Preparing for Installation

Table 1-1: **Installation Planning**
Component	IP Address or Host Name where Installed	Installation Directory	Other
UCP Data Store (Oracle-based)	____.____.____.____		Username/password
ActiveWeb	____.____.____.____	(/opt/active)	Broker Name (Broker #1)
CiscoSecure ACS¹	____.____.____.____	(/opt/acs)
Translation Server	____.____.____.____	(/opt/ucp)
Accounting Parser	____.____.____.____
GRS²	____.____.____.____
Netsys	____.____.____.____
Netflow Parser	____.____.____.____
DS³ Adapter	____.____.____.____
SMS⁴ Adapter	____.____.____.____
Mother Cache	____.____.____.____	(/opt/ucp)
Local Cache	____.____.____.____	(/opt/ucp)
PGS⁵	____.____.____.____	(/opt/ucp)
DHCP⁶	____.____.____.____	(/opt/ucp)
DNS⁷	____.____.____.____	(/opt/ucp)

¹ACS = Access Control Server.
²GRS= Global Roaming Server.
³DS = Data Store.
⁴SMS = Subscriber Management System.
⁵PGS = Protocol Gateway Service.
⁶DHCP = Dynamic Host Control Protocol.
⁷DNS = Domain Name System.

General Software Requirements

This section describes general software requirements for the UCP software.

Solaris platform software requirements are described in the "Software Requirements for a Sun Solaris Installation" section.

Software requirements for the Windows NT platform are described in the "Software Requirements for Windows NT" section.

Domain Name System

Your installation must use the DNS service provided with UCP. The ActiveWeb component of the UCP must perform host name resolution from a DNS server.

In addition to the software required for the Solaris and Windows NT components, your installation must be running Oracle version 7.3.2. Ideally, your SMS should use one of the following databases supported by ActiveWeb:

Oracle version 7.3.2
Informix version 7.1 or higher
Sybase version 10 or higher

Note Only Oracle 7.3.2 is verified for use with SMS.

If your SMS uses another database, you must develop specialized code to update the UCP database with information from your SMS. For information about developing such code, refer to the Cisco User Control Point Administrator Guide.

Preparing for Solaris Installation

This section describes the hardware and software requirements for:

UCP---Hardware and software requirements for installation on a Sun Solaris system.
CiscoSecure---Hardware requirements, because UCP requires pre-installation of the CiscoSecure ACS product.

Sun Solaris Hardware Requirements

This section describes the hardware requirements for installing UCP at a service provider NOC and at a point of presence (POP). It also describes the hardware requirements for the CiscoSecure ACS.

Hardware Requirements for a NOC Installation of UCP

For a NOC installation, UCP requires the following hardware:

Minimum of one Sun Ultra Enterprise computer
Minimum of one processor per instance of each UCP service

: At a NOC, the ActiveWeb Information Broker, each DNS service (primary and secondary), each Data Store, and each mother cache (primary and secondary) must either be installed on a separate host or have at least one processor on which to run.

Minimum of 512 MB of RAM per system
300-MHz processor (for each processor)
30 GB of contiguous hard disk space (single or disk array)

Hardware Requirements for a POP Installation of UCP

For a POP installation, UCP requires the following hardware:

A Sun Enterprise Ultra Server with a minimum of five 300-MHz processors---or five separate Solaris systems. If you use separate Solaris systems, see the next section.
A minimum of 512 MB of RAM on each system or on each separate processor.
A minimum of 30 GB of contiguous hard disk space (single disk or disk array).

Note If you use ADSL, you must install a Cisco 6510 Service Selection Gateway at the POP.

Hardware Requirements for Individual Solaris Systems

If you will run UCP at your POP on individual Solaris systems, Cisco recommends that each system be configured as follows:

Sun Ultra 2 running Solaris version 2.5.1 with patches 103566-25, 103600-18, and 103640-14. To check the patch level, use the command showrev -p.
4 GB hard drive
256 MB of RAM
Minimum of 200-MHz CPU

Hardware Requirements for CiscoSecure

The CiscoSecure ACS must be installed for UCP to function correctly. UCP requires the following hardware:

Sun SPARCstation or compatible workstation (SPARC 20 or faster recommended)

256 MB of RAM
Minimum of 500 MB of free disk space for the first 10,000 users, and 256 KB for each additional 1000 users
CD-ROM drive

Software Requirements for a Sun Solaris Installation

Installation of UCP on a Sun Solaris platform requires Sun Solaris version 2.5.1 with patches 103566-25, 103600-18, and 103640-14. To check the patch level, use the command showrev -p.

Preparing the Primary Host for Installation

Before installing UCP components on the Sun Solaris host, make sure:

You are logged in as root.
The system has an /etc/rc2.d directory.
The root partition on the system has a minimum of 500 MB of disk space.

Preparing for Windows NT Installation

The NCC component of UCP runs on a Windows NT workstation or server. This section describes the hardware and software requirements for a Windows NT system running the NCC.

Cisco recommends that you install the NCC on a "clean" Windows NT system---one that does not have other applications installed on it.

Hardware Requirements for Windows NT

To run the NCC on a Windows NT system, you must have:

Intel Pentium processor with a minimum clock speed of 200 MHz
64 MB of RAM
Minimum of 1.5 GB of free disk space
CD-ROM drive

Software Requirements for Windows NT

The Windows NT system running the NCC must be running Windows NT version 4.0 or higher with service pack V1.0.

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