1 Calendar Server System Administration Overview

This chapter provides an overview of Oracle Communications Calendar Server, and describes the basic administration tasks and tools used to perform those tasks.

About Calendar Server

Oracle Communications Calendar Server (also referred to as Calendar Server 7 and formerly known as Oracle Communications Calendar Server for CALDAV Clients and Sun Java System Calendar Server) is a carrier-grade, highly scalable, secure, and reliable calendaring and scheduling platform. Calendar Server is compliant with the latest calendaring and scheduling standards, including the CalDAV access protocol, which makes it usable with Apple iCal, iPhone, Thunderbird Lightning, and any other CalDAV client.

Calendar Server provides a number of calendaring and scheduling capabilities, including:

Personal appointments (one-time/recurring) and reminders
Multiple calendars per user (Work calendar, Home calendar)
Document store for storing event/task attachments
Multiple access points, including desktop clients (Apple iCal, Outlook, Lightning), Convergence web client, and mobile clients (iPhone, Android)
Availability checks
Invitation notifications
Special handling of resource scheduling
Comprehensive access control settings including settings for groups
Sharing and subscription of calendars

Overview of Calendar Server Administration Tasks

A Calendar Server administrator is responsible for the day-to-day tasks of maintaining and managing Calendar Server and its users. The tasks also include managing Calendar Server components, GlassFish Server, and potentially other Unified Communications Suite components.

You perform the following tasks as a Calendar Server administrator:

Stopping and starting Calendar Server
Managing calendar accounts
Monitoring Calendar Server
Tuning Calendar Server performance
Migrating data to Calendar Server
Managing the Calendar Server back-end database
Backing up and restoring files
Troubleshooting Calendar Server

About Calendar Server Administration Tools

Calendar Server is deployed on an Oracle GlassFish Server domain. You use the GlassFish Server Administration Console and asadmin command to manage the Calendar Server web container. See the GlassFish Server documentation for more information.

Calendar Server provides a number of command-line utilities for administering the server. These utilities run under the umbrella command, davadmin. For more information, see "Calendar Server Command-Line Utilities."

Directory Placeholders Used in This Guide

Table 1-1 lists the placeholders that are used in this guide:

Table 1-1 Calendar Server Directory Placeholders

Placeholder	Directory
CalendarServer_home	Specifies the installation location for the Calendar Server software. The default is /opt/sun/comms/davserver.
DelegatedAdmin_home	Specifies the installation location for the Delegated Administrator software. The default is /opt/sun/comms/da.
GlassFish_home	Specifies the installation location for the Oracle GlassFish Server software. The default is /opt/glassfish3/glassfish.