Polycom PICTURETEL 140 User Manual

PictureTel 140 LiveManager
Gatekeeper Software

Release Notes

Version 4.01.001

July 29, 1999

Overview

PictureTel LiveManager 4.01 is a member of PictureTel’s family of collaborative computing conferencing
products designed specifically for the LAN. LiveManager 4.01 is a H.323 Version 2 compliant gatekeeper
application that manages PictureTel LiveLAN and H.323 calls and provides additional functionality to the
LiveLAN, LiveGateway, PictureTel 240 and PictureTel 330 products.

LiveManager 4.01 is compatible with LiveLAN 3.1, Intel TeamStation, Intel ProShare, PictureTel 550,
LiveGateway 3.1, PictureTel 330 v2.0, PictureTel 240 v1.0 and LiveManager 3.1.

LiveManager 4.01 is an enhancement of LiveManager 3.1 providing new features and improved interoperability
with PictureTel’s and third party vendors’ H.323 products.

LiveManager 4.01 includes the following features:

• Support for Windows NT 4.0 TCP/IP systems

• Bandwidth Management

• Gateway Sharing

• Extended Name Resolution

• Microsoft Internet Locator Server (ILS) registration using LDAP

• Extensive Monitoring and Logging capabilities

• Year 2000 Compliance

• H.323 Version 2 Compliance NEW

• Gatekeeper Routed Call Signaling NEW

• Web Browser Based User Interface NEW

Additional information about this product, including how to install and use it, is available in the Installation and
Administrator’s Guide. The guide is located on the distribution CD in the \doc directory. The guide is provided

in HTML and Word 97 formats.

These Release Notes are organized into the following sections:

• System and Network Requirements

• Installing LiveManager

• Deinstalling LiveManager

• New Features

• Restrictions and Recommendations

• Helpful Hints

• Identified Problems

• On-line Documentation

• Software Components

System and Network Requirements

You can install LiveManager 4.01 on the following minimum system configurations:

Gatekeeper Service:

• Pentium 200 MHz

• Windows NT 4.0 Server or Workstation with Service Pack 3 and TCP/IP

• 64 MB memory

Web UI Service:

• Pentium 150 MHz

• Windows NT 4.0 Server with Service Pack 3 and Internet Information Service (IIS) 4.0 with Front Page

Server extensions.

• 64 MB memory

If you install both components on the same NT server, it's recommended that the server have a minimum of 128
MB of memory.

Installing LiveManager 4.01

If you are installing LiveManager 4.01 on a system where LiveManager 3.0/3.1 is already installed,
you must first uninstall LiveManager 3.0/3.1:

1. Begin by copying the configuration and call history files into a temporary directory (such as

c:\temp) outside of the \livemanager directory. The files you are interested in are calls_*_*.log,

calls.log, livemgr.cfg, net_topo.top

2. Now uninstall LiveManager 3.0/3.1. Reboot the PC if necessary.

3. Create a

c:\program files\picturetel\livemanager directory and copy the files into this directory.

4. Install LiveManager 4.01 into the directory created in step 3. One or more of the files copied
in step 3 will be slightly modified.

The installation program "

setup.exe" for LiveManager 4.01 is found in the \disk1 directory of the

installation files. The installation files are found on the distribution CD or in the PictureTel release
Web site.

(if it exists) and did2tid.pbk (if it exists).

LiveManager 4.01 consists of two major components:

1. Gatekeeper service

2. Web UI service

Given these two components and their respective minimum system requirements, it is possible to
install LiveManager 4.01 in several combinations. Please see the PictureTel 140 LiveManager
Installation and Administration Guide for detailed installation instructions.

On a typical network, you need only one server running the Web UI service. This single Web UI
service will support browser access to one or more LiveManager 4.01 gatekeeper servers on the
network provided that the user has an account with administrator privileges on each server and that
the appropriate User Groups are created on each server. See the PictureTel 140 LiveManager
Installation and Administration Guide for more information on creating User Groups.

LiveManager Gatekeeper Service Files

LiveManager gatekeeper service files provide the H.323 gatekeeper services. The files are installed
into a LiveManager sub-directory. If you specify an installation path that does not end with this
sub-directory, it will be automatically appended to the path by the install process.

The default installation path is:

C:\Program Files\PictureTel\LiveManager.

The LiveManager gatekeeper service can be started or stopped using the Windows NT Services
Control Panel just like any other Windows NT Service.

LiveManager Web UI Service Files

The LiveManager Web UI service files consist of the PictureTel Web Center and the LiveManager
UI. At installation time if the PictureTel Web Center is not already installed on the server, it will be
installed. The LiveManager Web Service Files are installed at:

c:\InetPub\wwwroot\PictureTel\PictureTelWebCenter\LiveManager

A few LiveManager UI files are installed in the directory specified in the installation path.

Deinstalling LiveManager 4.01

Deinstalling LiveManager 4.01 can be performed by selecting the option labeled "

140 LiveManager

" from the Start menu or by selecting "PictureTel 140 LiveManager" from the

Add/Remove program in the Control Panel.

Remove PictureTel