User`s guide

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The SLIC Manager has a graphical user interface (GUI) and a command line
interface (CLI) available for Windows NT systems. UNIX systems will only have
the command line interface available.
The following installation and configuration examples will detail using the GUI
from a Windows NT platform. To review the commands that are available for
UNIX platforms and installation instructions on other operating systems, please
refer to the SLIC Manager Installation and User Guide, 310-605807.
5.3.1 Installing the SLIC Manager software
The SLIC Manager software can run on many operating systems. The following
discussion will describe an installation on a Netfinity 5500 with Windows NT 4.0.
To install the SLIC Manager server software for local access, the Vicom Utilities
CD-ROM is placed in the CD drive. Select Start -> Run and Browse the CD
drive. Go to slicmgr\i386\server\setup.exe and click OK. Follow the
prompts displayed on the window to install the Manager software. This will
install the daemon service also.
For remote or client access the daemon service is not required. To load the
Manager software only, go to slicmgr\i386\client\setup.exe instead.
5.3.2 Communicating to the Router
For the SLIC Manager server software to communicate to the Router, it requires
space on a disk or several disks that are within the SSA loop. This is referred to
as a SLIC Zone. To create space on a disk, a file or partition — depending on the
operating system used — is created for the Manager software to use. To create
this SLIC Zone, a configuration file must be created or edited.