Duty3G/User Guide/Appendix A — Installing duty3G

From Documentation

This chapter describes how to install duty3G for your environment. duty3G is installed through the COSmanager configuration menu. See Installing COSmanager Applications in the COSmanager User Guide for full details of how to install COSmanager applications.

What you need

• the COSmanager framework installed on the target platform
• a distribution tape containing the duty3G software
• a valid license key
• you must be a COSmanager user with the Manager role

Installing duty3G

1. Load the distribution tape in a drive on the local host or a network drive.
2. From the Product configuration menu, select COSmanager configuration > COSmanager applications.
3. Select Application > Install.
4. Enter the name of the host to which the tape drive is attached. In Install from, enter the no-rewind device name for the tape drive. Press Accept.
5. You will see a list of the applications on the tape. Choose the row titled duty3G version 3.0.
6. Enter the name of the directory where you want duty3G to be installed and press Accept.

COSmanager copies the duty3G files from the tape to the target directory and creates the duty3G audit trail.

Figure 12 — Installation messages

This completes the installation.

Configuring duty3G

duty3G comes with predefined duties for other COSmanager products. The next task is to customize duty3G, by adding new duties to automate other tasks frequently performed at your site. You do this through the duty3G configuration console.

If you are running the GUI version, press Config from the COSmanager button bar. If you are running duty3G from an xterm or character terminal, select Product configuration from the COSmanager main menu.

Figure 13 — duty3G configuration console

The main steps to set up an initial configuration are:

• add new duties

  See To Define a Duty

• assign existing duties to the correct roles

  See Assigning a Duty to a Different Access Role.