Solaris ISP Server 2.0 Installation Guide

Preface

Using this guide, you can install, upgrade, configure, and uninstall Solaris ISP Server^TM 2.0 platform extensions and services.

Who Should Use This Book

The audience for this book includes system administrators and individuals adding and configuring new workstations, setting up user accounts, and installing system-wide software.

Before You Read This Book

Before reading this book, you must have read "Introducing Solaris ISP Server" in Solaris ISP Server 2.0 Administration Guide.

How This Book is Organized

The chapters in this book discuss steps to install, upgrade, configure, and uninstall Solaris ISP Server 2.0 platform extensions and services.

Chapter 1, How to Plan Your Installation presents an overview (in flowcharts) of the installation process including:

Preinstallation tasks
Postinstallation tasks

Chapter 2, Setup Guidelines discusses:

Sample network configurations.
Changes to Solaris services and Solaris ISP Server admin file
Creating user-defined scripts

Chapter 3, Installation Requirements discusses:

Operating system requirements
Hardware requirements
Component dependencies

Chapter 4, Installing Solaris ISP Server 2.0 Software discusses the steps for:

Installing Solaris ISP Server 2.0 software from the browser
Installing Solaris ISP Server 2.0 software from the command line

Chapter 5, Upgrading to or Reinstalling Solaris ISP Server 2.0 Software discusses the steps for:

Upgrading to or reinstalling Solaris ISP Server 2.0 software from the browser
Upgrading to or reinstalling Solaris ISP Server 2.0 software from the command line

Chapter 6, Uninstalling Solaris ISP Server 2.0 Software discusses the steps for:

Uninstalling Solaris ISP Server 2.0 software from the browser
Uninstalling Solaris ISP Server 2.0 software from the command line

Chapter 7, Configuring Sun Internet Mail Server discusses steps for:

Integrating Sun^TM Internet Mail Server with Solaris ISP Server
Updating Solaris ISP Server Directory

Chapter 8, Starting and Configuring the Services discusses steps for:

Starting the license server to get the licenses for making entries in Sun Directory Services
Configuring HotJava^TM to support the applet security setting requirements of the components
Starting Sun^TM Internet Administrator^TM to initialize the entries in Sun Directory Services and to register to access and manage the services
Starting the services from Sun Internet Administrator or directly from a browser

Chapter 9, Error Messages discusses the error messages that you may receive while:

Installing or upgrading to Solaris ISP Server 2.0 software
Uninstalling Solaris ISP Server 2.0 software

Solaris ISP Server Related Documentation

Documentation related to Solaris ISP Server includes printed manuals, AnswerBooks, PostScript, PDF, and man pages. Each is listed below.

Manuals

Books that will support you in the installation and configuration process includes:

AnswerBook

These documents are provided as AnswerBook on the CD:

The Solaris ISP Server 2.0 Collection includes:
Sun Directory Services 3.1 Administration Guide
Sun Directory Services 3.1 User's Guide
SunScreen SKIP User's Guide, Release 1.1

PostScript and PDF Files

These documents are provided as PostScript^TM and PDF on the CD:

Man Pages

Each manual page, commonly known as a "man" page, discusses one subject, such as a user command or library function.

The location of Solaris ISP Server software man pages are listed below:

The host configuration and LDAP access API man pages are located in /opt/SUNWisp/man.
The JDK^TM 1.1.6 man pages are located in /usr/share/man.
The FLEXlm man pages are located in /opt/SUNWste/license_tools/man.
The Sun^TM Directory Services man pages are located in /opt/SUNWconn/man.
The Sunscreen^TM SKIP 1.1.1 man pages are located in /opt/SUNWicg/man.
The Sun^TM Internet FTP Server^TM man pages are located in /opt/SUNWixfta/1.1/man.
The Sun^TM Internet News Server^TM man pages are located in /opt/SUNWsns/man.
The Sun^TM WebServer^TM man pages are located in /usr/share/man.
The man pages for the Network Cache Accelerator are located in /usr/share/man
The Sun Internet Administrator man pages are located in /opt/SUNWixamc/man and /opt/SUNWisp/man.

Online Help

Application-specific information is provided in the form of online help for easy access while working with the software. Each software component has its own help set, accessible from the graphical user interface.

The `README` File

The Solaris ISP Server README.html file is a short file on the product CD that contains late breaking news, bugs, release information, and pointers to software readme files and documents for installing.

Definitions of Typefaces

The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions


Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output.	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output.	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
`AaBbCc123`	Placeholder to replace with a real name or value.	To delete a file, type `rm` `filename`.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words, or terms, or words to be emphasized.	Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts


Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	`machine_name%`
C shell superuser prompt	`machine_name%`
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	`$`
Borne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	`#`