Overview

This chapter describes how to install the HP OpenCall SS7 software on a clean system on which no version of HP OpenCall SS7 has been previously installed. At the end of the installation, you will have a platform that uses a pre-defined configuration without SS7 hardware (you will later reconfigure the platform for full operational use).

	NOTE: When installing a new platform from scratch, please refer to “First Time Installation Overview” for guidance.If you have a machine on which HP has pre-installed the HP OpenCall SS7 3.1 on Linux software, you can omit this chapter.

The installation of HP OpenCall SS7 3.1 on Linux consists of three general phases, dealt with in separate sections of this chapter, as follows:

The section that follows gives the prerequisites for the installation.