# Installation Guide

# Documentation

You can access ALSM documentation by clicking the Help button in the ALSM Management Console. The documentation is presented in an online help format. The documentation set includes a printable Introduction to ALSM in PDF format, several tutorials, and context-sensitive help topics.

## Hosted versus Local Documentation

When you access the documentation by clicking the Help button, you are actually viewing documentation hosted at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13172_01/alsm/docs26. By hosting the documentation, we can give you access to the most up-to-date version.

If you are working without an Internet connection and want to view this documentation locally, go to http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13172_01/alsm/docs26/localdoc/ and follow the instructions for downloading and installing the documentation. Then, in the ALSM Management Console, click the Set Local/Remote Documentation link in the E-menu and then choose the Local radio button.

Note: | We recommend that whenever possible you use hosted documentation.

## Sample Web Applications

The AquaLogic SOA Management tutorials contain a series of hands on exercises that demonstrate the functionality provided by the system components. To use the tutorials, see the Tutorials section in the online help, available at the following URL:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13172_01/alsm/docs26/webhelp/index.htm

The online tutorials use several sample web applications named bookmart, bookmartClient, tutorial, tutorialBackup, and tutorialClient. The web services deployed in these applications run in the same container as ALSM services