Installing or Upgrading Novell eDirectory on Linux 49novdocx (en) 11 July 2008 Section 3.5.3, “Upgrading Through ZENworks Linux Management on OES Linux SP3,” onpage 50 Section 3.5.4, “Upgrading eDirectory During OES 1.0 to OES 2.0 Upgrade,” on page 54 Section 3.5.5, “Upgrading the Tarball Deployment of eDirectory 8.8,” on page 55 Section 3.5.6, “Upgrading Multiple Instances,” on page 56 Section 3.5.7, “Disk Space Check on Upgrading to eDirectory SP3 or later,” on page 563.5.1 Server Health ChecksWith eDirectory 8.8, when you upgrade eDirectory, a server health check is conducted by default toensure that the server is safe for the upgrade: Section B.3.2, “Partitions and Replica Health,” on page 147Based on the results obtained from the health checks, the upgrade will either continue or exit asfollows: If all the health checks are successful, the upgrade will continue. If there are minor errors, the upgrade will prompt you to continue or exit. If there are critical errors, the upgrade will exit.See Appendix B, “eDirectory Health Checks,” on page 145 for a list of minor and critical errorconditions.Skipping Server Health ChecksTo skip server health checks, use nds-install -j or ndsconfig upgrade -j.For more information, see Appendix B, “eDirectory Health Checks,” on page 145.3.5.2 Upgrading on Linux Servers Other Than OESIf you have eDirectory 8.5.x or 8.6.x, you have to first upgrade to eDirectory 8.7.x and then upgradeto eDirectory 8.8.To upgrade to eDirectory 8.8, use nds-install utility. this utility is located in the Setup directory ofthe downloaded file for Linux platform. Enter the following command from Setup directory:./nds-installAfter the upgrade to eDirectory 8.8, the default location of the configuration files, data files, and logfiles are changed to /etc/opt/novell/eDirectory/conf, /var/opt/novell/eDirectory/data, and /var/opt/novell/eDirectory/log respectively.The new directory /var/opt/novell/eDirectory/data uses a symbolic link to the /var/nds directory.The old configuration file /etc/nds.conf is migrated to /etc/opt/novell/eDirectory/conf directory. The old configuration file /etc/nds.conf and the old log filesunder /var/nds are retained for reference.
