries in the directory services and requires those entries to be able to run.

   • If Sun Directory Services was running when you installed Sun Internet Administrator, the entries have already been initialized.

   • If you installed Sun Internet Administrator and Sun Directory Services together, the entries have already been initialized.

   • If the directory services were not running, you must initialize the Sun Internet Administrator entries.

   To initialize the entries, obtain root access and enter:
   • # /opt/SUNWixamc/bin/mcdsinit
   • -d DNofDSAdmin
   • -n ConsoleAdmin

   where

   -d DNofDSAdmin

   Is the distinguished name of the Sun Directory Services administrator you specified when installing the directory services (For example, cn=admin,o=sun,c=US).

   -n ConsoleAdmin

   Is the name of the administrator for Sun Internet Administrator that you specified at the time of installation.

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   The values you enter in these two fields must exactly match the values you entered when installing the software.

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2. You will be prompted for the:

   DA administrator password:

   Enter the password of the administrator of Sun Directory Services.

   IA administrator password:

   Enter the password of the administrator of Sun Internet Administrator console.

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   The passwords you enter here must exactly match the passwords you specified when installing the software.

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   The remainder of this procedure does not require root access. You can now access Sun Internet Administrator from a browser.

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   For more information on mcdsinit, refer to the man page. To view a man page, enter man -M /opt/SUNWixamc/man command, where command is the command whose man page you want to view.

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3. Start one of the supported Web browsers (for example, HotJava 1.1.5) and access the URL: http://<hostname>:50080/ispmc.

   Where <hostname> is the name of the machine where you installed Sun Internet Administrator. If you configured the administration Web server to another port other than the default, 50080, enter that port number.

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   To make accessing Sun Internet Administrator easier, you may want to make a bookmark of this URL.

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4. Log in to get global access to the product and all services this Sun Internet Administrator manages. To log in

   1. Choose Register Services.

   2. Enter the administrator name and password you specified during installation of Sun Internet Administrator.

   3. Register the services and create additional administrators by referring to on line help.

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   From this step on, all information is also available in the Sun Internet Administrator on line help.

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5. For each service to be managed through Sun Internet Administrator:

   1. Go to the Register Services screen by clicking the link in the table of contents pane.

   2. Enter the name of the host computer where the service you want to register is installed and click on Register Host.

   3. Select the desired services from the list, and click on Register Services Selected Above.

6. (Optional) If you want to create additional administrators, go to the Manage Administrators screen by clicking the link in the table of contents pane. Follow the steps in the on-line help.

Whenever you install additional Solaris for ISPs services, you can add them to the console by following these steps.