Documenting Your Environment

There are a number of parameters that you might need to note before installing Novell BorderManager 3.8.

• Location of license diskettes or path to the license file
• Public and private interfaces and their IP address bindings
• Domain Name System host name
• IP addresses for up to three DNS name servers on the network
• Domain Name for Mail Proxy and whether you want to proxy an internal mail server or external mail server or both
• Server certificates if secure LDAP is to be used for schema extension
• Default gateway
• If you are installing VPN services, document the following:
  • Server certificate to be used for the VPN server
  • Trusted Root Certificate name
  • Trusted Root Object names

  Refer to Certificate-Based Authentication and Configuring VPN Services for more details.