CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Preface

  1      Introduction To POLYCENTER Account Manager

  1.1     POLYCENTER Account Manager - Overview

  1.2     POLYCENTER Account Manager - Basic Structure

  1.3     VMS License Management Facility (LMF)

  2      Preparing to Install POLY AM

  2.1     Check the Contents of Your Kit

  2.2     On-Line Release Notes

  2.3     Required Operating System Components

  2.4     Prerequisite Hardware

  2.5     Prerequisite and Optional Software
    2.5.1      Common Subscriber Profile Database Optional Software
      2.5.1.1      Common Subscriber Profile Based on DNS
      2.5.1.2      Common Subscriber Profile based on Rdb

  2.6     VAXcluster Considerations
    2.6.1      Homogeneous Cluster
    2.6.2      Heterogeneous Cluster

  2.7     Installation Procedure Requirements
    2.7.1      Privileges and Disk Space
    2.7.2      System Parameters
      2.7.2.1      Checking System Parameter Values
      2.7.2.2      Calculating the Values for GBLPAGES and GBLSECTIONS
      2.7.2.3      Changing System Parameter Values with AUTOGEN
    2.7.3      Process Account Quotas
    2.7.4      VMSINSTAL Requirements
    2.7.5      Backing Up Your System Disk
    2.7.6      POLY AM Requirements
      2.7.6.1      DECnet TASK Object
      2.7.6.2      PRAMSERVER Account
      2.7.6.3      Rights Identifiers

  3      Installing POLY AM

  3.1     The Installation Procedure

  3.2     Re-Installations

  3.3     Error Recovery

  4      After Installing POLY AM

  4.1     Editing the System Files
    4.1.1      Startup Files
    4.1.2      System Logicals
      4.1.2.1      POLY AM Logicals

  4.2     Meeting the Security Conditions

  4.3     Starting Up POLY AM

  4.4     Initializing the License Counts Within POLY AM

  4.5     Configuring POLY AM for Your Network Topology

  4.6     Setting up POLY AM Administrator Accounts

  4.7     Considering the Backup Procedures

  4.8     Running the Installation Verification Procedure Separately

  4.9     DNS Prerequisites
    4.9.1      POLY AM DNS X500 Root Directory
    4.9.2      POLY AM DNS NODE Root Directory

  4.10    ALL-IN-1 MAIL Agent Requirements

  4.11    ALL-IN-1 IOS Agent Requirements

  5      Managing POLY AM

  5.1     Starting Up and Closing Down POLY AM

  5.2     Configuration Management of POLY AM
    5.2.1      Profile Applications
    5.2.2      Profile Nodes
    5.2.3      Profile Node and Application Sets
    5.2.4      Profile Countries
    5.2.5      Profile Languages
    5.2.6      Profile Subscriber Classes

  5.3     Setting up Administrator Accounts
    5.3.1      VMS Privileges
    5.3.2      Proxy Access
    5.3.3      Account Quotas
    5.3.4      Administrator "Saved Settings"

  5.4     Controlling Access to the DNS Namespace

  5.5     Common Subscriber Profile

  5.6     Monitoring the Transaction Log
    5.6.1      Turning on the POLY AM Transaction Logger
    5.6.2      Reporting on the Transaction Log
    5.6.3      Purging the Transaction Log Files

  5.7     Backing up the POLY AM Data Files

  5.8     Adding New POLY AM License Tokens

  5.9     Determining and Reporting Problems

  6      Managing the Common Subscriber Profile

  6.1     Use of the /REPAIR Qualifier to Correct a Common Subscriber Profile Entry
    6.1.1      CREATE /REPAIR
    6.1.2      DELETE /REPAIR
    6.1.3      Updating the Common Profile only
    6.1.4      Back-population of the Common Subscriber Profile Database

  6.2     Backup

  7      POLY AM Security

  7.1     Data Encoding

  7.2     POLY AM Domains

  7.3     Authentication

  7.4     PRAMSERVER Account

  7.5     DECnet Task Object

  7.6     System Manager Privileges

  7.7     Administrator Privileges

  7.8     Proxy Access

  8      Installation Verification and Configuration Checking

  8.1     Installation Verification Procedures
    8.1.1      Verifying the Director Software Installation
    8.1.2      Verifying Agent Software Installation

  8.2     Configuration Verification Procedure

  9      Troubleshooting

  9.1     Introduction

  9.2     The Various POLY AM Components

  9.3     First Steps

  9.4     Checking the Director Environment

  9.5     Checking the Agent Environment

  A   Sample Installation

  B   Files and Logical Names Installed on Your System

  B.1     File Names

  B.2     Logical Names

  C   Examples of Command Files for Back-populating the Common Subscriber Profile

  C.1     PRAM_CREATE_SUB_PROFILE_LOOP.COM

  C.2     PRAM_CREATE_SUB_PROFILE.COM

  C.3     Using Command Files to Repair The Common Subscriber Profile

  C.4     PRAM_CREATE_REPAIR_VMS_LOOP.COM

  C.5     PRAM_CREATE_REPAIR_VMS.COM

  FIGURES

  1-1        The EMA model adopted by POLYCENTER Account Manager

  TABLES

  2-1        Required Operating System Components

  2-2        Prerequisite Software

  2-3        Disk Space Requirements

  2-4        Minimum Required System Parameter Values

  2-5        Process Account Quotas for the Installing Account

  5-1        Minimum Account Quotas for using POLY AM

  8-1        Installation Verification Procedures

  8-2        Configuration Verification Procedures