Forcing The Backlink Process To Run; Updating The Edirectory Schema For Netware - Novell EDIRECTORY 8.8 Installation Manual

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Forcing the Backlink Process to Run

Because the internal eDirectory identifiers change when upgrading to Novell eDirectory, the
backlink process must update backlinked objects for them to be consistent.
Backlinks keep track of external references to objects on other servers. For each external reference
on a server, the backlink process ensures that the real object exists in the correct location and
verifies all backlink attributes on the master of the replica. The backlink process occurs two hours
after the database is open and then every 780 minutes (13 hours). The interval is configurable from
2 minutes to 10,080 minutes (7 days).
After migrating to eDirectory, we recommend that you force the backlink to run by issuing the
following commands from the server console. Running the backlink process is especially
important on servers that do not contain a replica.
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Updating the eDirectory Schema for NetWare

When upgrading a NetWare server to eDirectory 8.8, you might need to update the eDirectory
schema by running DSRepair on the server that has the master replica of the root partition.
I M P O R T A N T :
"Updating the eDirectory Schema for Windows" on page
To update the schema:
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At the server console, enter set dstrace=on.
Enter set dstrace=+blink.
Enter set dstrace=*b.
When the process is complete, enter set dstrace=off.
If the master replica of the root partition resides on a Windows server, follow the instructions in
Copy the appropriate dsrepair.nlm file from the product CD (or downloaded and expanded
file) to the sys:\system directory of the server that contains the master replica of the Tree
partition.
At the server console of the master replica of the root partition, load dsrepair.nlm.
Select Advanced Options Menu > Global Schema Operations.
Enter the Administrator's name (for example, Admin.VMP) and password.
In eDirectory 8.8 and later, you can have case sensitive passwords for all the utilities. Refer to
N O T E :
Novell eDirectory 8.8 What's New Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/edir88/index.html)
more information.
Select Post NetWare 5 Schema Update > Yes.
dsrepair.nlm updates the schema and posts the results to the dsrepair.log file.
Ignore errors associated with adding object classes. dsreapir.nlm is simply applying the Post
NetWare 5 Schema Update changes to each object.
Copy the appropriate patch version of dsrepair.nlm to each NetWare server in the eDirectory
tree.
Use the table in Step 1 as a reference. Having a correct version on each server ensures that the
schema needed for eDirectory is properly maintained when dsrepair.nlm is run in the future.
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