Getting Started

IBM Network Station Manager 3.0.6 for UnixWare 7 systems

About IBM Network Station Manager (NSM)

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.

System Requirements

IBM Network Station Manager

Operating system UnixWare 7 Release 7.0.0 or higher
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 140MB (4500 inodes) in /usr

Installation

Perform the following steps as root:

  1. Download the product tar files from the Download page.
  2. Move the files to a preferred installation directory:

    mv filename*.tar /tmp1

  3. Change to the installation directory:

    cd /tmp1

  4. Using the tar(1) command, extract the package components from each of the downloaded files:

    tar xvf filename.tar

  5. Combine the package components into one file:

    cat ibmnsm1 ibmnsm2 ibmnsm3 ibmnsm4 ibmnsm5 > ibmnsm.pkg

  6. Use pkgadd or the AppInstaller to install the IBM Network Station Manager documentation and software packages.
  • If you are using pkgadd, while in the installation directory used above, enter:

pkgadd -d `pwd`/ibmnsm.pkg

  • If you are using the AppInstaller:
  1. Click on the App_Installer icon in the Admin_Tools window.
  2. In the Install From menu, choose Other.
  3. In the Folder box, type the full pathname of the .pkg file, including the filename (for example,  /tmp1/ibmnsm.pkg).
  4. Press <Enter> or click on the Update View button.
  5. Click on the icon that appears, and then click on the Install button.

Select the component packages that you want to install. The default is that all packages are selected for installation. Press TAB to move the cursor between fields and use the Right/Left arrow keys to select Yes or No. When finished, move the cursor to Apply and press ENTER to continue.

You will be asked to select Automatic or Custom for each of the packages that can prompt the user for configuration information during installation. Use the TAB and Right/Left arrow keys to make your selection. The default is Automatic, which implies that appropriate default values will be set for all configurable parameters.

After Initial Installation

The IBM NSM software installation process runs scripts that perform the following tasks:

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 NSM topic under SCOhelp 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 NSM installation topic under SCOhelp 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.

After NSM is installed, you can view online documentation by opening a frames-based HTML browser and accessing:

http://<ServerName>:457

where server is the name of the SCO UNIX server on which NSM is installed.

Select System Management then IBM Network Station Manger (NSM).

Also, refer to the Online Help provided by the Network Station Manager program (URL http://<ServerName>:880/networkstation/admin) for further information.

Document version 3.0.6b
November 1999
© 1999 The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. All rights reserved.