Installing Novell Edirectory On Netware; Prerequisites; Updating The Edirectory Schema - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

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 a SET
DSTRACE=*B command from the server console. Running the backlink process is especially
important on servers that do not contain a replica.
I N S T A L L I N G N O V E L L E D I R E C T O R Y O N N E T W A R E
If your eDirectory tree does not have a Novell Certificate Server
program does the following:
Creates a Security container object for the entire eDirectory tree
This object is created at the top of the eDirectory tree and must remain there.
Creates an Organizational Certificate Authority (CA) object
Places the Organizational CA object in the Security container
Only one Organizational CA object can exist in an eDirectory tree. Because you must not move
this object from one server to another, ensure that the first eDirectory server is the one that you
intend to permanently host the Organizational CA object.

Prerequisites

If you are installing into a tree that has NetWare 5 servers, each NetWare 5.0 server must be
running NetWare 5.0 Support Pack 5 or later. Each NetWare 5.1 server must be running NetWare
5.1 Support Pack 1 or later.
If you are upgrading eDirectory on a NetWare 5.1 server, the NetWare 5.1 server must be running
NetWare 5.1 Support Pack 2a or later.

Updating the eDirectory Schema

To upgrade an existing NetWare 5.x server to eDirectory into an existing tree, update the
eDirectory schema by running DSREPAIR on the server that has the master replica of the Tree
partition.
If the master replica of the Tree partition resides on a Windows NT/2000 server,
IMPORTANT:
follow the instructions in "Updating the eDirectory Schema" on page
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, the eDirectory installation
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