Provisioning the Infrastructure for Unwired Platform

Provision infrastructure and other resources, as needed to support deployment of the Unwired Platform system.

This high-level task includes activities required to provision the IT infrastructure needed to support Sybase Unwired Platform servers and related systems.

  1. Provision physical plant resources, including:
    • Data center (rack space, cable drops, etc.)

    • Utilities (power, air conditioning, etc.)

  2. Provision network resources, including:
    • Hardware (switches, routers, bridges, etc.)

    • Services (DNS, WINS, domain controllers, Internet proxy, load balancers, etc.)

    • Subnets, virtual LAN, VPN, etc.

    • Storage network/fabric, zones, etc.

  3. Provision security resources, including:
    • Access controls (LDAP or Active Directory groups, roles, etc.)

    • Authentication artifacts (server-side and client-side certificates, etc.)

    • Transport security mechanisms (SSL/TLS encryption, etc.)

    • Intrusion detection and prevention mechanisms (IDS/IDPS, HIPS, etc.)

  4. Provision host platforms/systems for:
    • Unwired Platform server hosts (Unwired Server and data tier servers)

    • Failover cluster hosts (data tier servers)

    • Shared cluster storage (SAN, LUNs, etc.)

    • Web server hosts (Relay Server)

    • SySAM license server hosts

  5. Provision EIS resources, including:
    • EIS connections, access, authentication, etc.

    • EIS drivers, connector applications, gateways, etc.

  6. Provision SySAM licenses.
    1. Install and configure SySAM license servers (served license model).
    2. Obtain license files and deploy to appropriate hosts.