Installing and Administering OSI Transport Services

84 Chapter 3

Gathering Conﬁguration Information

A Map to the Data Gathering Process

Before starting your data gathering, see chapter 3, “Planning Your

Network.”

Once your network is planned:

• Make copies of the Remote System Worksheet, one for your local node

and others to distribute to the other nodes on the network.

• Make copies of your completed local node Remote System Worksheet

to distribute to each of the other nodes you will communicate with.

This allows the other network administrators to conﬁgure your new

node on their systems.

• Distribute the Remote System Worksheets and a copy of your Remote

System Worksheet to those other network nodes. If one person

administers all the nodes, you must still have one worksheet ﬁlled out

for each node.

• Fill out the parts of your Local Parameter Worksheet that you can

while waiting for the information from the other nodes. Fill in the

remainder of the information you need on your Local Parameter

Worksheets from information you gather from the remote nodes.

• Collect all the worksheets into a packet. This packet will contain all

the information you need to conﬁgure your new node. You should also

save this packet for reference when modifying any of your network

parameters.

Once you have all this information gathered, you are ready to conﬁgure

your network. Chapter 5, “Conﬁguring and Verifying HP OTS/9000”

contains instructions for conﬁguration and veriﬁcation. If you have not

yet installed OTS, see chapter 2, “Installing HP OTS/9000” for

installation instructions before starting your conﬁguration.

About Worksheets

There are two worksheets for you to use:

• Remote System Worksheet. This worksheet is designed to help you

gather network information both for your node and other nodes on

the network with which you wish to communicate. Since the remote