Novell EDIRECTORY 8.8 SP1 Installation Manual

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36 Novell eDirectory 8.8 Installation Guidenovdocx (en) 6 April 2007NOTE: By default, gettext is not installed on the base install of SLES9, but is included in theSLES9 install CD's. Ensure you install it before you run nds-install, or you will get messagesabout it missing.3.2 PrerequisitesIMPORTANT: Check the currently installed Novell and Third Party applications to determine ifeDirectory 8.8 is supported before upgrading your existing eDirectory environment. You can findout the current status for Novell products in the TID - What Novell products are supported withNovell eDirectory 8.8? (http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?10099872.htm). Wealso highly recommend you to back up eDirectory before any upgrades. (Conditional) NICI 2.7 and eDirectory 8.8 support key sizes up to 4096 bits. If you want to usea 4 KB key size, every server must be upgraded to eDirectory 8.8. In addition, everyworkstation using the management utilities, for example, iManager and ConsoleOne, musthave NICI 2.7 installed on it.When you upgrade your Certificate Authority (CA) server to eDirectory 8.8, the key size willnot change; it will be 2 KB. The only way to create a 4 KB key size is recreate the CA on aneDirectory 8.8 server. In addition, you would have to change the default from 2 KB to 4 KB forthe key size, during the CA creation.For more information, refer to Section 3.6.2, “Installing NICI,” on page 47. SLP installed and configuredWith eDirectory 8.8, SLP does not get installed as part of the eDirectory installation.Only a root user can install SLP.For more information on installing SLP, refer to “Using SLP with eDirectory” on page 46. The Linux host enabled for multicast routingTo check if the host is enabled for multicast routing, enter the following command:/bin/netstat -nrThe following entry should be present in the routing table:224.0.0.0 0.0.0.0If the entry is not present, log in as root and enter the following command to enable multicastrouting:route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev interfaceThe interface could be a value such as eth0, hme0, hme1, or hme2, depending on the NIC thatis installed and used. Network server time synchronizedUse Network Time Protocol's (NTP) xntpd to synchronize time across all network servers. Ifyou want to synchronize time on Linux, Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX systems with NetWare®servers, use timesync.nlm 5.09 or later. compat-libstdc++ RPMIf the compat-libstdc++ RPM is not present on your host machine, install it. This RPMcontains libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2. compat