Voyager Client Installations
Desktop Services - Cornell University Library
Last updated: 6/13/2000. Oliver Habicht <oh10@cornell.edu>
The Voyager Implementation Management Team has tasked DLIT's Desktop Services with managing the Voyager client distribution. We welcome suggestions from support staff, unit leaders, and library committees for ways in which we can improve this process. Suggestions or questions may be directed to ltd-l@cornell.edu.
Three key elements contribute to successful Voyager client installations:
Desktop Services recommends that each unit have someone locally available who is knowledgeable in installing, configuring, and updating the Voyager software to meet your unit's needs. For instance, in the endowed libraries, these are usually unit Network Administrators. In support of this recommendation, Desktop Services has created documentation geared towards unit support staff. In addition, Desktop Services will continue to provide Voyager client installation training to support staff either one-on-one or through hands-on group sessions. Please advise us of any needs your support staff require regarding the Voyager software installations so we can better serve you.
Unit support staff will have access to Cornell's password-restricted software distribution site and be able to monitor cul-netadmin-l for Voyager client update announcements. Support staff are also invited to contact Desktop Services for Voyager client support either at ltd-l@cornell.edu or 5-8530. If we can't solve your problem, we can follow up with other staff and Endeavor.
All staff providing Voyager client installation support should subscribe to cul-netadmin-l. To do so, send a message to listproc@cornell.edu with the body of the message reading:
subscribe cul-netadmin-l Yourfirstname Yourlastname
To successfully use the Voyager clients, your desktop computer must be adequate. The minimum desktop configuration for Voyager 2000 is available at Endeavor's web site. (We'll be starting with Voyager 99.1, but Endeavor only has hardware requirements for the forthcoming Voyager 2000.) Note that you will need Cornell's username and password (available from unit managers or support staff) to access this part of Endeavor's corporate web site. If your hardware is inadequate, please notify your supervisor.
Units must also consider their printing needs under Voyager, and make sure these needs can be adequately meet. Desktop Services is currently exploring several staff printing options within the Voyager environment, and thus welcomes your ideas.
Oliver Habicht <oh10@cornell.edu>, Director of Desktop Services, is available for unit-wide hardware consultations.
All support staff should get their own copy of Amy Blumenthal's now-famous "Voyager Brain Dump for Net Admins," available at the password-secured FTP server described below. It is the official CUL Voyager client installation and configuration manual, complete with Cornell-specific details you will need to make the Voyager software work here at Cornell. It addresses not only the "how" but the "why," giving context to the many configuration settings.
The Voyager client installers and a copy of the Voyager brain dump are on our FTP server, digilib.library.cornell.edu. The login name is Voyager. Please contact us by phone (5-8530) if you don't know the password.
Desktop Services has created an installer to greatly simplify the installation process. (Kudos to Amy Blumenthal!) It not only encapsulates the various software pieces provided by Endeavor, but also incorporates Cornell-specific configurations. This Cornell-specific installer comes in one piece and includes Cornell customizations (tag tables and templates for cataloging, special templates for circulation, Cornell's own voyager.ini file, etc.). At the FTP site, this Cornell-specific installer is called VoyagerSetup.exe, and it's inside a folder called CUL Voyager Installer.
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