OSI/MHS Orientation Guide

Building Your Message Handling System
OSI/MHS Orientation Guide—424829-001
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Where to Look
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Install any related software on other systems and devices in the network: for
instance, LAN servers, X.400 gateways, and RUAs.
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Install and start messaging applications and gateways, such as access units and EDI
software.
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Install and configure the X.500 directory service (if one is used). Steps to integrate
a directory service are described in more detail in a following subsection,
“Integrating a Directory Service With OSI/MHS.”
Because the configuration of a network can be complex, and because network
characteristics, such as traffic patterns, change over time, you will also need to know
how to troubleshoot and tune the messaging network, using various system
management, performance, and diagnostic tools that Compaq provides.
Where to Look
Compaq provides a considerable body of literature and videotape to help you learn about
Compaq products and their configuration requirements, in addition to learning how to
use Compaq management tools. Your Compaq representative has access to additional
information, as indicated in Table 1-1, to help you get started and to solve special
problems. In addition to all those materials, you are likely to need information of the
following types:
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Policy statements from your own company, from networking service providers with
whose networks yours must communicate, and from government or international
organizations whose rules you must follow
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Manuals and conformance statements (PICS) from other vendors whose X.400
products will communicate with OSI/MHS, and manuals describing applications
you will use with OSI/MHS—for instance, third-party EDI applications and
gateways that use the Gateway Programmatic Interface (GPI)
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Copies of the CCITT X.400 series of Recommendations
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X.400 names and addresses (O/R names) of members of your user community
The “About This Manual” section of this manual lists and describes the X.400
Recommendations and related documents you might need to comply with specific
national or international regulations and agreements.
Manuals and Media Guide
Table 1-1 includes Compaq manuals and educational media that help you set up a
messaging network. Items are listed in one possible reading order, but you will certainly
find yourself moving back and forth among the manuals as you work.
If you will not be using the Transfer gateway to give users of Transfer access to the
X.400 network, you do not need the manuals for Transfer or the NonStop Transaction
Services/MP.
If you wish to automate some of the installation functions, you also need the list of
manuals in Table 1-14, later in this section, and possibly other management
programming manuals: for example, to automate the installation of NonStop