The IBM® Network StationTM Manager has been developed to provide a common support environment for the IBM Network Station across all IBM and Intel PC based server platforms. The IBM Network Station is an easy-to-use network computer, operating without any internal disk storage. Ideal for multi-platform computing environments, this allows access to a wide variety of applications running on many servers, including Intel PC servers running SCO UNIX.
Operating system SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.5 LAN card Ethernet or Token-Ring Network software TCP/IP and NFS configured and running Web server (NSM configuration server only) Netscape FastTrack 2.01a Web browser (NSM configuration server only) Netscape Communicator 4.0.4 or later Total RAM 32MB (64MB recommended) Disk space 230MB in /usr
NOTE: 80MB of the disk space is freed up again after the installation completes (unless the system is configured as a remote installation server).WARNING: The IBM NSM installation requires the Binary Compatibility Module for SCO OpenServer to be installed; IBM NSM installation will fail if this Compatability Module is not installed. On SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.5, the Binary Compatability Module is part of the default installation. If the Compatability Module package was not installed or was removed, install it from the SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.5 CD-ROM (or download it as described below).
On SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.4, IBM NSM can be installed if the Binary Compatibility Module for SCO OpenServer is installed first; however, Release 5.0.4 is an unsupported operating system environment because IBM NSM has not been tested in this environment and might not function correctly.
The Binary Compatibility Module can be downloaded from:
The IBM NSM package is available from the SCO download page as partial tar files.
- To download these partial tar files:
- Download all of the partial product (*.tar) files from the IBM NSM Download page.
- As root, move the files to a preferred installation directory:
mv *.tar /tmp1- Change to the installation directory:
cd /tmp1- Extract the contents of the tar files. You must run the following command on each of the partial product files:
tar xvf <filename>.tarThe tar extraction should create these files:
ibmnsm1
ibmnsm2
ibmnsm3
ibmnsm4
ibmnsm5- Concatenate the 5 files to produce the installation media image:
cat ibmnsm1 ibmnsm2 ibmnsm3 ibmnsm4 ibmnsm5 > VOL.000.000
Once you have extracted the installation media image from the downloaded tar file(s), install the IBM NSM software and documentation using the SCOadmin Software Manager (custom):
- Double-click on the Software Manager icon in the System Administration window on the Desktop, or enter scoadmin software manager at a root prompt.
- Click on Software, then Install New.
- When prompted for a machine, select the system you will be installing from.
- When prompted for a media device, select Media Images.
- When prompted for the Media Images directory, enter the name of the directory containing the VOL* file (for example, /tmp1).
After Initial Installation
The IBM NSM software installation process runs scripts that perform the following tasks:
- Update NSM configuration files with DNS information derived from /etc/resolv.conf
- Export the /usr/netstation directory via NFS
- Create an instance of the Netscape FastTrack webserver as an NSM configuration server (if FastTrack is installed)
- Start the Network Station Login Daemon
This default configuration is sufficient to support a small number of Network Stations that are configured locally (use the procedure in "Configuring an IBM Network Station to Boot from the NVRAM Setting" in the online documentation to configure the Network Stations locally). Network Station users can now boot their Network Station from the server using the NFS protocol, log in to the server using their UNIX user ID and password, and load applications from the server, including the NC Navigator Browser. Using the browser, users can connect to the Network Station Manager configuration server to tailor their logon environment.
For networks containing a large number of Network Stations, more manageable boot methods can be employed, including BOOTP, DHCP, and TFTP. See "Configuring the Boot Server" in the installation topic in the online documentation for further information.
Product Documentation
In addition to this document, please read the IBM NSM Release Notes available from the SCO IBM NSM download page. This document contains known limitations, default configurations, and details further information on getting started with IBM NSM.© 1999 The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. All rights reserved.After NSM is installed, you can view the online documentation with any browser capable of displaying frames.
If you don't already have a suitable browser, install a free version of Netscape CommunicatorTM from the Optional Services CD (see Release and Installation Notes for SCO Internet products on the CD in /info/nscomm/relnotes/relnotes.htm).
On the NSM server, start the Netscape browser and open:
file:/usr/netstation/doc/index.html
Also, refer to the Online Help provided by NSM (URL http://<ServerName>:880/networkstation/admin) for more information.
Last updated: Dec 99