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Installation Instructions
NetAct Plan Editor 19.8

Version, status 1.9 Approved

Date 2020-09-22
Change History

Version Status Date Reviewed by Comments

0.1 Created 2018-01-29 Created for NetAct

Plan Editor 17.8.3.
1.0 Approved 2018-04-23 Jozef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 18.0.0.
1.1 Approved 2018-06-25 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 18.0.1
1.2 Approved 2018-08-24 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 18.0.2
1..3 Approved 2018-12-17 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 18A.0
1.4 Approved 2019-01-16 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 18A.0.1
1.5 Approved 2019-03-16 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 18A.2
1.6 Approved 2019-06-21 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 19.0
1.7 Approved 2019-08-01 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 19.2
1.8 Approved 2019-10-15 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 19.3
1.9 Approved 2019-11-20 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 19.3.1
1.10 Approved 2020-01-29 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 19.4
1.11 Approved 2020-04-25 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 19.5

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1.12 Approved 2020-05-20 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct

Plan Editor 19.6
1.13 Approved 2020-07-20 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 19.7
1.14 Approved 2020-09-20 Józef Radecki Updated for NetAct
Plan Editor 19.8

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Contents
1 Overview ................................................................................................................................ 5

2 Preparations .......................................................................................................................... 5

2.1 Required software, components and CDs ........................................................................ 5

2.2 Other Requirements ............................................................................................................ 6
3 Making safe copy of the package ....................................................................................... 6

4 SW update downloading instructions ................................................................................ 6

5 SW Installation....................................................................................................................... 6

5.1 Installation ............................................................................................................................. 6

6 Checking the package consistency .................................................................................... 7

7 Fallback .................................................................................................................................. 8

8 Troubleshooting ................................................................................................................... 8

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1 Overview

CD title NETACT PLAN EDITOR 19.8

Target Release NetAct 19

Prerequired CD Set or CD(s) None

Replaced CD(s) and/or TN(s) NETACT PLAN EDITOR 19.7

Changes to be included in None

Release / CD Set

Operating system: Windows

Cluster: Standalone

Software builds and modified components delivered in this delivery are explained in the
Change Note document.

2 Preparations
This chapter lists the required software and other information needed before this delivery
installation can be started.

2.1 Required software, components and CDs

The following software or system components are required in the NetAct environment before
the installation:

Windows Workstation
• The supported operating systems are Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.
Application may work for other Windows versions too, but they are not officially
supported.
• Installation files and other related content is delivered in a ZIP archive, which requires
compatible SW for decompression (e.g. WinZip® or 7-Zip).
• Viewing application help requires PDF browser. The help files are displayed by default
PDF browser.

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• MSXML 3.0 SP2 component, or more recent MSXML 3.0 SP, is required for XML file
support. This is included at Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8. If running another
Windows version, it can be either:
o installed from http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads or
o installed from media of previous Plan Editor deliveries. Running
msxml2sp2Setup.exe installs the SW. Last delivery where msxml2sp2Setup.exe
is included is OSS_CD_2977.

2.2 Other Requirements

To avoid problems due to multiple versions of Plan Editor installed on the same system, it is
advised to uninstall previously installed versions of Plan Editor and clean up old configuration
and temporary files created by Plan Editor.

3 Making safe copy of the package

Before starting the Application installation make sure that necessary up to date backups have
been taken.

Especially make sure that the up to date backups of databases (*.mdb files), including user
data, have been taken.

4 SW update downloading instructions

Download this delivery from Support Portal (https://customer.nokia.com/support/s/). Old
privileges granted access to NOLS are obsolete, new ones required. After log in to Support
Portal go to tab Services (https://customer.nokia.com/support/s/services) and then select link
to Download SwST. It will open old NOLS page (Software Supply Tool). In text field Search
software type Plan Editor and start search (button GO). Go to version NetAct Plan Editor 19.8
and start download. If you don’t see list of software (only documentation is visible) you must
ask support of Software Supply Tool to grant full privileges.

5 SW Installation
5.1 Installation

This chapter explains how to uninstall previous version of Application and install this delivery
on Windows based workstation.

Before installation of new delivery on computer with previous version of Plan Editor installed,
uninstallation and clean up procedure is required. Uninstallation procedure should be run once

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by user with administrative privileges but clean up – for each user account that was used to
work Plan Editor with on this workstation. Clean up is required if Plan Editor was installed inside
“Program Files” or “Program Files (x86)” folders.

Uninstallation of previous version

1. Login to the workstation as an administrator user.

2. From the installation folder of Plan Editor run unins000.exe file.
3. On “Nokia NetAct Plan Editor Uninstall” widow select button “Yes”.
4. On “Remove Shared Files” window select button “Yes to All”.
5. Once uninstallation is finished, navigate to the folder, where Plan Editor was installed and
delete all remaining files and folders (if any).
Clean up after uninstallation

1. Login to the workstation using account that was used to work with Plan Editor.
2. On drive, where operating system is installed, navigate to folder:
<disk_name>:\Users\<account_name>\AppData\Local
3. Look for directory named “VirtualStore”. If directory is not present, clean up procedure for
this user is finished.
4. In case “VirtualStore” folder exists, enter it and look for a folder structure reflecting
previous installation path (default is Program Files (x86)\Nokia\NetAct Plan Editor).
5. Once such folder structure is found, delete all files and folders in it, starting from Nokia
folder.
6. Repeat procedure for each required user account.
Installation

1. Login to the workstation as an administrator user.

2. Unzip NetAct_Plan_Editor_19.8.zip file from the installation media to any new folder.
3. From folder containing extracted Plan Editor installation package run setup.exe.
4. Select Destination Location: Accept or change the installation directory. Click Next.
5. Select Start Menu Folder: Accept or change the start menu folder. Click Next.
6. Copy the Nokia License Key XML file (delivered separately) to the installation directory
defined in step 4.
7. Launch application as normal user.

6 Checking the package consistency

1. Click Start → Programs → Nokia NetAct Plan Editor

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2. The Plan Editor start-up dialog appears on the screen. Version 19.8 is visible and licensing
should be for "Customer, Country" without expiry date. In case of expiry information on the
screen, you should contact OSS Product Management as described earlier.
3. Click New Database… button, select name and location for new database (*.mdb), network
elements and versions as needed, and click Create button. For performance is recommended to
select only the necessary network elements. The new database is automatically opened.
4. For getting objects to database, you can for example import actual data from NetAct
Configurator CM Operations Manager:
4.1 From CM Operations Manager, open Export Actual Configuration dialog, select
network elements (with version equal to selected for database), export target, RAML2.0
export format, internal values, and click Start button.
4.2 From Plan Editor, open Import dialog, select “Default OSS” profile, name of input
file, import actual data, and click Import button.
5. Click Object Browser icon (the leftmost button on the main window) or select View → Object
Browser to open dialog and list the database objects. The tree view should list several NMSs
and the imported objects when expanded.

7 Fallback
1. Uninstall NetAct Plan Editor 19.8.
- Login to the workstation as an administrator user.
- Click Start → Settings → Control Panel.
- Double Click Programs and Features.
- Select Nokia NetAct Plan Editor from the list and click Uninstall.
- Confirm the dialog by clicking Yes.
- Confirm removing all Shared Files in dialog Remove Shared Files by clicking Yes to All.
- Note: Uninstall does not remove files added after installation eg. license file. You can remove
these files manually.
2. Re-install the previous version of NetAct Plan Editor.
3. Copy the database files (*.mdb) from backup to the folder where application is installed

8 Troubleshooting
1. Sometimes after installation new version users can’t find list of adaptation delivered with
newest version of Plan Editor. It is caused be remained parts of previous version of Plan
Editor installed on given machine by given user. If before installation of new version old
version wasn’t uninstalled successfully user should perform action described in p. 5 as
follow: uninstall version wrongly installed, perform clean up after uninstallation, install again

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new version of Plan Editor (in current case Plan Editor ver. 19.8). Below at screen shoot was
presented folder which should be checked and cleaned as it was described in p. 5, in part
“Clean up after uninstallation”.

Fig. 1. Graphical presentation location of folder

C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86) in Windows
Explorer

Described above action should be executed by each user which will use new installed version
of Plan Editor on given machine.

2. Standard privileges granted to internal users in NOLS doesn’t allow download any software
package. With this privilege user have access to documentation (e.g. to hereby Instruction
Installation) only. It causes confusing during download software, which is mentioned above in
chapter 4 (SW update downloading instructions). Below is official answer from Support Portal
(NOLS is a part of Support Portal) which partially clarified what internal user should to do in
case of lack of access to installation package of Plan Editor:
To improve service to Nokia’s customers, the Support portal help desk mailbox is now used
only for external user support (customers, partners, vendors).
Questions or issues related to employee accounts should be raised to IT via the standard
channels, namely via the IT Service Portal to raise a SNOW incident or Service Request (Search
for ‘Support portal’).
Escalations for customer issues can be raised via the appropriate CaPM/eService Manager
and escalations for employee tickets via your local IT Client Service Manager.
Please raise your concern In Snow tool using Nokia IT (https://nsnsi.service-now.com/).

It should help in case of any problem with downloading software from Support Portal (in fact
from NOLS).

3. In NOLS there isn’t direct access to software package of Plan Editor. Plan Editor isn’t
displayed as separate position in Software Catalog list. In order to find package of Plan Editor
user must use “Search software” edit field and type Plan Editor. Situation is presented below.
In search result will be displayed list of all officially released versions of Plan Editor.

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