README FILE 5/30/97 OnLive! Technologies Community Server Talker Package 1.01 Copyright (c) OnLive! Technologies, 1997, All Rights Reserved. This README file provides the following information: - An overview of the OnLive! Community Server Talker Package, - Community Server Talker Package Installation Instructions - Known Issues and Workarounds Please read all of these instructions before proceeding. ++++Overview++++ The OnLive! Community Server Talker Package you have just obtained contains everything necessaray to create a multi-user, voice-enabled Internet community using a SPARC-based Sun Solaris system. You will be able to use your own Web site to host large group discussions where participants use their own voices. Users will be able to access this portion of your Web site by using the OnLive! Talker client. The OnLive! Talker client is not included here, but is available for download from the OnLive! Web site at http://www.onlive.com There are a number of other resources available to you at this OnLive! Web site. These include: **Site Developer Zone (http://www.onlive.com/cgi-bin/developer/register.cgi)** Get information on upcoming programs, participate in weekly on-line conferences with colleagues and OnLive! staff members, and join our mailing list to discuss creative, technical and social issues related to developing OnLive! sites. **OnLive! Directory of Talker Sites (http://www.onlive.com/solutions/refdir/talksites.html)** Check out our roster of OnLive! reference sites to get ideas for building your own sites, and to experience the power of communicating with others using your own voice -- not text -- over the Internet. **Sales Resources.** For more information on the server software, pricing, or custom space development, email OnLive! Sales at sales@onlive.com or call 1-888-8ONLIVE(1-888-866-5483) Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm Pacific Time. ++++Beginning The Server Software Installation ++++ The files that are needed in order to install and configure the OnLive! Solaris Community Server Talker 1.01 package are listed below. Please ensure that you have downloaded all prior to the installation. tlksosrv.txt this readme file tlksodoc_tar.Z a compressed tar archive containing all of the needed documentation to install and configure the OnLive! Community Server Talker Package, in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. sosrv101_tar.Z a compressed tar archive containing all of the server software and administration tools. 1) Install the documentation package (tlksodoc_tar.Z - instructions below) 2) Print and read the Quickstart Checklist. 3) Begin the software installation by decompressing and unarchiving sosrv101_tar.Z in the directory you wish to install the software: $ zcat sosrv101_tar.Z |tar -xvf - The OnLive! Community Server software and administration tools consist of the following files: ./server/s26onliv - an example startup script file to load the OnLive! server at server reboot (needs to be renamed to S26onlive.server to execute) ./server/onlive - an example script to load and unload the OnLive! Community Server software, without rebooting your server ./server/etamsrv - the Access Server ./server/etgdecon - the Guide Console ./server/etnssrv - the Name Server ./server/etopcon - the Operator's Console ./server/olspace - a utility to configure the list of valid spaces that the OnLive! Community Server supports, or hosts ./server/ollicens - the OnLive! Server licensing program ./server/cgi-bin - subdirectory containing the Web Page Operator console tools ./server/cgi-bin/etgdecon - Guide Console application ./server/cgi-bin/etopcon - Operator Console application ./server/cgi-bin/olcon - Browse Console main script ./server/cgi-bin/olcon.htm - Browse Console main web page ./server/cgi-bin/olcondis - used by olcon for display purposes ./server/cgi-bin/olconx - helper script ./server/cgi-bin/olguide - Guide Console web script ./server/cgi-bin/olguide.htm - Guide Console web page ./server/cgi-bin/ollogo.gif - OnLive! Technologies' logo ./server/cgi-bin/oloparg - helper application ./server/cgi-bin/olopauth - helper script that authenticates users ./server/cgi-bin/oloper - Operator Console web script ./server/cgi-bin/oloper.htm - Operator Console web page ./server/cgi-bin/olpsrv - helper script ./server/cgi-bin/setupcon - script to install and setup the OnLive! Web interfaces ./server/cgi-bin/setupcon.txt - brief description of the setupcon procedure ./server/etelfcon.exe - the Event Logging Facility (ELF) Console application ./server/etelfcon.hlp - the ELF Console help file ./server/nslookup.exe - an ELF Console related executable ./server/nslookup.hel - an ELF Console related executable The last 4 files listed are the Event Logging Facility (ELF) Console files. These files must be transferred to a Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51 client. The nslookup.exe program must be placed in your Windows directory or in a directory specified by your PATH variable. Detailed configuration instructions for the server software and server administration tools are included in the OnLive! Community Server Administration Guide. 4) Follow the Checklist instructions to complete your installation. ++++Reading the OnLive! Community Server Talker Package Documentation++++ To read the documentation, you will need to install it first by extracting the files from the tar archive: $ zcat tlksodoc_tar.Z |tar -xvf - The following items will then be installed on your system: tlksochk.pdf The Quickstart Checklist, in Adobe's PDF format. soladmin.pdf the OnLive! Community Server Administration Guide, in Adobe's PDF format tlkadmin.pdf The OnLive! Talker Site Administration Guide, in Adobe's PDF format. tlkintra.pdf Technical Note for setting up the Talker client in an Intranet, in PDF format. tlkns40.pdf Technical Note for using Talker with Netscape 4.0, in PDF format. Make sure you have Adobe's Acrobat Reader 3.0 installed; if not, please obtain it from Adobe's Web site at: http://www.adobe.com. Once Acrobat Reader is installed on your machine, you can double-click any of the PDF files. This will launch Acrobat Reader and enable you to view and/or print the documentation. ++++Licensing Information++++ Please review the OnLive! Community Server Administration Guide for details on how to install your OnLive! license. Without a license, the OnLive! Community Server will only support 1 user. For more license information contact our our Sales Group at 1-888-8ONLIVE (1-888-866-5483) or email sales@onlive.com. ++++UPDATE RELEASE NOTES++++ On average, we have learned that it takes approximately 3 hours to install and configure the OnLive! Community Server. The following features are not yet supported in the OnLive! Community Server software: - multi-processor systems - proxy serving There is a known issue, where the IP address is displayed in reverse octet order by the OnLive! Name Server. We recommend that you do not use Real Audio, Java, or another website audio or video offering on the exact same web page as OnLive! functionality is offered. These applications access the client system's single sound card in the same manner as do the OnLive! Talker application. A PC will not allow more than one of these applications to access the sound card simultaneously. If you do decide to use one of these audio or video applications on the same page as an OnLive! application, please be sure to inform users that they must completely close the OnLive! application (including any components that may be opened in the Windows 95 taskbar). There is a known memory allocation problem in the OnLive! server software. This memory allocation problem can vary based on server load and length of time the server has been running. To work-around this problem, you can periodically restart your server to clear the memory. The administrator's tool ETOpcon can hang when using commands for one server (e.g. the Name Server) followed by commands for another server(e.g. the Access Server). To work-around this problem, avoid combining commands for different servers. If you experience the hang problem, stop ETOpcon (by using ctrl C) and restart it. This problem will be addressed in a future release. When using ETOpcon to shutdown a space, you may receive the error "Operation failed - NamSrv: invalid object type (1038)." This error will occur if the syntax when shutting down the space is not correct. For example, the correct syntax is as follows: shutspace 'Trav1.http://onlive.enterprise.com/sports.sds..a93a1991^Sports Bar' hard Please see the OnLive! Community Server Administration Guide for further information. If you have any problems during installation or feedback you would like to pass on, you may send email to support@onlive.com, with the subject header of "Server".