Compaq Software Product Description __________________________________________________________________________ PRODUCT: Compaq TeMIP SystemMate V1.0 for DIGITAL UNIX[R] SPD 70.71.00 DESCRIPTION TeMIP for DIGITAL UNIX[R] is a family of software products for the management of telecommunications and corporate networks, including fixed wire and mobile/cellular voice and data multi-vendor, multi-technology networks. TeMIP V3.2 provides comprehensive off-the-shelf fault and trouble management functions such as Alarm Handling and Event Logging for telecommunications network management. TeMIP supports the International Standards Organization (ISO) management standards ISO 10164-x and 10165-x. TeMIP and its features are applicable in the context of the International Telephone Union-Telecommunication Standards (ITU-T) X.73x and Telecommunication Management Network (TMN) M.3010, M3100 Recommendations. It gives network operators a global view of their networks, and enables them to activate management functions and operations from single or multiple workstations. TeMIP is built on top of the TeMIP Framework, and fully benefits from the object oriented and truly distributed software architecture. TeMIP SystemMate Features TeMIP SystemMate is an integrated graphical user interface (GUI) providing a range of system administration capabiliites. The purpose of TeMIP SystemMate is to: o Facilitate the installation and configuration of TeMIP and associated products, substantially reducing the time needed to deploy TeMIP solutions. o Allow the preparation of software configurations that automate installation and configuration operations, using insertion, modification, importing, and exporting functions, with the possible inclusion of built-in configuration entities, for example, TeMIP Full Server, Oracle server. o Provide TeMIP system administration functions with graphical displays. o Provide DIGITAL UNIX system administration functions with graphical displays. o Provide an open architecture into which other tools and GUIs can be integrated. TeMIP SystemMate is the nerve center for the administration of the TeMIP Solution Set for Service Assurance. It makes easier the transitions between the major stages in the life cycle of the TeMIP product, and provides a fully integrated, user-friendly environment for system administration. Using TeMIP SystemMate, system administrators can: o Access a set of built-in configuration entities with associated automated operations o Combine built-in configuration entities to build complete configurations o Export configuration entities to target systems and import configuration entities built on other systems o Deploy predefined configurations and user-defined configurations o Administer and monitor TeMIP o Administer and monitor DIGITAL UNIX o Monitor TeMIP applications - specifically the details of distribution, domain hierarchies, access control, and process execution TeMIP SystemMate V1.0 supports product installation, configuration, and related operations that offer a shell interface (not a graphical interface). It does not address installation or configuration on operating systems other than DIGITAL UNIX V4.0D. The following software will be packaged with TeMIP SystemMate. The system audit tools contained in subset OSFSYSCHECK107 Syscheck utility see ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/IAS/sys_check/ For SystemMate Client: Java[TM] Development Kit Version 1.1.6 (JDK[tm] 1.1.6 ) OSFJAVA425 Java 1.1.6-2 Environment (General Applications) OSFJAVADEV425 Java 1.1.6-2 Development Environment (Software Development) OSFJAVADOC425 Java 1.1.6-2 Online Documentation (Documentation Kit) see http://www.digital.com/java/download/jdk_du/1.1.6/jdk116_form.html For SystemMate Server: Java[tm] Development Kit Version 1.1.6 (JDK(tm) 1.1.6) OSFJAVA425 Java 1.1.6-2 Environment (General Applications) OSFJAVADEV425 Java 1.1.6-2 Development Environment (Software Development) OSFJAVADOC425 Java 1.1.6-2 Online Documentation (Documentation Kit) see http://www.digital.com/java/download/jdk_du/1.1.6/jdk116_form.html TeMIP SystemMate Architecture TeMIP SystemMate is based on a client-server model. It consists of a daemon server (known as the SystemMate server) which receives requests from clients (SystemMate clients). The SystemMate server can run standalone applications (shell scripts and executables). The communication protocol used between the client and the server is supplied with Java[tm]; its name is JRMI (Java Remote Method Invocation). The SystemMate server makes use of JVM (Java Virtual Machine) on DIGITAL UNIX. It runs the requested standalone applications locally, on the server system. The simplest way to connect to a SystemMate server is to start a SystemMate client specifying the required server host name. According to your selections, the SystemMate client requests standalone applications and waits for the results. All data processing such as parsing and graphical display is handled by the client to minimize the server's load and to exploit the processing power of client workstations. You can modify the target server dynamically during a client session. The Session menu provides a Session parameters menu item, which allows you to enter a host name or IP address. SystemMate validates the specified host name or IP address to ensure that it really exists and is reachable. SystemMate security The SystemMate server offers the following security features: o User authentication by means of login names with associated passwords, ensuring correct identification of the person at the client end of the connection. o Access control, ensuring that authenticated users have access only to the information and operations they are authorized to use. o Password encryption using the UNIX password algorithm, to protect data in transit from eavesdroppers. o End-to-end data integrity checks, to ensure that information in transit has not been forged by a third party or corrupted by failures. This mechanism does not rely on the network services. Customized SystemMate interface Depending on the user's login name, the menus sent by the server to the client are different, so that user access to administration tasks is customized. One of the SystemMate client's first requests to the SystemMate server during the connection phase is to retrieve the GUI menus. Each user login name has a token that defines the access level authorized. The SystemMate server thus sends the SystemMate client menus that contain only the menu items for which the user is authorized. Installation functions The Installation menu offers menu items related to the installation phase of system administration activity. o The Install Wizard menu item can carry out all the steps necessary to deploy a software configuration. o The Build Config menu item provides the means to prepare user-defined software configurations (see below), and to export and import them. o The Subsets, Inventory menu item lists the subsets installed. (The default filter is for TeMIP Framework, but you can specify any kit filter.) o The Extraordinary patches, Inventory menu item lists the TeMIP patches installed. Configurations, configuration entities, and directives A software configuration is built by defining configuration entities and associated directives at various levels. From the top down the entities are: o Configuration: The complete software configuration. o Site: An operational center composed of one or more Systems. o System: A logical system comprising one or more physical machines, on which one or more ComponentPackages will be installed. o ComponentPackage: A combination of Components configured to provide a specific Network Management service or group of services (for example, TeMIP Fault Management, TeMIP Expert). o Component: A single piece of software, usually in the form of a software kit, which is separately installable and configurable (for example, Network Time Protocol, TeMIP). The directives associated with configuration entities divide the deployment of the software configuration into elementary tasks at each level. There is a very close relationship between the object model (configuration entities) and the directives: each object must have its own list of directives. When you define a directive, you can specify parameters governing the execution of the application or script that it calls, and arguments to be passed to the application or script. Argument values can be specified at definition time or deployment time The Install Wizard The Install Wizard menu item allows you to deploy predefined software configurations or user-defined software configurations, after defining any missing host names and argument values. An execution tree shows how deployment is progressing. You can control deployment by suspending at any point and resuming when you are ready. If an error is encountered, deployment stops and you are offered the following choices: o View the error log o Retry the directive (after having solved the problem) o Ignore the error and continue deployment o Stop deployment You can also choose to abandon deployment at any point by requesting a stop at the end of the current directive. Administration functions The Administration menu offers functions related to the post-installation phase of system administration activity. For TeMIP administration, Start, Stop, Show, and Security functions are available. The Security function item calls the TeMIP Access Control GUI. For TeMIP Name Service (TNS) administration, the Show function, and Server and Client Start and Stop functions are available. For DIGITAL UNIX administration, the following DIGITAL UNIX functions are available: o Account management o Advanced File System (AdvFs) management o Host management o Kernel Tuner, to manage the attributes of the loadable kernel subsystem o Logical Storage Manager (LSM) o Process Tuner, to display the list of processes running, find a process, change process priority, or send a signal to a process o System Information, to display the following status information: operating system and version, amount of RAM, number of CPUs, CPU activity, free memory, swap space, file system utilization, disk and tape device names o Shutdown manager, to perform Halt, Reboot, Single-User mode shutdown, or Message-Only shutdown Monitoring functions The Monitoring submenus offer functions that display information on the UNIX system and various TeMIP objects, namely directors, domains, entities, the dictionary, TNS, and management modules. For the UNIX system, the information available is: o Audit/Reporting statistics on memory, File Systems, and Network activity, obtained using the sys_check command For Directors, the information available is: o Registered directors (showing the TeMIP directors involved in a distributed configuration) o Inter-director connectivity (showing a matrix of connections between all possible pairs of directors) o Managing Directors (showing lists of the global classes and instances managed by each director, or for a single Global class, the instances managed by each director.) o Applications and processes (showing status information) o TeMIP director attributes for the remote server director o TeMIP environment variables set in the file /var/mcc/config/.temip_config on the remote server o Event pool analysis (with statistics on all Getevent threads) Domains For Domains, the information available is: o The domain hierarchy in a block diagram or tree format. Entities For Entities, the information available is: o Access control analysis by entity class (showing a list of the allowed and not allowed verbs controlling user access) o Find an entity name starting from a nickname o Full entity information (showing the management module that handles requests for the specified entity class, and the domains the instance is a member of) o Navigation by entity full name (showing entities that refer to one another, for example, Circuits) Dictionary o TeMIP Dictionary Browser (launched application) TNS o TNS browser (launched application) o TNS monitoring (showing the directories, processes, semaphores, shared memory, and Clerk and Server attributes) Management Modules o Display the module information (classes managed, entities.) Access to external applications The SystemMate Applications menu is initially configured to give access to the TeMIP graphical user interfaces. You can customize this menu to give access to other applications, including your private applications, using the following two functions: o Add application o Remove application Help system SystemMate offers a complete Help system for all menus and menu items, displayed in HTML format in a Web browser. Error handling All error messages are displayed in the SystemMate main window. DOCUMENTATION There is an introductory chapter in the TeMIP Solution Set for Service Assurance documentation, and a document containing typical procedures for integrating products: SystemMate documentation: Chapter on SystemMate in the TeMIP Solution Set for Service Assurance - Getting Started, AA-RG2VA-TE TeMIP SystemMate - Guide to Integrating Products HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS Alpha Enterprise System Class: AlphaServer 8200, 8400 Compaq AlphaServer GS60, GS140 Alpha Departmental System Class: AlphaServer 2000, 2100, 4000, 4100 AlphaStation 600 Alpha Workgroup System Class: DIGITAL Personal Workstation au series DIGITAL Ultimate Workstation 533au2 AlphaServer 800, 1000A, 1200 Available Server Environment (ASE) only: The failover systems must be preconfigured as one of the following: TruCluster Available Server see http://www.unix.digital.com/cluster/availsrv.htm TruCluster Production Server see http://www.unix.digital.com/cluster/prodserv.htm TruCluster Memory Channel see http://www.digital.com/info/hpc/software/chan.html Disk Space Requirements: Disk space required for installation of all components (STMBASE, STMCLIENT, and STMSERVER): 31 Mbytes Disk space required for use (permanent): 31 Mbytes These figures refer to the disk space required on the system disk. The sizes are approximate; actual sizes may vary depending on the user's system environment, configuration, and software options. Memory Requirements: The minimum memory requirement is 30 Mbytes for the SystemMate Client and 40 Mbytes for the SystemMate Server. Note that if more memory is made available for use with the TeMIP SystemMate software, performance will be improved. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS DIGITAL UNIX Operating System V4.0D GROWTH CONSIDERATIONS The minimum hardware/software requirements for any future version of this product may be different from the requirements for the current version. YEAR 2000 READY This product is Year 2000 Ready. "Year 2000 Ready" products are defined by Compaq as products capable of accurately processing, providing, and/or receiving date data from, into and between the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries, and the years 1999 and 2000, including leap year calculations, when used in accordance with the associated Compaq product documentation and provided that all hardware, firmware and software used in combination with such Compaq products properly exchange accurate date data with the Compaq products. For additional information visit Compaq's DIGITAL Products Year 2000 Ready web site located at http://ww1.digital.com/year2000/warranty.asp. To ensure that this product is Year 2000 Ready, code assessment and system tests to verify the transition between December 31st 1999 and January 1st 2000 were utilized. To ensure that this product interoperates properly with other hardware and software, the system tests involving third-party product ILOG Rules and Compaq's TeMIP V3.2 are applicable, as these products were verified as being Year 2000 Ready. DISTRIBUTION MEDIA This product is distributed with the media for TeMIP Solution Set for Service Assurance. Software Media and Documentation: QA-69HAA-H8 Software Documentation only: QA-69HAA-GZ ORDERING INFORMATION TeMIP SystemMate traditional license: Software License: QL-69NA9-AA Software Product Services: QT-69N**-** SOFTWARE LICENSING This software is furnished under the licensing provisions of Compaq Computer Corporation's Standard Terms and Conditions. Only one TeMIP SystemMate license is needed for all TeMIP directors in a TeMIP installation. For more information about the COMPAQ licensing terms and policies, contact your local COMPAQ office. DIGITAL UNIX LICENSE MANAGEMENT There are no license key requirements for this product. Usage is trust-based on purchase of a Software License and adherance to the associated Standard Terms and Conditions. SOFTWARE PRODUCT SERVICES A variety of service options are available from COMPAQ. For more information on these services or other available Network Management Services, contact your local COMPAQ office. SOFTWARE WARRANTY This software is provided by COMPAQ with a 90 day conformance warranty in accordance with the COMPAQ warranty terms and applicable to the license purchase. The above information is valid at time of release. Please contact your local COMPAQ office for the most up-to-date information. [R] UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Ltd. [TM] Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. in the United States and other countries. [TM] The Compaq Logo, DEC, AlphaStation, AlphaServer, DIGITAL and TeMIP are trademarks of Compaq Computer Corporation and its affiliated companies. (c)1999 Compaq Computer Corporation. All Rights Reserved. January 1999 AE-RGKZA-TE