DSfW and eDirectory Health Check
It is a good idea to periodically check the health of DSfW and eDirectory servers.
This video concentrates on a script I wrote that can be ran on both eDirectory and DSfW servers.
The script demonstrated in this video is called dsfw_edir_healthchk.sh. To get the latest version of the script click on the DSfW Health Check link in the download section on DSfWDude.com.
A great TID to start off with for a eDirectory health check is TID 3564075.
On a DSfW server start off with an eDirectory health check as well as TID 7001884 which has DSfW specific commands to check the health and overall operation of a DSfW server.
The script does most of the suggestions in both TIDs mentioned above plus a few more checks.
For eDirectory there are 8 checks the script does and… Continue reading
Troubleshooting slow logins and unresponsive DSfW servers
I have seen several issues were a DSfW server becomes sluggish or unresponsive. Logins can take several minutes. Some times ndsd or another DSfW process crashes.
If a DSfW server running DNS has a DSfW specific process stop or crash a quick stop gap measure is to monitor the DSfW processes and restart them if one or more of the DSfW processes stop. I created a simple script that will check that a pid exists for each process. The script is called dsfw_processchk.sh. While it does not restart DSfW in every condition like if a process continues to run but is not responding or say a process crashes but the pid is never cleaned up, it does work for most situations. Create a cron job to run the script every hour, 30 minutes, 10 minutes, what ever you desire. My… Continue reading
eDirectory Post-887 Kerberos
TID 5088210
This patch has been made available to resolve installation failures due to signed Kerberos packages when installing eDirectory 8.8 SP6 or 8.8 SP7 on a recently patched Red Hat 6.2 server. For more information please refer to TID 7006535.
details
This patch can be used to avoid signed kerberos package errors during the installation of 8.8 SP6 and 8.8. SP7 on non-OES platforms. This patch also contains instructions on how to resolve the installation failure after it has happened.
Issues Resolved:
Post 887 Kerberos
Linux:
– Installation of novell-kerberos-base and novell-kerberos-ldap-extensions rpms fails on RedHat 6.2 with current updates.
TID 7006535
Installation Instructions
Before attempting to install eDirectory 8.8.7 on Red Hat 6.2
Essentially an overlay will be created by replacing the original Kerberos packages with the new ones prior to installing eDirectory on the server.
32-Bit eDirectory :
Log in as a user with root privileges… Continue reading