Messenger System Requirements

Before installing Novell Messenger, make sure that your system meets the following server installation requirements:

• Messenger Server Requirements
• Novell eDirectory Requirements
• ConsoleOne Requirements
• Installation User Rights Requirements

Messenger Server Requirements

• Any of the following server operating systems:
  • NetWare^® 5.1 with Support Pack 4 or later, NetWare 6.0 with Support Pack 1 or later, NetWare 5.1 with Novell Cluster Services^TM Support Pack 3 or later, or NetWare 6 with Novell Cluster Services Support Pack 1 or later
  • SUSE^® Standard Server 8, SUSE Enterprise Server 8, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 3 ES, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
  • Windows NT* 4 Server (viable but unsupported), Windows 2000 Server with Support Pack 2 or later, or Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Support Pack 3 and Microsoft* Clustering Service

The Messenger agents are highly scalable. If you are setting up a large Messenger system, you would want to run the Messaging Agent on a dedicated server with a processor speed of 1-2 GHz and with 1 GB of RAM. The Messaging Agent has been tested to easily support 1000 active conversations on such hardware. If you assume that 2% of Messenger users might be conversing simultaneously, you could plan on your Messenger system including as many as 50,000 users. Although Messenger has not been tested with this many actual users, you can be confident that it can scale to meet the needs of a very large number of users.

Novell eDirectory Requirements

If you want the Messenger agents to use direct access to NDS^®/Novell eDirectory^TM, NDS or eDirectory must be installed on the NetWare or Linux server where you install the Messenger agents, or, for the Windows Messenger agents, you must provide the IP address of a server where an NDS/eDirectory replica is located.

If you want the Messenger agents to use LDAP to access NDS/eDirectory, NDS or eDirectory does not need to be installed on the same server with the Messenger agents, but your LDAP server does need to be running against NDS/eDirectory.

• You can use any of the following versions:
  • NDS version 8.78 or later for a NetWare server
  • eDirectory 8.6.2 or later for NetWare and Linux servers

    GroupWise 6.5 for Linux includes eDirectory 8.7.3 for Solaris*, Linux, and AIX*

ConsoleOne Requirements

• You must use ConsoleOne^® 1.3.6 or later for Linux, or ConsoleOne 1.3.4 or later for Windows to administer your Messenger system. See ConsoleOne for more information.

Installation User Rights Requirements

• You must have the following rights when you run the Messenger Installation program:
  • Supervisor rights at the root of the tree to extend the eDirectory schema
  • Read and Create rights in any containers where Messenger objects will be created
  • File, Super user, or Administrator rights (depending on the operating system) to the server or workstation where the Messenger snap-in to ConsoleOne and the Messenger agents will be installed

• Additionally, if you run the Messenger Windows Installation program from a Windows workstation, the following is required:
  • Access to the eDirectory tree
  • Windows 2000 workstation or Windows NT 4 workstation
  • Novell Client^TM