Installation Guide
- Installation Guide
- What’s New or Changed in OES Install
- What’s New or Changed in OES 24.4
- Preparing to Install OES
- Before You Install
- Meeting All Server Software and Hardware Requirements
- OES eDirectory Rights Needed for Installing OES
- Installing and Configuring OES as a Subcontainer Administrator
- Preparing eDirectory for OES
- Deciding What Patterns to Install
- Obtaining OES Software
- Preparing Physical Media for a New Server Installation
- Setting Up a Network Installation Source
- Install Only One Server at a Time
- What's Next
- Installing OES as a New Installation
- Linux Software RAIDs Are Not Cluster Aware
- Linux Software RAIDs
- Starting the OES Installation
- Specifying Network Settings
- Specifying Customer Center Configuration Settings
- Specifying the Add-On Product Installation Information
- System Role in OES 24.4
- Setting Up Disk Partitions
- Setting Up the Clock and Time Zone
- Creating Local User
- Authentication for the System Administrator “root”
- Specifying the Installation Settings
- Configuring Open Enterprise Server
- Product Improvement
- Finishing the Installation
- Verifying that the Installation was Successful
- What's Next
- Installing or Configuring OES Services on an Existing OES Server
- Adding/Configuring OES Services on an Existing Server
- Adding/Configuring OES Services on a Server That Another Administrator Installed
- What's Next
- Upgrading OES
- Supported OES Upgrade Paths
- Planning for the Upgrade
- Meeting the Upgrade Requirements
- Upgrading OES
- Using AutoYaST for OES Upgrade
- Channel Upgrade from OES 24.3 to OES 24.4
- Verifying that the Upgrade was Successful
- What's Next
- Completing OES Installation Tasks
- Determining Which Services Need Additional Configuration
- Rebooting the Server after Installing NSS
- Restarting Tomcat
- Implementing Digital Certificates in an OES Environment
- Installing and Configuring NSS Active Directory Support
- Understanding the NSS AD Support
- NSS AD Support Matrix
- Prerequisites for Installing and Configuring NSS AD
- Installing OES 24.4 with NSS AD Support
- About Novell Identity Translator (NIT)
- Updating (Patching) an OES Server
- Overview of Updating (Patching)
- Preparing the Server for Updating
- Registering the Server in the Customer Center
- Updating the Server
- GUI Based Patching
- Frequently Asked Questions about Updating
- Patching From Behind a Proxy Server
- Installing the Latest iManager NPMs After Applying OES Patches
- Restarting the OES Instance of Tomcat After Applying a Tomcat Update
- Using AutoYaST to Install and Configure Multiple OES Servers
- Prerequisites
- Setting Up a Control File with OES Components
- Setting Up an Installation Source
- Cloning an OES Server Post OES Installation and Configuration
- Installing OES on a VM
- System Requirements
- Prerequisites
- Preparing the Installation Software
- Installing an OES 24.4 VM Guest
- Setting Up an OES VM Guest to Use Novell Storage Services (NSS)
- Deploying OES in a UEFI Secure Boot Environment
- Switching to SHA-2 SSL Certificates
- Configuring SHA-2 Certificate
- Verifying the Certificates with SHA-2 Signature
- Disabling OES Services
- Reconfiguring eDirectory and OES Services
- Cleaning Up the eDirectory Server
- Reconfiguring the eDirectory Server through YaST
- Reconfiguring OES Services
- Centralized Certificate Management
- Installing Centralized Certificate Management Binaries
- Upgrading OES Server
- Path to Important Certificate Management Files
- Usage of Commands
- Examples
- OES Multifactor Authentication Service
- Overview
- MFA Server Architecture
- Preparing to Deploy an MFA Server
- Deployment Recommendation
- Setting-Up an MFA Server
- Setting-Up Subsequent MFA Servers
- Configuring MFA Agent
- Configuring OES Services to Use MFA Service
- Command Line Utility of MFA Server
- Command Line Utility of MFA Agent
- Important Files and Folders
- Security Configurations
- Troubleshooting
- Security Considerations
- Access to the Server During an Installation or Upgrade
- Remote Installations Through VNC
- Improperly Configured LDAP Servers
- Troubleshooting
- Online Update Shows End of General Support Message
- Upgrade Failure in SUSE Xen Hypervisor Environment
- PID File Unavailable Message
- systemctl kill Not Supported
- Executing kinit Command Fails in .LOCAL Domain
- The OES Service Pattern Icons are not Displayed and OES Patterns are not in the Proper Order
- Deleting the Existing eDirectory Objects when Reinstalling the OES Server or Reconfiguring the eDirectory
- Problem In Assigning IP Address For autoinst.xml-based Installations
- eDirectory Restart Results in an Error Message on a Non-DSfW Server
- The DEFAULT SLP Scope Gets added to the slp.conf File During an Upgrade to OES 2018 or later
- The change_proxy_pwd.sh Script Fails to Synchronize Password
- OES Installation Fails Due to Encrypted OES Media URL in the autoinst.xml File
- Installing or Upgrading to OES 24.4 using AutoYaST Creates the OES Repository Name Using Random Characters
- Verification of the Container Object Fails During the AD Domain Join Process
- Timing Issues for OES on Xen
- OES File and Data Locations
- General Rules
- Exceptions
- AutoYaST XML Tags
- edirectory
- imanager
- iprint
- ncpserver
- ncs
- novell-cifs
- novell-dhcp
- novell-dns
- novell-lum
- nss
- oes-cis
- oes-ldap
- sms
- novell-nssad
- oes-umc
- oes-database
- Legal Notices