Preface

The Sun Open Telecommunications Platform 1.0 Installation and Administration Guide describes the requirements for installing and configuring the Sun Open Telecommunications Platform (OTP) software on your OTP system.

Who Should Use This Book

This guide is intended for system administrators who are responsible for installing the Open Telecommunications Platform hardware and software. The system administrators must have extensive knowledge and experience in the following areas:

• The Solaris^TM operating systems and the network administration tools provided by the Solaris operating system

• DNS, DHCP, IP addressing, subnetworks, VLANs, SNMP, TFTP, and NFS

How This Book Is Organized

• Chapter 1, Sun Open Telecommunications Platform Introduction provides an overview of the Open Telecommunications Platform and a summary of the installation process.

• Chapter 2, Sun Open Telecommunications Platform Hardware and Software Requirements provides hardware and software requirements, and descriptions of the settings and worksheets for the settings needed for installation and configuration.

• Chapter 3, Preparing Servers for Open Telecommunications Platform Installation provides the procedures for installing and configuring the operating system on the servers selected for the Open Telecommunications Platform system, creating the cluster file system, and verifying system settings.

• Chapter 4, Installing the Open Telecommunications Platform Using the Command Line provides the procedures for using the command line interface to install the Open Telecommunications Platform on the servers selected for the Open Telecommunications Platform system.

• Chapter 5, Installing the Open Telecommunications Platform Using the Graphical User Interface provides the procedures for using the external OTP installation server and the graphical user interface to install Open Telecommunications Platform on the servers selected for the Open Telecommunications Platform system.

• Chapter 6, Installing the Open Telecommunications Platform Using an Existing OTP System provides the procedures for using an existing production OTP System to install and configure OTP on a new standalone OTP host or a new clustered OTP system.

• Chapter 7, Backing Up and Restoring the OTP System Management Service provides the procedures for backing up the OTP system management service database and configuration files and restoring the database and configuration files to the fail-over host.

• Appendix A, Application Programming Interfaces and Protocols lists the application programming interfaces (APIs) and protocols you can use for application development.

• Glossary provides definitions of Open Telecommunications Platform terms.

Related Documentation

This guide is part of a three-volume implementation reference set. Read the release notes and the installation guide before installing the Open Telecommunications Platform.

• Sun Open Telecommunications Platform 1.0 Release Notes

• Sun Open Telecommunications Platform 1.0 Installation and Administration Guide

Before You Read This Book

Before reading this book, you should read the Sun Open Telecommunications Platform 1.0 Release Notes and be familiar with the general design of OTP software.

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Typographic Conventions

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

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	machine_name% su Password:
aabbcc123	Placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is rm filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

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

Table P–2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine_name%
C shell for superuser	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser	#