************************************************************************** (C) COPYRIGHT International Business Machines Corporation 1994, 1999 All Rights Reserved. Licensed Materials - Property of IBM. ************************************************************************** FILE: README FOR MSS V2.1 PTF 3 The IBM Multiprotocol Switched Services Configuration Program V1 R2.1 PTF 3 is a replacement for IBM Multiprotocol Switched Services Configuration Program V1 R2.1. The Nways Multiprotocol Access Services Configuration Program User's Guide is available separately (GC30-3830). Table of Contents: 1. Installation 2. Restrictions 3. Migration 4. Problems fixed in this Configuration Program 1. INSTALLATION Obtaining the Configuration Program Electronically Steps to obtain the Configuration Program electronically: You can obtain the Configuration Program electronically, from http://www.networking.ibm.com/support/code.nsf/8210code Steps to obtain the Configuration Program electronically: 1. From the URL above, select MSS Server Config Tool Version 2.1 PTF3. 2. Select from Files in the Package at the bottom of the screen to download the files. DISKETTE images 1. Format 6 diskettes 2. From Windows or OS/2, download the six self-extracting files in the package to your harddisk. 3. Run the first file and follow the instructions to create the first diskette. 4. Repeat step 3 until you create all the six diskettes from running the downloaded files. 5. Place the first diskette onto the diskette drive 6. Proceed to the steps in Installation from Diskettes. Installation From Diskettes AIX 1. Type dosread -a INSTALL.AIX INSTALL.AIX and press ENTER 2. Change the file permission Type chmod 550 INSTALL.AIX and press ENTER 3. Type INSTALL.AIX press ENTER Follow the prompts that appear on the screen to complete the installation. OS/2 1. Type A:os2inst and press ENTER Follow the prompts that appear on the screen to complete the installation WINDOWS '95 1. From the Start Menu,select Run 2. Type A:\install and press ENTER WINDOWS 1. From the FILE menu, select Run 2. Type A:Install and press ENTER TLV definitions are written to the file cfg.tlv in the configuration program installation directory. Do NOT delete this file if you are re-installing the configuration program. In order to successfully use existing configurations stored in a cdb file that have user defined TLVs configured in an ELAN definition, the cfg.tlv file containing these TLV definitions is required. If you are installing the configuration program in a new directory, copy the cfg.tlv file to the new directory before starting the configuration program. To verify that no TLV information is missing, review entries on the TLV Definitions page for each ELAN. OS/2 Warp Version 4 is not supported. 2. RESTRICTIONS This section discusses some KEY considerations that users must be aware of: Windows environment: If TCP/IP is not installed and RUNNING before using the "Send Single" and/or "Send Multiple" functions the Configuration Program will hang. OS/2 environment: A selection of 65535 colors when using OS/2 WARP will prevent the program bitmap from being displayed. ELS (Event Logging System) data: The Configuration Program does not support ELS configurations. Thus, if you want to configure ELS you must use the command line interface on the server. If ELS configurations are included in a configuration file that you retrieve from a server, the ELS configurations will be saved and restored to the server when you send the configuration back to the server. Any changes to the ELS configurations made on the server after retrieving the configuration and before sending it back will be lost. COMMAND LINE If you are using the command line interface to configure your box, you cannot use a '*' in the command. 3. MIGRATION SUPPORT FOR DOWNLEVEL CONFIGURATION FILES To use configuration files created by earlier versions of the configuration program, you MUST migrate to the new release format. If the only copy of the configuration is either in the MSS or in binary format, you must use the version of the configuration program that created the configuration to create the configuration database file and then use the configuration program to migrate that database file. Creating Configuration Database File To create the configuration database file: 1. Start the previous version of the configuration program. 2. Select READ CONFIGURATION to read the existing configuration into the configuration program. Another way to load an existing configuration into the program is to select COMMUNICATION, SINGLE, and then RETRIEVE from the Configuration menu. 3. Select SAVE CONFIGURATION from the File menu. 4. Save the configuration into a file with file extension .CDB. Converting a Configuration Database File Configurations in a configuration database may be migrated to the new release format by: 1. Starting the current version of the configuration program. 2. Selecting OPEN CONFIGURATION from the File menu. Select the old configuration from within the .cdb file you created in "Creating Configuration Database File." The configuration program will then ask if you wish to convert the configuration to the new format. 3. Selecting SAVE CONFIGURATION AS to save the configuration to a new file with a new name. Using the "Save configuration as" function allows you to keep the existing configuration file for future use. NHRP auto-configure After migration of the configuration database file to to MSS V1R2.1 is completed, if no NHRP functions were previously configured, NHRP at the box level will be defaulted to 'enabled'. As a result of this, each ATM interface will have a corresponding NHRP interface associated with it. 4. APARS (Problems) fixed in this Configuration Programs IR39318 - Config Tool changes LES/BUS from ATM 0 to ATM 1 upon reading IR39388 - Remore LESs lost upon reading IR39774 - Config Tool should limit LEC ATM Address Selector. NA05020 - ARP Server is not required when running CIP over VPI/VCI.