Novell EDIRECTORY 8.8 - GUIDE 09-2006 User manual

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Novell eDirectory 8.8 What's New Guide

eDirectoryTM

8.8

June 09, 2006

WHAT'S NEW GUIDE

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About This Guide

Welcome to Novell®eDirectoryTM 8.8. This guide introduces you to the new features in this product.

eDirectory 8.8 provides a host of new features and enhancements to further strengthen eDirectory's

leadership in the directory market.

This guide introduces the following:

•Chapter 1, “Install and Upgrade Enhancements,” on page 7

•Chapter 2, “Multiple Instances,” on page 21

•Chapter 3, “Authentication to eDirectory through SASL-GSSAPI,” on page 29

•Chapter 4, “Enforcing Case-Sensitive Universal Passwords,” on page 33

•Chapter 5, “Priority Sync,” on page 41

•Chapter 6, “Data Encryption,” on page 43

•Chapter 7, “Bulkload Performance,” on page 47

•Chapter 8, “iManager ICE Plug-ins,” on page 49

•Chapter 9, “LDAP-Based Backup,” on page 53

•Chapter 10, “Managing Error Logging in eDirectory 8.8,” on page 55

•Chapter 11, “Offline Bulkload Utility: ldif2dib,” on page 65

•Chapter 12, “Miscellaneous,” on page 67

Audience

The guide is intended for network administrators.

Feedback

We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other documentation

included with this product. Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the

online documentation, or go to www.novell.com/documentation/feedback.html and enter your

comments there.

Documentation Updates

For the most recent version of this guide, see Novell eDirectory 8.8 What's New Guide (http://

www.novell.com/documentation/beta/edir88/edir88new/data/front.html).

Additional Documentation

For more information about eDirectory 8.8, refer to the following:

• Novell eDirectory 8.8 Installation Guide

• Novell eDirectory 8.8 Administration Guide

• Novell eDirectory 8.8 Troubleshooting Guide

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These guides are available at Novell eDirectory 8.8 documentation Web site (http://

www.novell.com/documentation/edir88/index.html).

For information about the eDirectory management utility, refer to Novell iManager 2.5

Administration Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/imanager25/index.html).

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within a cross-reference path.

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trademark.

When a single pathname can be written with a backslash for some platforms or a forward slash for

other platforms, the pathname is presented with a backslash. Users of platforms that require a

forward slash, such as Linux* and UNIX*, should use forward slashes as required by your software.

Install and Upgrade Enhancements

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Install and Upgrade

Enhancements

This chapter discusses the new features and enhancements with the Novell®eDirectoryTM 8.8

installation and upgrade.

The following table lists the new features and specifies the platforms they are supported on.

The following features are discussed in this chapter:

•Multiple Package Formats for Installing eDirectory 8.8 (page 8)

•Automatic Deployments (page 8)

•Installing and Configuring eDirectory Through YaST (page 10)

•Installing eDirectory 8.8 in a Custom Location (page 10)

•Nonroot Install (page 12)

•Standards Compliance (page 13)

•Server Health Checks (page 14)

•SecretStore Integration with eDirectory (page 19)

•Unattended Upgrade to eDirectory 8.8 SP1 on Netware (page 19)

Feature NetWare Linux UNIX Windows

Multiple package formats for installing eDirectory 8.8

Automatic deployment through Ximian®ZENworks®Linux

Management 2.2

Install and configure eDirectory through YaST

Custom location install for application files

Custom location install for data files

Custom location install for configuration files

Nonroot install

FHS compliance

LSB compliance

Server health checks

SecretStore integration

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1.1 Multiple Package Formats for Installing

eDirectory 8.8

On Linux* and UNIX, you have an option to choose from various file formats while installing

eDirectory 8.8 on your host. The file formats are listed in the table below.

For more information on installing using tarballs, refer to the Novell eDirectory 8.8 Installation

Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/edir88/edirin88/data/a79kg0w.html#bs6a3gs).

1.2 Automatic Deployments

eDirectory 8.8 on Linux leverages ZENworks®Linux Management to provide easy upgrade

distribution and deployment. For more information, refer to ZENworks Linux Management (http://

www.novell.com/products/zenworks/linuxmanagement/index.html).

Type of User and

Installation Location Linux Solaris AIX HP-UX

Root user:

Default location RPM Package File-set Depot

Custom location Tarball Package and

tarball

Tarball Depot and tarball

Nonroot user:

Custom location Tarball Tarball Tarball Tarball

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1.2.1 Upgrade Distributions

With eDirectory 8.8, you can subscribe to a specific feature that eDirectory offers and whenever

there is an update (upgrade or patch) to this feature on the Novell site, you will automatically get this

update.

Figure 1-1 Upgrade Distributions

To facilitate this, you need to install the ZENworks Linux Management client on the host where

eDirectory 8.8 is present and subscribe to the ZENworks Linux Management server that would

inform you when there is an update.

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1.2.2 Easy Deployments

With eDirectory 8.8, you can install eDirectory on a host that has the ZENworks Linux Management

server installed and then roll it out to the other servers that have installed ZENworks Linux

Management clients.

Figure 1-2 eDirectory Distribution through RedCarpet

1.3 Installing and Configuring eDirectory

Through YaST

On SLES 9.1 or otherwise known as Open Enterprise Server (OES), you can install and configure

eDirectory 8.8 through YaST.

For more information on installing and configuring eDirectory through YaST, refer to the Novell

eDirectory 8.8 Installation Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/edir88/edirin88/data/

a79kg0w.html#bv1lxl8).

1.4 Installing eDirectory 8.8 in a Custom

Location

eDirectory 8.8 gives you the flexibility to install the application, data, and configuration files in a

location of your choice.

One of the scenarios for installing eDirectory 8.8 in a custom location is when you already have an

earlier version of eDirectory installed on your host and you want to test eDirectory 8.8 before

upgrading to it. This way, you can have your existing eDirectory setup undisturbed and also test this

new version. You can then decide whether you want to retain your existing version or want to

upgrade to eDirectory 8.8.

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