Installing Or Upgrading Novell Edirectory On Netware; System Requirements - Novell EDIRECTORY 8.8 Installation Manual

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Installing or Upgrading Novell eDirectory on
NetWare
Use the following information to install or upgrade Novell
server:

System Requirements

For information on hardware requirements, see
Prerequisites
"System Requirements" on page 7
"Prerequisites" on page 7
"Hardware Requirements" on page 8
"Forcing the Backlink Process to Run" on page 9
"Updating the eDirectory Schema for NetWare" on page 9
"Installing or Upgrading Novell eDirectory on NetWare" on page 10
You can upgrade to eDirectory 8.8 on the following version of NetWare:
NetWare 6.5 with Support Pack 3 or later (http://support.novell.com/filefinder/18197/
index.html)
Administrative rights to the eDirectory tree so you can modify the schema.
If you are installing into an eDirectory tree that has NetWare and Windows servers, each
NetWare server must be running:
NetWare 5.1 with Support Pack 8 (http://support.novell.com/filefinder/9331/index.html)
or later
NetWare 6.0 with Support Pack 5 (http://support.novell.com/filefinder/13659/
index.html) or later
NetWare 6.5 with Support Pack 3 (http://support.novell.com/filefinder/18197/
index.html) or later
Each Windows server must be running eDirectory 8.7.3 or later.
(Conditional) NICI 2.7 and eDirectory 8.8 support key sizes up to 4096 bits. If you want to
use a 4 KB key size, every server must be upgraded to eDirectory 8.8. In addition, every
workstation using the management utilities, for example, iManager and ConsoleOne, must
have NICI 2.7 installed on it.
Manual (ENU) 21 December 2004
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eDirectory
"Hardware Requirements" on page

Installing or Upgrading Novell eDirectory on NetWare

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