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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Unattended upgrade of eDirectory on UNIX
     Health Check of eDirectory instances before upgrade
     Upgrading of eDirectory 8.8 SP3 packages
     Update of environment variables
     Upgrading eDirectory instances using ndsconfig
Unattended Uninstallation of eDirectory on UNIX
     Removal of all instances of eDirectory
     Uninstall of eDirectory packages

Introduction

eDirectory is an infrastructure component being used in many of the Novell products. eDirectory support switches and options that facilitate the unattended Upgrade and Uninstallation on UNIX.

This paper discusses the features and the configuration necessary to perform an unattended Upgrade and Uninstallation of eDirectory on UNIX. This feature is supported in the eDirectory 8.8 SP3 release and onwards.

Unattended upgrade of eDirectory on UNIX

On UNIX, eDirectory provides switches and options along with the install script and configuration utility that facilitates the unattended upgrade. The following sections discuss various steps for unattended eDirectory upgrade on UNIX:

Health Check of eDirectory instances before upgrade

Health check of all the root instances planned for upgrade using ndscheck manually.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH, SHLIB_PATH and LIBPATH to the <untarred location of eDirectory>/eDirectory/setup/utils and run ndscheck from the following location <untarred location of eDirectory>/eDirectory/setup/utils using one of the below commands:

<untarred location of eDirectory>/eDirectory/setup/utils/ndscheck -a <user name> -w passwd --config-file <nds.conf with absolute path>

<untarred location of 88SP3>/eDirectory/setup/utils/ndscheck -a <user name> -w env:<environment variable> --config-file <nds.conf with absolute path> 

Passing the password through environment variable

<untarred location of 88SP3>/eDirectory/setup/utils/ndscheck -a <user name> -w file:<filname> --config-file <nds.conf with absolute path> 

Passing the password through file

Any one of the above can be used in the automated script for the health check.

example:

/Builds/eDirectory/utils/ndscheck -a admin.novell -w n
/Builds/eDirectory/utils/ndscheck -a admin.novell -w env:ADM_PASWD
/Builds/eDirectory/utils/ndscheck -a admin.novell -w file:adm_paswd

For further details of ndscheck refer to man pages of ndscheck.

Upgrading of eDirectory 8 8 SP3 packages

Run nds-install script to upgrade the packages as below:

nds-install -u -c server -c admutils -i -j 

Upgrade of individual components is also supported (either Server or Administration Utilities). If individual component is being specified, then upgrade server followed by Administration Utilities.

Update of environment variables

The following environment variables have to be updated:

ATH=/opt/novell/eDirectory/bin:/opt/novell/eDirectory/sbin:$PATH

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/novell/eDirectory/lib:/opt/novell/eDirectory/lib/nds-modules:/opt/novell/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

MANPATH=/opt/novell/man:/opt/novell/eDirectory/man:$MANPATH

TEXTDOMAINDIR=/opt/novell/eDirectory/share/locale

Upgrading eDirectory instances using ndsconfig

Upgrading eDirectory using ndsconfig for all the root instances using below commands:

ndsconfig upgrade -a <user name> -w passwd -c --config-file <nds.conf with absolute path>

ndsconfig upgrade -a <user name> -w env:<environment variable> -c --config-file <nds.conf with absolute path>

Passing the password through environment variable

ndsconfig upgrade -a <user name> -w file:<filename with absolute/relative path> -c --config-file <nds.conf with absolute path>

Passing the password through file

Any of the above can be used in the automated script for the eDirectory upgrade.

example:

ndsconfig upgrade -a admin.novell -w n -c –config-file
/etc/opt/novell/eDirectory/conf/nds.conf 

ndsconfig upgrade -a admin.novell -w env:ADM_PASWD -c --config-file
/etc/opt/novell/eDirectory/conf/nds.conf

ndsconfig upgrade -a admin.novell -w file:/Builds/88SP3/adm_paswd -c --config-file
/etc/opt/novell/eDirectory/conf/nds.conf

For further details of ndsconfig refer to man page of ndsconfig

Unattended Uninstallation of eDirectory on UNIX

Removal of all instances of eDirectory

Removal of all instances of eDirectory using ndsconfig:

ndsconfig rm -a <user name> -w passwd -c

ndsconfig rm -a <user name> -w env:<environment variable>  -c 

Passing password through environment variable

ndsconfig rm -a <user name> -w file:<filename with absolute/relative path> -c 

Passing password through file

Any one of the above can be used in the automated script for the DS upgrade.

example:

ndsconfig rm -a admin.novell -w n -c
ndsconfig rm -a admin.novell -w env:ADM_PASWD -c
ndsconfig rm -a admin.novell -w file:/Builds/88SP3/adm_paswd -c

Uninstall of eDirectory packages

Run nds-uninstall script to remove the eDirectory packages as below:

nds-uninstall -u -c server -c admutils  

Uninstall of individual components is also supported (either Server or Administration Utilities). If an individual component is specified, then follow the order of the Administration Utilities followed by Server.

Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.