About This Guide


This Installation Guide offers an introduction to iPlanet Policy Agent Pack 1.0 and describes how to and install URL policy agents on Web and Proxy Servers.

This preface contains the following sections:

• What You Are Expected to Know

• Documentation Conventions Used in This Manual

• Related Information

What You Are Expected to Know

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This book is considered an auxiliary manual in the documentation series provided with iPlanet™ Directory Server Access Management Edition. It's essential that you understand directory technologies and have some experience with Java and XML programming languages. You will get the most out of this guide if you are familiar with directory servers and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Particularly, you should be familiar with iPlanet Directory Server and the documentation provided with that product.

This guide is intended for use by IT professionals who manage access to their network through iPlanet servers and services. The functionality contained in iPlanet DSAME allows you to manage user data and enforce access policies throughout your enterprise.

As you try to understand the concepts described in this guide, you should reference the iPlanet DSAME Installation and Configuration Guide and the iPlanet DSAME Programmer's Guide.

Documentation Conventions Used in This Manual

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In the iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition documentation (such as this guide) there are certain typographic and terminology conventions used to simplify discussion and to help you better understand the material. These conventions are described below.

Typographic Conventions

This book uses the following typographic conventions:

• Italic type is used within text for book titles, new terminology, emphasis, and words used in the literal sense.

• Monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), filenames, pathnames, directory names, HTML tags, and any text that must be typed on the screen.

• Italic serif font is used within code and code fragments to indicate variable placeholders. For example, the following command uses filename as a variable placeholder for an argument to the gunzip command:

    gunzip -d filename.tar.gz

Terminology

Below is a list of the general terms that are used in the iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition documentation set:

• DSAME refers to iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition and any installed instances of the iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition software.

• Policy and Management Services refers to the collective set of iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition components and software you have installed and running a dedicated Web Server. The dedicated Web Server is installed for you automatically when you install the Police and Management Services.

• Web Server that runs DSAME services refers to the dedicated Web Server where the Policy and Management Servers are installed.

• Directory Server refers to an installed instance of iPlanet Directory Server or Netscape™ Directory Server.

• Agent_root is a variable placeholder for the directory where you have installed the URL Policy Agent.

• Web_Server_root is a variable placeholder for the home directory where you have installed iPlanet Web Server.

Related Information

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This book is considered an auxiliary manual in the documentation series provided with iPlanet™ Directory Server Access Management Edition (DSAME). The DSAME documentation set contains the following titles:

• Installation and Configuration Guide describes DSAME and provides details on how to plan and install DSAME on Solaris systems.

• Administration Guide documents how to manage user and service data in an iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition system once it has been installed.

• Programmer's Guide documents how to customize DSAME interfaces.

• iPlanet Policy Agent Pack Installation Guide (this guide) provides DSAME policy agents and provides details for installing them.

• The Release Notes file gathers an assortment of information, including a description of what is new in this release, last minute installation notes, known problems and limitations, and how to report problems.

  
  

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  Note	Be sure to check the DSAME documentation web site for updates to the release notes and for revisions to the guides. http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/dsame.html

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In addition to the documentation provided with DSAME, you should be familiar with several other sets of documentation that can be used with this book. Of particular interest are iPlanet Web Server and iPlanet Proxy Server documentation sets. You can access these on the Internet at the following URLs:

iPlanet Web Server Documentation
You can find the iPlanet Web Server documentation at the following site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/enterprise.html

iPlanet Proxy Server Documentation
You can find the iPlanet Proxy Server documentation at the following site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/proxy.html

Other iPlanet Product Documentation
Documentation for all iPlanet and Netscape servers and technologies can be found at the following web site:

http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/

iPlanet Technical Support
You can contact iPlanet Technical Support through the following location:

http://www.iplanet.com/support/