This book is intended for people who want to train themselves as Abilis systems planners and integrators. The underlying requisite is a general knowledge of telecommunication networks and protocols, especially IP and ISDN.

This book is composed of five parts.

Communication with Abilis CPX is illustrated in this way:

[18:06:39] ABILIS_CPX: d t
Current Local Time        : Friday 15/05/2015 15:32:57 (UTC+2.00)
Local Time Zone           : CET - Central Europe (Rome, Paris, Berlin, Pragu...
Currently Observing       : Daylight Savings Time (DST)
Clock Reference           : SNTP
Clock Reference state     : Working
Clock last synchronized   : 15/05/2015 at 15:23:30 Delta:0 sec.

The communication starts with a prompt, issued by the Abilis, in the above example called “ABILIS_CPX”. User commands follow on the same line (d t is a command to display date and time information). The text after the d t command is information output by the “ABILIS_CPX”.

If commands are presented in normal text, they look like this: d d telnet. Names of configuration parameters, diagnostic fields or statistic counters look like this: KEEPALIVE (uppercase configuration parameters can be modified at run time, that is, while ABILIS is running, while lowercase parameters require a reboot). Named values for configuration parameters look like this: YES.

Additional information can be marked as a “Note”:

	Note
	Reasonable typographic conventions facilitate reading.

Good practices or easy-ways to results are marked as a “Tip”:

	Tip
	Reading the Abilis tutorial is the most reliable way to learn the Abilis features.

Actions which may produce unwished effects are marked with “Caution”:

	Caution
	Before entering IPACL instructions, double check not to make yourself filtered out!

Information about actions that can potentially lead to data loss or hardware damage are marked as “Warning”:

	Warning
	Don't pour water into Abilis CPX, its behavior cannot be guaranteed in this case.

This tutorial is the result of a collaborative effort of the following contributors (in alphabetical order):

Any suggestions or comments can be sent to Abilis technical support (<tem@antek.it>).