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The IBM® Network StationTM is IBM's network computer. It is designed to be easy to install, use, and manage. It operates without any internal disk storage, using supporting software and applications from associated servers. Through network connections, the IBM Network Station can attach to a number of servers, including the IBM AS/400, RISC System/6000 or System/390 servers, and Intel PC servers running SCO UNIX or Windows NT. Ideal for multi-platform computing environments, it allows access to a wide variety of applications running on one server or many servers, to the worldwide resources of the Internet or a private intranet, and to the fast emerging world of JavaTM applets and applications downloaded on demand from Internet or intranet servers.
IBM Network Station Manager has been developed to provide a common support environment for the IBM Network Station across all IBM and Intel PC based server platforms. Versions have been introduced for the IBM AS/400, RISC System/6000 and System/390 servers, and Intel PC servers running SCO UNIX and Windows NT.
This document discusses IBM Network Station Manager 3.0 for SCO UNIX systems. For more information about IBM Network Station Manager on IBM supported platforms, visit the IBM web site at http://www.ibm.com/nc.
The user of the IBM Network Station may access an SCO UNIX server for various reasons:
IBM Network Station Manager
Operating system UnixWare 7 Release 7.0.0 and 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
After NSM is installed,
access the documentation
by starting SCOhelp.
Alternatively,
you can view SCOhelp documentation
by opening a frames-based HTML browser and accessing:
http://server:457
server is the name of the SCO UNIX server on which NSM is installed.
Look for the NSM documentation under the System Management topic.
Also, refer to the Online Help provided by the Network Station Manager program (URL http://ServerName:880/networkstation/admin) for further information.
Alternatively, you can install with pkgadd(1M):
Select the component packages that you wish 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.
NOTE: If you are performing an in-place upgrade of NSM, pkgadd will not install the IBM Network Station Manager package components by default. You must toggle the component installation status from NO to YES with the arrow keys.
Also note that any NSM files that have been manually edited may be overwritten by the upgrade installation. The only files preserved by the in-place upgrade are in /usr/netstation/configs:
To install IBM NSM components after initial installation:
Repeat the procedure for installing the product from the Optional Services CD-ROM. Component packages that were not installed during the initial installation will be listed as Yes to install.
To remove IBM NSM:
Use the Application Installer or pkgrm(1M).
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.
The IBM NSM product includes three scripts, located in the /usr/netstation/bin directory, that help the server administrator perform some of the tasks associated with configuring the Network Station environment. For more information on how to use these scripts and other system administration tools to perform NSM administrative tasks, see the following sections on server administration in the NSM installation topic under SCOhelp.
This release has the following known limitations:
To produce the correct display on the IBM Network Station Navigator browser, simply type Alt-1 (press the One key while holding down the Alt key). This forces the browser to refresh the contents of the frames and display missing information. It may be necessary to type Alt-1 more than once to establish the correct display.
To produce the correct display on the Netscape Navigator 3.04 browser, you need to reduce the number of simultaneous network connections to "1". To do this, load the browser and select from the menu:
Options->Network Preferences->Connections
Change the value in the "Connections" field from 4 to 1.
This problem does not occur with other browsers such as Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.
http://yourserver:880
Note that, on SCO UnixWare 7, the IBM NSM server is running on port 880, not port 80 as on most IBM platforms.
This can be a problem, however, if many DHCP options have been selected and the "DHCP option overload" feature has been enabled. It is recommended, therefore, that the "DHCP option overload" feature remains disabled.
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Document Version: IBM NSM 3.0.6
September 1999