September 28, 2007
This readme contains the following sections:
The following issues were resolved in Support Pack 4:
Added support for removing optional attributes from Auxiliary classes.
Full-width and half-width digits for Telephone number and Fax Number field. Now full-width digits not accepted for these fields.
Issue with new IDM Administration tab, where the rollover text was not very visible.
Issue where iManager 2.7 plug-ins get installed on iManager 2.6.
Xml encoding issue that caused the object creation to fail if the name had an ampersand (&) character.
No action should be performed when you hit the Enter key after entering Username in certain pages.
Tomcat crashs during log in if the user name is
256 character long and also has a trailing dot.
Attributes does not display in page of task.
Dynamic group query builder cannot modify the query if it was modified by the editor.
Time out issue while handling large number of values in multi valued attributes.
Deletion and modification of object having forward slash (/) in the names.
iManager object history not saved unless you logout gracefully.
Failing plug-in uninstallation.
Incorrect message reported on saving changes when user does not have sufficient rights.
Buttons disappear from page of Japanese language.(212526)
The following issues were resolved in Support Pack 3:
Added support for Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional languages.
Updated eDirectory libraries to the shipping 8.8.1 versions. (157823).
Fix bug to allow saving reordered values in Plugin Studio. (168181).
Fix Advanced Selection Preview in DeleteObject and MoveObject tasks.
Fix Trustees not set if admin user does not have supervisor right on the home directory (195649).
Fix Apostrophe showing up as HTML code for a value in an attribute with a plugin created with Plugin-Studio (223642).
Fix Exporting Self Signed Cerificate shows "NPKIAPI - library could not be found" error on RHAS4.0 (238620).
Fix Advanced Selection dropdown box to view Aux class(es) with Firefox on Linux (200972).
Fix issue where the plug-ins that get delivered for a NetWare support pack are read-only. (244289).
- 161895, 247081
The following issues were resolved in Support Pack 2:
Fix (Integer-syntax IS-PRESENT) filter in Advanced Selection. (163922).
Handle big filter in Advanced Selection. (160739).
Do not interpret * as a wild card character in contextless login. Security issue. (177680).
Add security option in config.xml to hide specific reason for login failure. (Authenticate.Form.HideLoginFailReason. See Section 7.0 for more details) (176138)
Allow auxiliary classes on a template object to be inherited. (154760).
Display object name to be deleted in the confirmation message.
Fix display of read-only radio buttons. (159120).
Fix handling of multi-valued read-only string. Prevent editing in IE. (159118).
Add support for eDir 8.8.1 feature allowing different NDAP and LDAP IP addresses. (See Section 6.0 for more details) (183356).
Fix "shift-click" message truncation in Multi-Object Selector
The following issues were resolved in Maintenance Update 1:
Fix bug causing Object Class to display blank in the Other page.
Fix handling corrupted rank cookie.
Fix View Objects problem with Firefox 1.5.
Fix reset intruder detection counter when lockout is cleared for users.
Fix custom roles and tasks not being sorted in the "Roles and Tasks" view.
Fix web module update code to compare npm versions correctly so all updates appear.
Fix npm install message for Japanese.
Fix bug in DClient where connections build up and are not released.
Fix problem where login with expired password does not prompt for new password.
Fix long delay when setting a password that violates password policy.
The following files have been changed in this support Pack:
IMPORTANT:iManager support packs DO NOT make a backup of files replaced and therefore cannot be automatically uninstalled. If you want to be able roll back this change, you will need to manually backup the files replaced by this update. The list of files changed are:
IMPORTANT:iManager support packs do not make a backup of files replaced. The only way to roll back to a previous state is to backup all modified files before applying the support pack and then manually restoring the backed up files.
Also, iManager support packs must be installed on all iManager servers in your environment. Support packs do not automatically replicate to other iManager servers in your tree. To see if the support pack has been installed on the server, view the iManager information page by clicking on the words "Novell iManager" in the upper-left corner of the iManager application window.
NOTE:After you install the iManager support pack, iManager will be non-functional until you restart Tomcat. Do not install this support pack if you are unable to restart Tomcat at the same time.
To download and install an iManager support pack:
EXTRACT THE FILE
For Windows and Netware servers use a windows decompression utility that supports tgz, (i.e. WinZip) to extract iman26sp4.tgz to a temporary directory either on the workstation or on the server.
For Unix servers, use gzip and tar to decompress and extract the tarball to a temporary directory on which the patch will be applied. (i.e. gzip -d -c iman26sp4.tgz | tar xvf -). Linux users can use tar -zxvf iman26sp4.tgz.
NOTE:Support pack files, like plug-ins, are packaged in modules (NPMs). Those modules are capable of containing one or more support packs. This Support Pack is a cumulative patch and includes all fixes from previous Support Packs.
Log in to iManager.
Click the Configure button.
Click Plug-in Installation > Available Novell Plug-in Modules.
Click Add and browse to the sp_iman26.npm file, then click OK.
Verify that the Module is sp_iman26.npm and the Description reads "Support Pack 4 for iManager 2.6".
Select the checkbox next to the support pack file sp_iman26.npm and click Install.
This install may take a few minutes.
NOTE: Internet Explorer may append a .ZIP extension to the .NPM when it is downloaded. IE may actually remove the .npm extension and replaces it with .zip. The extension must be .npm or the install will refuse to upload the file.
Click Close and Restart Tomcat.
NOTE:Tomcat sometimes requires several minutes to fully initialize. Wait a few minutes before trying to log into iManager after restarting Tomcat.
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Verify that the new support pack has been installed.This can be done by checking the log file located in the webapps/nps/WEB-INF/changelog directory or by viewing the list located on the iManager information screen (click "Novell iManager" in the upper-left corner of the application window).
If you create a User with blank password, it fails. To
work around this issue, make sure the version of JClient is dated Feb
2007 or later. This is available in eDir 8.7.3 SP9 ftf3 or later
as well as eDirectory 8.8 SP2. To verify the version of
JClient.jar being used on NetWare, restart Tomcat using the steps above
and then log into iManager and then look at the logger screen for the
jclient version being used.
When trying to save XML data in a custom class which has an Octet String attribute XmlData, iManager reports that "The system encountered an unknown error. Please contact Novell Support". The attribute should be 'stream' instead of 'octet string'. The only problem you may run into the inability to delete the value of the attribute once it has been added. As a workaround, you can save the value as an empty string sunch as " " which essentially does the same thing. This will be fixed in a future release of iManager.
During the iManager installation on Solaris, the installer relies on the terminal emulator XTERM to start Apache. If XTERM is not loaded, you must start Apache manually following the iManager installation (/etc/init.d/imgr start).
If you are trying to download support pack 4 for iManager 2.6 from the Internet and iManager 2.6 Maintenance Update 1 is NOT installed, the iManager 2.6 Support Pack 4 plug-in will not show up as an update. It will only show up as a new plug-in. You must have the option to "Show every available Novell Plug-in Module (NPM)" checked on the Plug-in Download tab of the Configure iManager task under the iManager Server role on the Configuration page for Support Pack 4 to show.
After installing iManager 2.6 Support Pack 4 on Linux, Tomcat may crash while attempting to close and log out of iManager or it will display java exception errors during the shutdown of Tomcat. Since restarting Tomcat is a required step after installing the Support Pack, this does not affect the installation of the Support Pack and Tomcat will start up just fine afterwards and the Support Pack will be fully functional.
iManager 2.7 plug-ins are NOT backwards compatible with
iManager 2.6. If iManager 2.6 SP4 is installed, iManager will
prevent you from doing this. iManager 2.7 plug-ins have been
compiled for JAVA 1.5 and Tomcat 5, which are not supported in iManager
2.6.
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