IMPORTANT:Check the currently installed Novell and Third Party applications to determine if eDirectory 8.8 is supported before upgrading your existing eDirectory environment. You can find out the current status for Novell products in the TID - What Novell products are supported with Novell eDirectory 8.8?. You are highly recommended to back up eDirectory before any upgrades.
Enable the AIX host for multicast routing.
See if the multicast routing daemon mrouted is running.
If it is not running, configure and start the multicast daemon mrouted.
See the “mrouted.conf File” section in the Files Reference book in AIX Documentation for an example configuration file.
(Conditional) NICI 2.7 and eDirectory 8.8 support key sizes up to 4096 bits. If you want to use a 4 KB key size, every server must be upgraded to eDirectory 8.8. In addition, every workstation using the management utilities, for example, iManager and ConsoleOne, must have NICI 2.7 installed on it.
When you upgrade your Certificate Authority (CA) server to eDirectory 8.8, the key size will not change; it will be 2 KB. The only way to create a 4 KB key size is recreate the CA on an eDirectory 8.8 server. In addition, you would have to change the default from 2 KB to 4 KB for the key size, during the CA creation.
The package containing NICI 2.7 is named NOVLniu0-2.7 on AIX. For more information, refer to Installing NICI.
If you have more than one server in the tree, the time on all the network servers should be synchronized.
Use Network Time Protocol's (NTP) xntpd.nlm to synchronize time.
(Conditional) If you are installing a secondary server, all the replicas in the partition that you install the product on should be in the On state.
(Conditional) If you are installing a secondary server into an existing tree as a nonadministrator user, ensure that you have the following rights:
Supervisor rights to the container the server is being installed into.
Supervisor rights to the partition where you want to add the server.
NOTE:This is required for adding the replica when the replica count is less than 3.
All Attributes rights: read, compare, and write rights over the W0.KAP.Security object.
Entry rights: browse rights over Security container object.
All Attributes rights: read and compare rights over Security container object.
(Conditional) If you are installing a secondary server into an existing tree as a nonadministrator user, ensure that at least one of the servers in the tree has the same or higher eDirectory version as that of the secondary being added as container admin. In case the secondary being added is of later version, then the schema needs to be extended by the admin of the tree before adding the secondary using container admin.
While configuring eDirectory, you must enable SLP services and an NCP™ port (the default is 524) in the firewall to allow the secondary server addition. Additionally, you can enable the following service ports based on your requirements:
LDAP clear text - 389
LDAP secured - 636
HTTP clear text - 8028
HTTP secured - 8030
In case, if you have enabled user-defined ports, you must mention these ports while configuring eDirectory.
During eDirectory upgrade, if SecretStore has not already been configured with the previous versions, or you do not want to configure SecretStore, use the -m no_ss option with the nds-install utility.
Static IP address must be configured on the server for the eDirectory to perform efficiently. Configuring eDirectory on the servers with DHCP address can lead to unpredictable results.