Installation Manual

nanoBTS Installation Manual

Getting Started with BTS Installer

and return the replies. In such configurations BTS Installer communicates with the

nanoBTSs in proxy mode.

There are two different types of proxy that might be present on a BSC: a Primary OML

Proxy and a Secondary OML Proxy. Which can be used depends on the network

configuration.

Direct connection or proxy mode is indicated to the user in the status bar at the bottom of

the user interface. A later section explains how to start BTS Installer in proxy mode, and

lists the limitations of BTS Installer whilst in proxy mode.

3.3 The Configuration File

BTS Installer can be given the information it needs in the following ways:

• in a configuration file

• via the graphical user interface

• via some combination of a configuration file and the graphical user interface

The configuration file is a text file which can be created with any text editor and which

contains definitions for:

• default values for BTS attributes

• the nanoBTSs to be operated on

• attributes to be set for the BTSs

• the DHCP server’s IP address pool

It is not necessary to create a configuration file for most uses of BTS Installer, as almost all

necessary information can be entered via the graphical user interface. The only exception

is that a BTS Database entry for the “Unknown BTS” cannot be entered via the GUI and

can only be entered via the configuration file.

At any point it is possible to save the current state of the BTS Database and IP address

pool to a configuration file; this can be done even if no configuration file has been loaded

and all data has been entered via the GUI. This allows you to do the following:

• entering configuration information via the GUI

• saving the configuration information to a new configuration file

• loading the configuration file in a later run of BTS Installer

In other words, you can use BTS Installer itself to create a configuration file for later use,

instead of using a text editor.

See 'Configuration File Reference' in [OPM_300] for details of the syntax of the

configuration file.

3.4 Installing BTS Installer

This section contains information about installing BTS Installer, preparing it for use, and

performing an operation on a nanoBTS.

BTS Installer is a Java application. It requires that the Sun J2SE Java Runtime

Environment be installed: version 1.5 is required (there is no particular requirement as to