Avaya VisAbility Management Suite User Manual

Avaya VisAbility™ Management Suite
Release 1.2

Configuring Red Hat Linux

555-233-152

Issue 1

November 2002

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Preventing Toll Fraud

Toll Fraud is the unauthorized use of your telecommuni cations
system by an unauthorized party (for example, a person who is not
a corporate employee, agent, subco ntractor, or working on your
company’s behalf). Be aware that there is a risk of t oll fra ud asso­ciated with your system and that, if toll fraud occurs, it can result
in substantial addition al charges for y o u r telecommu nications ser­vices.

Avaya Fraud Intervention

If you suspect that you are being victimized by toll fraud and you
need technical assistance or support, call the Technical Service
Center’s Toll Fraud Intervention Hotline at 1.800.643. 2353.

Providing Telecommunications Security

Telecommunications security of vo ice, data, and/o r vi deo commu­nications is the prevention of any type of intrusion to, that is,
either unauthorized or m al ic io u s ac ce ss to or use of, your com­pany’s telecommunications equipment by some party.

Your company’s “telecommunications e qui pment” includes both
this Avaya product and any other voice/data/video equipment that
could be accessed via this Avaya product (that is, “networked
equipment”).

Y o ur Responsibility for Your Company’s Telecommunications
Security

The final responsibility for securing both this system and its net­worked equipment re sts with you – an Avaya customer’s system
administrator, your telecommunications peers, and your managers.
Base the fulfillment of your responsibility on acquired knowledge
and resources from a variet y of sources including but not limited
to:

• Installation documents

• System administration documents

• Security documents

• Hardware-/software-based security tools

• Shared information bet w e en yo u and your peers

• Telecommunications security experts

To prevent intrusions to your telecommunications equipment, you
and your peers should carefully program and configure your:

• Avaya provided telecommunications systems and their
interfaces

• Avaya provided software appli cations, as well as their
underlying hardware/software platforms and interfaces

• Any other equipment networked to your Avaya products

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An “outside party” is anyone who is not a corporate employee,
agent, subcontracto r, or working on your company’s behalf.
Whereas, a “malicious pa rty ” is Anyone, including someone wh o
may be otherwise authoriz ed, who accesses your telecommunica­tions equipment with either malicious or mischievous intent.

Such intrusions may be either to/throug h sync hronous (time-mul­tiplexed and/or circuit-b ase d) or a s ync hronous (character-, mes­sage-, or packet-based ) equipment or interfaces for reasons of:

• Utilization (of capabilities special to the accessed equip-

ment)

• Theft (such as, of intellectual property, financial assets, or
toll-facility access)

• Eavesdropping (privacy invasions to humans)

• Mischief (troubling, but apparently innocuous, tampering)

• Harm (such as harmful tampering, data loss or al terat i on,

regardl e s s of motive or intent)

Be aware that there may be a risk of unauthorized intrusions asso­ciated with your system and/or i ts ne tworked equipment. Also
realize that , if such an intrusion shoul d o ccur, it could result in a
variety of los s es to your company, including but not limited to,
human/data privacy, intellectual property, material assets, finan­cial resources, labor costs, and/or legal costs).

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Configuring Linux requires familiarity with Linux operating systems. Experience using Red
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The following additional books exist to help you during installation and configuration of
selected applications in the suite:

• Avaya VisAbility Management Suite Installation Overview, 555-233-148

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This document specifies the options that you must select during the installation of Red Hat
Linux 7.3 to support Avaya MultiVantage Fault & Performance Manager, Avaya MultiVantage
Proxy Agent, and Avaya MultiVantage Configuration Manager. This document is copied
from the appendix of the Avaya VisAbility Management Suite Implementation Guidelines,
which is available from your Avaya client executive.

If an option is not specified in this document, select the default response.

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1. At the “Install Type” prompt (screen #5), choose the ‘Install’ and ‘Server’ options.

2. At the “Disk Partitioning Setup” prompt (screen #6), choose ‘Manually Partition with

Disk Druid.’

3. At the “Disk Setup” prompt (screen #7), delete any partitioning that appears for the
hard drive, using the DELETE button.

4. Then, add partitions in accordance with the table below, using the ADD button.

The precise partition sizes are shown for a 40GB hard drive. If the hard drive is bigger
than 40GB, use the proportion column to partition the hard drive.

Proportion of
Mount
Point

/ 800 MB 2% ext3
/boot 100 MB 1% ext3
/home 7000 MB 18% ext3
/usr 13000 MB 33% ext3
/var 13000 MB 33% ext3
/swap 2048 MB 5% swap
/tmp 3000 MB 8% ext3

Partition Size
(40MB HD)

Disk Space

(>40MB HD)

File
System
Type

Total 38948 MB 100%

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5. At the “Network Configuration” prompt (screen #10), clear the ‘Configuration using

DHCP’ checkbox and instead select ‘static IP.’

6. Then, enter the static IP address; subnet mask; hostname; gateway; and primary,

secondary, and tertiary DNS addresses.

7. At the “Firewall Configurations” prompt (screen #12), select ‘No firewall’ with ‘Use

default firewall rules.’

* Note: The VisAbility Management Suite installation process will override the setting

and select the default firewall rules.

8. At the “Account Configuration” prompt (screen #15), enter the password for the root

user, and then add users including one for Avaya remote services.

9. At the “Package Group Selection” prompt (screen #16), select ‘Classic X window

System,’ ‘GNOME,’ and ‘Anonymous FTP Server.’

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1. After you install Red Hat, you must install the following individual RPM (Red Hat

Package Manager) files from the Red Hat CD:

a. mgetty (install 1st)

b. mgetty-sendfax

c. UUCP

2. In addition, verify that the following RPM files were loaded during the Red Hat

installation:

a. ppp

b. vnc

c. vnc-server

If you need to install an RPM, follow the instructions below.

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1. Insert the Red Hat installation CD in the CD-ROM drive.

2. Open the Terminal Emulation program.

3. Type cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS.

* Note: If Linux responds “directory does not exist,” you may have to manually mount

the CD-ROM drive. To do so, type: mount /mnt/cdrom, then repeat “cd”
command.

4. At the $ prompt, type rpm –iv <name of RPM package>.

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1. In the terminal emulation window, at the $ prompt, type rpm –qa <name of RPM

package>.

2. To search for RPM files using a partial RPM package name, at the $ prompt type:

Rpm –qa | grep <partial name with * for letters not specified>,

For example, rpm –qa | greg vnc*.rpm to determine if any RPM packages beginning
with “vnc” have been installed.

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