Before You Install Software
This chapter presents requirements that you must check and tasks that you must perform before installing any Steel-Belted Radius Carrier software. This chapter and its topics apply to all SBR Carrier servers, both stand-alone servers and SBR Carrier node hosts in a Session State Register cluster, and to servers in a cluster that do not run SBR Carrier software themselves — management and data node hosts.
These topics are in the chapter:
- Reviewing the Release Notes
- Determining the Server's Centralized Configuration Management Role
- Selecting an Appropriate Server
- Meeting System Requirements
- Verifying Root Access
- Verifying Network Requirements
- Creating Required Users and Groups
- Creating Share Directories
- Setting Up External Database Connectivity (Optional)
- Setting Up RSA Authorization Client (Optional)
- Obtaining License Keys
- Creating a Copy of Existing SBR Server Release Files for Migration
- Installing Signalware and SS7 Interfaces (Optional)