Broadband Customer Reporting – XML Release 2 Issue 16.8a

InterfaceThe underlying technology at the BT end of this interface is the same as used for the web reports available to SPs. Therefore thesupport for this should follow existing procedures.Building the Perl LibraryThis section looks at all the required modules required as part of your PERL installation in order to execute the template script andrefers to the more-popular UNIX-flavour of the product. For Windows-based installation, refer to documentation fromActiveState/CPAN.The aim of this section is to detail the installation of Perl and the associated modules to enable remote interfacing with the BBCR.Documentation for all of the modules can be found at:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/Installation• Get appropriate PERL 5.8.0 for OS e.g.ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/8/perl-5.8.0-sol8-sparc-local.gzInstall (as root) viacd /tmpgunzip perl-5.8.0-sol8-sparc-local.gzpkgadd -d perl-5.8.0-sol8-sparc-local.gzModify .profile to add /usr/local/bin as the 1 st entry in the path (ensure this version of perl used).• Install gcc if not available on system e.g.ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/8/gcc-3.2-sol8-sparc-local.gzinstall as above• Get zlib library for OS e.g.ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/8/zlib-1.1.4-sol8-sparc-local.gz