Sun Open Telecommunications Platform 2.0 Installation Guide

Preface

Sun Open Telecommunications Platform 2.0 Installation Guide describes how to install the Sun^TM Open Telecommunications Platform (Sun OTP) software in the development environment.

The following topics are discussed:

What is Sun OTP?

Sun Open Telecommunications Platform (Sun OTP) provides integrated high availability services, system management services, application provisioning services, and security services that enable you to develop, deploy, host, and secure Network Equipment Provider (NEP) applications.

Sun OTP version 2.0 provides the following services:

Provisioning Service

Provisioning service consists of platform and application provisioning services.

Platform Provisioning

The platform provisioning service enables end-to-end provisioning of Sun OTP compute elements, including bare metal and firmware provisioning, operating system provisioning, and provisioning of Sun OTP software components.

Application Provisioning

The application provisioning service enables end-to-end provisioning of (NEP) applications, including initial application deployment, application upgrade, and application patching. Application provisioning services are capable of deploying applications on a single system, or on a group of systems that follow a set of defined grouping semantics. These services are also capable of deploying both single and multi-tier applications.

The following operations are supported by the application provisioning service:

Creating application deployment descriptions
Modifying application deployment descriptions
Deleting application deployment descriptions
Provisioning applications on hosts
Provisioning a multi-tier application
Inspecting deployed software on hosts at a specific point
Removing applications from hosts
Removing a multi-tier application
Rolling back to previous version of applications
Queryingdeployed applications on hosts

Management Service

Management service consists of platform management and application management services.

Platform Management

The platform management service enables monitoring and managing the Sun OTP compute elements. This includes monitoring and managing the bare metal hardware and deployed operating system instances. The platform management service can manage both stand-alone systems and two or more systems grouped together into an administrative group.

Application Management

The application management service enables management of NEP applications. Supported operations include application health monitoring, failure recovery and migration from one Sun OTP instance to another.

Availability Service

The availability service consists of platform availability and application availability services.

Platform Availability

The platform availability service enables availability of the Sun OTP compute elements.

Application Availability

The application availability service enables basic lifecycle and availability management of NEP applications. Supported lifecycle operations include registration, activation, and deactivation of applications.

The following operations are supported by the application lifecycle and availability management services:

Creating application manifests
Modifying application manifests
Deleting application manifests
Creating application dependencies
Modifying application dependencies
Deleting application dependencies
Registering applications
Starting applications
Stopping applications
Querying application state
Migrating applications from host A to host B
Failing over applications from host A to host B
Restarting applications on host X

Security Service

The security service is used to secure NEP applications by authenticating Web applications through a Web Single Sign-On (Web SSO) feature. Once you log into a web-based administration interface in Sun OTP, you can access the other web-based administration interfaces without any reauthentication. Additionally, you can use the Solaris Security Toolkit (SST) driver to harden the Sun OTP application hosting environment (AHE) to improve the overall network security.

Target Audience

OEM developers who wish to install Sun OTP in their development environment and integrate their applications with Sun OTP.

Component Product Mapping

The following figure shows the components that are part of Sun OTP 2.0.

Figure P–1 Component Product Mapping

Picture showing the components that are part of Sun OTP
2.0

Supported Versions

The following table shows the OS and component versions that are supported by Sun OTP 2.0.

Table P–1 Sun OTP 2.0 Supported Versions


OS and Components	Version
Solaris^TM OS	10 Update 3
Sun Cluster	3.2
Sun N1^TM Service Provisioning System	5.2.4
Sun N1 System Manager	1.3.3
OS Provisioning Plug-in	3.2
Sun Java^TM System Web Server	7.0 Update 1
Sun Java System Directory Server	6.1 Enterprise Edition
Sun Java System Access Manager	7.1
Solaris Security Toolkit	4.2

Sun OTP Documentation Set

Sun OTP guides are available as online files in PDF and HTML formats. The following table lists the tasks and concepts described in each guide.

Table P–2 Sun OTP Documentation Set


Documentation	Purpose
Sun Open Telecommunications Platform 2.0 Release Notes	Late-breaking information about the software and documentation
Sun Open Telecommunications Platform 2.0 Installation Guide	Provides the procedure for installing Sun OTP in the development environment

The complete Sun OTP documentation is available at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/1629.4.

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