Novell Small Business Suite What's New and Best Practices

Robert Strasser

Consultant/Analyst

ClearView Consulting

Troy Wilde

Product Manager

Novell, Inc.

Agenda

What’s new in Novell Small Business Suite 6.5

Pre-install check - new, in place or migration

New install or In place upgrade

Migrating to Novell Small Business Suite

Post migration configuration

Tips, Tricks & Troubleshooting

Q & A

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Introduction

Troy Wilde

Product Manager for Novell Small Business

Robert Strasser, CNE

Sr. Systems Engineer for ClearView Consulting Seattle, Washington

Robert has been working with Novell products for ten years, three years as a reseller specializing in Novell Small Business Suite

Performed over 40 server upgrades and migrations last year

NSBS 6.5 Refreshed to NSBS 6.6

Update ZENworks for Desktops with ZENworks for Desktops 6.5

Update BorderManager 3.8 with BorderManager 3.8 SP3

Update NetWare 6.5 to NetWare 6.5 SP3

Those who have NSBS 6.5 and have current upgrade protection will get NSBS 6.6 for free

Those who have purchased NSBS 6.5 and have current upgrade protection will get NLSBS 9 for free and can deploy the server along side the NetWare installation, but will stay at existing NSBS 6.5 user count

Pre-install check - new, in place or migration

What are the risks and rewards?

Search Novell support site with the key words of “server migration” and 9277 TID's are returned.

Are you worried?

Don't be, if you plan appropriately you can steer clear of 99.9% if them

File copy will not copy open files but the failure will be logged so you can go back for the missed files.

New or in place install allows you the ability to install services right away.

Migration servers need to have the services installed after.

New or migrating vs. in place is cleaner if you have a prior configuration that is not well documented and has a lot of unknown variables. Sometimes a clean start is the best approach

Pre-Install Check - New Install

New server install:

Boot the server from the Novell Small Business Suite 6.5 OS disk

Do you have enough licenses?

If you are planning on migrating data to this server later:

Download the most current server consolidation utility!

Set your time source to the same as other server

Configure SLP on both servers

Use DNS or update the Host file on both servers

Is the SYS and DATA partition big enough?

Configure your clients for SLP and contextless login

This is a no/low risk method and is easy to back out from

Great for moving from Windows to NetWare or off peer-to-peer

Tip: To see the individual products selected in each pattern, select it and click Next. Then click Back and select the Customize option. All the products will display individually with the pattern defaults checked.

Choose your Install Pattern

Configure Directory Agents

Either specify the IP addresses of the Directory Agents on your network or, if no Directory Agents exist on your network, check the Configure This Server As a DA check box.

Configure Time Zone and NTP

The server time and time zone are important in order to synchronize network events

You may use the IP address above that references time from the National Institute of Standards and Technology

On the Time Zone page, click Advanced

GroupWise

Run the wizard from a workstation with client32

If you want your mailboxes to be automatically created during the install, the user objects must be in eDirectory before the wizard is run

Printers

Update the firmware on print servers

Document existing printer models to associate the correct print drivers

Post Install Configuration

BorderManager

Why install BorderManager last?

BorderManager Cache volume size must be greater than the largest download file size

If you know you are going to Install BorderManager, check the box to install BM-TCPIP. If you forgot, you can do a remote install from iManager COOL!

If you configured RBS you will need to update it so the BM options show up in iManager.

Modify or Add firewall filters as needed

Create NAT(s) if needed

Post Install Configuration (cont.)

Pre-install check - In-place Upgrade

In-place server upgrade:

Document your existing configuration with config.nlm TID-2970585

Is the processor and memory sufficient for an in-place upgrade?

Is the DOS and SYS partition big enough? Purge volume first with toolbox. NetWare Server Tools v2.15 - TID-2958910

Did you get at least 2 verified backups of the server?

Update the hardware BIOS and RAID controller

Comment out non-essential items in the autoexec.ncf prior to the upgrade

Add IP to the server if it is only running IPX

Run TBACKUP utility for each volume on the source server and copy TRESTORE.BAT(s) to workstation. TID-2937757

Export your DNS-DHCP scopes to workstation or load on an alternate server that is in the same tree

Pre-install check – In-Place Upgrade (cont.)

In place server upgrade: (cont.)

Health check DS.

TID10021958 In-place Upgrade Health Check for 5.X

Run Dsrepair and clear up any errors

Run Dsrepair -rc and copy DIB file to workstation

Modify login scripts as needed and check to see if the server name is part of your map commands

Obtain the correct software versions for NetWare 6.5 to reinstall backup software, anti-virus....etc

This is the highest risk method If you run into problems it is time consuming to back out later. Have a plan in place.

Pre-install check - Migration

Server migration:

Document your existing configuration of your source server with config.nlm. This is a handy reference for later TID-2970585

Is the target SYS and DATA partition big enough to hold the migrated data uncompressed?

Did you get at least 1 verified backup of the source server?

Update the hardware BIOS and RAID controller on the target

Run TBACKUP utility for each volume on the source server and copy TRESTORE.BAT for each volume to local workstation. TID-2937757

Comment out non-essential items in the source autoexec.ncf

Add IP to the source server if it is only running IPX

Export your DNS-DHCP scopes to workstation or load on an alternate server that is in the same tree

Pre-install check - Migration (cont.)

Server migration: (cont.)

Health check source server DS.

TID10021958 Health Check for 5.X

Run Dsrepair and clear up any errors

Run Dsrepair -rc and copy DIB file to workstation

Check for active print Que's

Modify login scripts as needed

Obtain the correct software versions for NetWare 6.5 to reinstall backup software, anti-virus....etc

Might be a good time to run a GWcheck if your migrating GroupWise.

This is a low/medium risk method If you run into problems it is moderately easy to back out. Have a plan in place.

OK, My data is moved, now what?

Check to see if your trustees were properly restored.

CAUTION! If you changed your data paths with the migration wizard you need to account for this.

Run a post migration DS health check

Launch Startx and install the required products and services

Small Business Setup Wizards in iManager

Internet Connectivity

IP addresses/mask, DNS server addresses

DNS

Make a local domain with caching and forwarding

DHCP

If you run DNS first, almost everything is defaulted

Global DHCP Preferences add SLP DA IP Address

Post Migration Configuration

Tips and Tricks

Restoring DS after the migration wizard fails. - TID10066225

If coming from NDS 6/7, wizard copies the Backup.nds file to SYS:SYSTEM on the destination server and to SYS:SYSTEM\NUW30\NDSBU on the source server.

If coming from NDS 8x (eDirectory), it copies the backup directory $HWNDS.BAK to the destination SYS:SYSTEM\$HWNDS.BAK and to the SYS:\SYSTEM\NUW30\NDSBU\$HWNDS.BAK directory on the source server.

Detailed Steps of the Migration Wizard – TID10070726

Replacing server references using XBrowse utility. - TID10057553

SMDR errors - Most can be corrected by unloading and running SMDR NEW

Tips and Tricks (cont.)

Trustee issues - Select Restore Trustees on the toolbar of the Migration Wizard or use your Trestore.bat as a fall back.

NICI errors - Go to the Novell Support Web site and download nrepair3.exe

PKI errors – Run PKIDIAG.NLM

After installation, use the Novell iManager utility to install additional licenses and configure products

Use an overlay CD for installing your Server. This will prevent a lot of common error that you would encounter vs. using the base CD

Tips and Tricks (cont.)

Add user contexts to NetStorage in iManager

Add an A record for GroupWise called ngwnameserver so the clients can find the GroupWise server IP

Configure Virtual Office Services and User contexts to the Portal container search list

Install GroupWise on the destination server and then after the upgrade make sure in ConsoleOne that the MTA, POA, Etc. are pointing to the correct address. Copy your existing config files from SYS:MIG to your SYS:SYSTEM

Don’t forget to configure SLP on the client

Read the read me file

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