Avaya PeriStudio 2.20 Release Notes

PeriStudio 2.20 Release Notes

Avaya Business Communications Manager

Document Status: Standard

Document Number: P0987098

Document Version: 1.5

Date: June 2010

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Table of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

How To Use This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Organization of This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Conventions Used in This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Solaris and Windows 2000 Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Trademark Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Installing PeriStudio on a Solaris Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Pre-Installation Requirements and Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Software Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Pre-Installation Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Installation Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Installing the PeriStudio Package (PERIpstu) . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Installing the PeriStudio License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Backing Up the Sample Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Installing PeriStudio on a Windows 2000 Platform . . . . . . 21

Pre-Installation Requirements and Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Software Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Pre-Installation Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Customer Workstation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

System Base Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Installation Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Installing the PeriStudio Package (PERIpstu) . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Installing the PeriStudio License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Backing Up the Sample Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Release Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Information About This Software Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

General Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

MultiMedia File Editor Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Waveform Editor Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Command Line Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Preface

This chapter covers:

1. Scope

2. Intended Audience

3. How To Use This Manual

4. Organization of This Manual

5. Conventions Used in This Manual

6. Trademark Conventions

PeriStudio 2.20 Release Notes

Scope

This document contains the following information relating to PeriStudio Release 2.20:

• Procedures for installing and/or upgrading to the new version of PeriStudio on an Avaya Media Processing Server (MPS) Series, standalone workstation, or PC. Separate chapters are provided for Solaris and Windows 2000 based systems.

• Description of new features and functionality in PeriStudio.

Intended Audience

This document is directed toward personnel who are responsible for upgrading or installing PeriStudio on an MPS Series, standalone workstation, or PC. For new PeriStudio users, it is assumed that you are familiar with the platform on which the software will be installed. Chapters covering new features and corrected defects are provided for informational purposes for experienced PeriStudio users.

How To Use This Manual

This manual uses many standard terms relating to computer system and software application functions. However, it contains some terminology that can only be explained in the context of the MPS Series. Refer to the Glossary of MPS Terminology for definitions of MPS Series specific terms.

Initially, you should read this manual at least once, from start to finish. Later, you can use the Table of Contents to locate topics of interest for reference and review.

If you are reading this document online, use the cross-reference links (shown in blue) to quickly locate related topics. <L with your cursor over the cross-reference link. Click on any point in a Table of Contents entry to move to that topic. Click on the page number of any Index entry to access that topic page.

To familiarize yourself with various specialized textual references within the manual, see Conventions Used in This Manual on page 7.

Periphonics is now part of Avaya. The name Periphonics, and variations thereof, appear in this manual only where it is referred to in a product. (For examples, a PeriProducer application, the PERImps package, the perirev command, etc.)

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Organization of This Manual

This manual is organized into separate chapters that explain the various aspects of the latest release of PeriStudio. The following summarizes the contents of each chapter.

• Chapter 1 - Installing PeriStudio on Solaris

Contains procedures for installing PeriStudio on a Solaris based MPS Series or standalone vocabulary development platform.

• Chapter 2 - Installing PeriStudio on Windows 2000

Contains procedures for installing PeriStudio on a Windows 2000 based MPS Series or PC.

• Chapter 3 - Release Notes

Contains a brief description of the new features, enhancements, and changes in this release.

Conventions Used in This Manual

This manual uses different fonts and symbols to differentiate between document elements and types of information. These conventions are summarized in the following table.

Preface

Conventions Used in This Manual Sheet 1 of 2

Notation Description

Normal text

important term

system command

command, condition

and alarm

file name / directory

on-screen field

Normal text font is used for most of the document.

The Italics font is used to introduce new terms, to highlight meaningful words or phrases, or to distinguish specific terms from nearby text.

This font indicates a system command and/or its arguments. Such keywords are to be entered exactly as shown (i.e., users are not to fill in their own values).

Command, Condition and Alarm references appear on the screen in magenta text and reference the Command Reference Manual, the PeriProducer User’s Guide, or the Alarm Reference Manual, respectively. Refer to these documents for detailed information

Commands, Conditions, and Alarms.

about

This font is used for highlighting the names of disk directories, files, and extensions for file names. It is also used to show displays on text-based screens (e.g., to show the contents of a file.)

This font is used for field labels, on-screen menu buttons, and action buttons.

A term that appears within angled brackets denotes a terminal keyboard key, a telephone keypad button, or a system mouse button.

Book Reference

This font indicates the names of other publications referenced within the document.

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Notation Description

Conventions Used in This Manual Sheet 2 of 2

cross reference

1. Windows 2000 and the flying Window logo are either trademarks or registered

trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation.

2. Solaris is a trademark or registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the

United States and other countries.

A cross reference is typically shown on the screen in blue. Click on the cross reference to access the referenced location. A cross reference that refers to a section name accesses the first page of that section.

The Note icon identifies notes, important facts, and other keys to understanding.

The Caution icon identifies procedures or events that require special attention. The icon indicates a warning that serious problems may arise if the stated instructions are improperly followed.

The flying Window icon identifies procedures or events that apply to the Windows 2000 operating system only.

The Solaris icon identifies procedures or events that apply to the Solaris operating system only.

Solaris and Windows 2000 Conventions

This manual depicts examples (command line syntax, configuration files, and screen shots) in Solaris format. In certain instances Windows 2000 specific commands, procedures, or screen shots are shown where required. The following table lists examples of general operating system conventions to keep in mind when using this manual with either the Solaris or Windows 2000 operating system.

Solaris Windows 2000

Environment $MPSHOME %MPSHOME%

Paths $MPSHOME/common/etc %MPSHOME%\common\etc

Command <command> & start /b <command>

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Trademark Conventions

The inter-operability of the following products or services and PeriStudio is incidentally discussed in this manual. These third party products are referred to by their common names in this manual. Subsequent references to these products may omit the registered trademark (®), symbol.

Motif® is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries.

Solaris, SunOS, OpenWindows, SPARC, and UltraSPARC are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Microsoft, Windows, and Windows 2000 are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft.

Pentium® and the Pentium Processor logo are registered trademarks of Intel.

Preface

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Installing PeriStudio

on a Solaris Platform

This chapter covers:

1. Pre-Installation Requirements and Considerations

2. Installation Procedures

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