November 2013 Scheduled Maintenance
November 2013 Scheduled Maintenance has been released
How to apply the patch with zypper. YaST Online Update can also be used.
List repositories to ensure the update the server is registerd and the updated repository is present
zypper lr
Should see the following:
nu_novell_com:OES11-SP1-Updates | OES11-SP1-Updates | Yes | Yes
List patches in the Updates repository
zypper pch OES11-SP1-Updates
Should see the following:
OES11-SP1-Updates | oes11sp1-November-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance | 8483| recommended | Needed
Install the maintenance patch
zypper up -t patch oes11sp1-November-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance
Then list the patches again to verify the patch is listed as Installed
zypper pch OES11-SP1-Updates
Should see the following:
OES11-SP1-Updates | oes11sp1-November-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance | 8483
To apply all OES11 SPa updates run the following command
zypper up -t patch -r OES11-SP1-Updates
To apply all SLES 11 SP2 updates run the following command
zypper up -t patch -r SLES11-SP2-Updates
Key DSfW specific bugs fixed with this… Continue reading
September 2013 Scheduled Maintenance
July2013 Scheduled Maintenance has been released
How to apply the patch with zypper. YaST Online Update can also be used.
List repositories to ensure the update the server is registerd and the updated repository is present
zypper lr
Should see the following:
nu_novell_com:OES11-SP1-Updates | OES11-SP1-Updates | Yes | Yes
List patches in the Updates repository
zypper pch OES11-SP1-Updates
Should see the following:
OES11-SP1-Updates | oes11sp1-September-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance | 8284| recommended | Needed
Install the maintenance patch
zypper up -t patch oes11sp1-September-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance
Then list the patches again to verify the patch is listed as Installed
zypper pch OES11-SP1-Updates
Should see the following:
OES11-SP1-Updates | oes11sp1-September-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance | 8284| recommended | Installed
September 2013 Scheduled Maintenance for OES11SP1 (8284)
Key DSfW specific bugs fixed with this maintenance patch for OES11SP1
- 816488 – DSfW: Migration does not retain sysvol facls
- 828484 – OES11 SP2: eDirectory cored… Continue reading
How To Register OES and SLES Servers Using Command Line and a Script
It is important to keep your servers at the current patch level. Usually there are many bugs fixed and if you come across a new issue it helps Novell Support the the Developers.
I like to use the command line to register my servers. It is easy and relatively fast compared to the GUI. Even easier is to use a script. Just copy the script to the server, modify the e-mail account and registration codes and run the script. If something happens to the update services and repositories just run the script to clean up the old and re-register.
Below is a video demonstrating the register.sh script
TID 3030847 goes over the command line process.
Note: do not include < > for email or regcodes in the examples below
The command to register a OES server is
suse_register -a email=<user@email.com> -a regcode-sles=<your sles code>… Continue reading
July 2013 Scheduled Maintenance
July2013 Scheduled Maintenance has been released
How to apply the patch with zypperList repositories
zypper lr
Should see the following:
nu_novell_com:OES11-SP1-Updates | OES11-SP1-Updates | Yes | Yes
List patches in the Updates repository
zypper pch OES11-SP1-Updates
Should see the following:
OES11-SP1-Updates | oes11sp1-July-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance | 7889 | recommended | Needed
Install the maintenance patch
zypper up -t patch oes11sp1-July-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance
Then list the patches again to make sure it is installed
zypper pch OES11-SP1-Updates
Should see the following:
OES11-SP1-Updates | oes11sp1-July-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance | 7889 | recommended | Installed
July 2013 Scheduled Maintenance for OES11SP1
Key DSfW specific bugs fixed with this maintenance patch for OES11SP1
- 806538 – MS cluster support in DSfW
- 816741 – DSFW: ldapsearch fails when the entryDN specified in search filter contains spaces before or after comma.
- 818366 – xadsd crashes in rpc__naf_addr_free ()
- 819547 – DSFW: No results for ldapsearch with… Continue reading
May 2013 Scheduled Maintenance
May 2013 Scheduled Maintenance has been released
How to apply the patch with zypperList repositories
zypper lr
Should see the following:
nu_novell_com:OES11-SP1-Updates | OES11-SP1-Updates | Yes | Yes
List patches in the Updates repository
zypper pch OES11-SP1-Updates
Should see the following:
OES11-SP1-Updates | oes11sp1-May-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance | 7715 | security | Needed
Install the maintenance patch
zypper up -t patch oes11sp1-May-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance
Then list the patches again to make sure it is installed
zypper pch OES11-SP1-Updates
Should see the following:
OES11-SP1-Updates | oes11sp1-May-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance | 7715 | security | Installed
May 2013 Scheduled Maintenance for OES11SP1 7715
Key DSfW specific bugs fixed with this maintenance patch for OES11SP1
- – 769530: OES11SP1LH: DSfW provisioning task “Assign Rights” – rerun fails with error -614 (entry already exists)
- – 783005: DSFW: AD Ping doesn’t… Continue reading
April 2013 Scheduled Maintenance
April2013 Scheduled Maintenance has been released
How to apply the patch with zypperList repositories
zypper lr
Should see the following:
nu_novell_com:OES11-SP1-Updates | OES11-SP1-Updates | Yes | Yes
List patches in the Updates repository
zypper pch OES11-SP1-Updates
Should see the following:
OES11-SP1-Updates | oes11sp1-April-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance | 7421 | security | Needed
Install the maintenance patch
zypper up -t patch oes11sp1-April-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance
Then list the patches again to make sure it is installed
zypper pch OES11-SP1-Updates
Should see the following:
OES11-SP1-Updates | oes11sp1-April-2013-Scheduled-Maintenance | 7421 | security | Installed
April 2013 Scheduled Maintenance for OES11SP1 (7421)
Key DSfW specific bugs fixed with this maintenance patch for OES11SP1
- – 770208: OES11SP1LH: DSfW provisioning of DNS generates duplicate forward and reverse lookup zones if they already exists
- – 785697: Provsioning pre healthCheck fails in ADC.
- – 791640: DSFW FTU1:During ADC Provosioning PreCheck, the… Continue reading
November 2012 Scheduled Maintenance for OES2SP3
November 2012 Maintenance patch for OES2P3 has been released
Key DSfW specific bugs fixed with this maintenance patch
- 736416: DSfW – Apple OSX Compatibility: Login to DSfW without ID mapping doesn’t work
- 739450: DSfW: W32Time auth provider for ntp does not work in a cross partition setup
- 768113: DSFW: xadsd crashes in dcerpc libprot\_ncacn.so library
- 769945: Assignment of users of authorise RDP Access to Windows Workstation
- 771993: gposync runs in a loop
- 774802: xadsd crashes in rpc\_\_list\_element\_alloc ()
- 778235: gposync tool reports success even if nsimAssignments is not updated
- 783939: DSFW: No results for LDAP Query when OID is used instead of attribute name in the search filter.
- 784366: xadsd crashes in rpc\_\_cn\_binding\_inq\_addr () due to failed NTLMSSP authentication requests
- 790470: KDC service and Domain services daemon does not come up post Nov 2012 patch build installed
Key CIFS, DNS, and AFT specific bugs fixed with this maintenance… Continue reading
VMWare and best practices for Timekeeping
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of requests for timekeeping best practices for VMWare
VMWare has a great support article on this. Below are the SLES recommendations. The article can be found here
| SLES 11 (All updates) | No additional kernel parameters required. | |
| SLES 10 SP4 on ESX 5.0 and later | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP4 on ESX 4.x | Use a VMI enabled kernel. | |
| SLES 10 SP3 on ESXi 5.0 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP3 on ESX 3.5 and 4.x | Use a VMI enabled kernel. | |
| SLES 10 SP3 on ESX 3.0.x and earlier | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP2 on ESXi 5.0 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP2 on ESX 3.5 and 4.x | Use a VMI enabled kernel. | |
| SLES 10 SP2 on ESX 3.0.x and earlier | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP1 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 9 (All updates) | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 8 | No additional kernel parameters required.… Continue reading |
Script to check if ports are listening
If you are concerned about a DSfW service going down and or the port is not accessible, this script will help keep the services up or notify you of a service going down. The script will check if each DSfW service is listening, then telnet to each port. If it can not telnet, the script will log which port is not accessable in the /var/opt/novell/xad/log/dsfw_portchk.log.
The dsfw_portchk.sh script can be ran on PDC or ADC, running Novell DNS or not running Novell DNS.
The script can also e-mail and restart the services if desired.
It will detect if the server has IPv6 enabled so to properly detect the correct port Samba and NetBios is listening on.
The script detects if Novell DNS is configured to start. Some times on ADC servers DNS is not configured or is not set to run. The original script… Continue reading
June 2012 OES2SP3 Hot Patch for NCP and FTP 8170
TID 5144804 (32 bit) and 5144805 (64 bit)
Files Included
ovell-libncputil-1.0.1-0.9.x86_64.rpm 12.4 KB (12788)
novell-libncputil-32bit-1.0.1-0.9.x86_64.rpm 12.5 KB (12825)
novell-ncpenc-5.1.5-0.65.x86_64.rpm 581.9 KB (595918)
novell-ncpns-5.3-0.20.x86_64.rpm 51.3 KB (52589)
novell-ncpserv-2.0.3-0.38.x86_64.rpm 847.5 KB (867866)
novell-ncpserv-nrm-2.0.3-0.25.i586.rpm 341.1 KB (349309)
novell-ncpserv-tools-2.0.3-0.38.x86_64.rpm 182.6 KB (187033)
novell-pure-ftpd-config-1.1.0-0.12.x86_64.rpm 7.4 KB (7647)
June 2012 OES2SP3 Hot Patch for NCP and FTP
- – 612700: pure-ftpd seg fault if init script contains PRELOAD line for libldapsdk.so
- – 612452: Restore of NSS metadata fails via xattr when there are no local replica on the server
- – 745847: AFP core for MapGUIDToID function call
- – 747903: NSS: NSSMU throws error 23388 during volume creation
- – 748802: viewing user quotas from iManager give CIMOM error after deleting the user having quota
- – 749428: SMS Backup Performance degradation after OES2 SP2 to SP3 upgrade
- – 755875: zERR\_USER\_ABORTED when trying to update eDirectory for pool object
- – 756027: OES2SP3 – segfault in adminusd