What's New For Bcc 1.2; Bcc 1.2.0 Patch (January 2010); Bcc Engine; Bcc Resource Driver Template For Identity Manager - Novell BUSINESS CONTINUITY CLUSTERING 1.2 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

What's New for BCC 1.2

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This section describes the changes and enhancements that were made to Novell
Continuity Clustering (BCC) 1.2 for Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) 2 Support Pack 1 (SP1)
since the initial release of BCC 1.2.
Section 2.1, "BCC 1.2.0 Patch (January 2010)," on page 25
Section 2.2, "Identity Manager 3.6.1 Support (June 2009)," on page 26
Section 2.3, "BCC 1.2 for OES 2 SP1 Linux," on page 26

2.1 BCC 1.2.0 Patch (January 2010)

In January 2010, a BCC 1.2.0 patch is available through the OES 2 SP1 Linux patch channel
(oes2sp1-January-2010-Scheduled-Maintenance-6749). For information about applying the patch,
see Chapter 5, "Updating (Patching) BCC 1.2.0 on OES 2 SP1 Linux," on page
The major changes for BCC 1.2.0 are described in the following sections:
Section 2.1.1, "BCC Engine," on page 25
Section 2.1.2, "BCC Resource Driver Template for Identity Manager," on page 25

2.1.1 BCC Engine

The BCC 1.2.0 patch includes the following major bug fixes for the BCC engine:
Improves the update process to wait for the
before running the BCC install scripts. (Bug 561055)
Modified the
novell-bcc init.d
Typically, the wait is less than 10 seconds.
Modified the post-install script of the Novell BCC specification file to wait up to 5
seconds when
Improves memory management functions that might cause the
the code was simplified and clarified so that the shared memory functions now do exactly what
their names describe. The
keys are not in use by other processes, then to use the verified unique keys for its processing
threads. (Bug 553527)
Improves the detection and handling of
not caught and handled where it occurs, the engine's main thread detects the exception and
gracefully shuts itself down. (Bug 428161)

2.1.2 BCC Resource Driver Template for Identity Manager

The BCC 1.2.0 patch for OES 2 SP1 Linux includes a new BCC resource driver template for
Identity Manager that offers the following new feature and bug fixes:
Uses a newer policy linking format so that you are no longer prompted to update the driver in
iManager. (New)
script to wait up to 15 seconds when
is stopped. Typically, the wait is about 1 second.
adminfsd
daemon was modified to generate unique keys to verify that the
bccd
No Memory
and daemons to gracefully stop
adminfsd bccd
bccd
exceptions. In addition, if an exception is
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bccd
daemon to die. Overall,
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