OES 11 SP3: Planning and Implementation Guide

Purpose

This guide provides:

  • Planning and implementation instructions

  • Service overviews

  • Links to detailed information in other service-specific guides.

Audience

This guide is designed to help network administrators

  • Understand Open Enterprise Server 11 SP3 services prior to installing them.

  • Make pre-installation planning decisions.

  • Understand installation options for each platform.

  • Implement the services after they are installed.

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Documentation Updates

Changes to this guide are summarized in a Documentation Updates appendix at the end of this guide. The lack of such an appendix indicates that no changes have been made since the initial product release.

Additional Documentation

The OES 11 SP2: Getting Started with OES 11 and Virtualized NetWare is the hands-on counterpart to this guide and helps network administrators:

  • Set up a basic lab with an OES 11 SP3 server, a virtualized NetWare server, a test tree, and user objects that represent the different types of users in OES 11 SP3.

  • Use the exercises in the guide to explore how OES 11 SP3 services work.

  • Continue exploring to gain a sound understanding of how OES 11 SP3 can benefit their organization.

Additional documentation is also found on the OES 11 Documentation Web site.

Documentation Conventions

The terms OES 11 and OES 11 SP3 are used in this guide. A support pack is mentioned to differentiate something that is new or changed in that support pack release of OES 11. All statements that refer to OES 11 also apply to the latest OES 11 support pack unless otherwise indicated.

In this documentation, a greater-than symbol (>) is used to separate actions within a step and items within a cross-reference path.