Before you run the Server Consolidation Utility, you must prepare the source and destination servers by completing these steps.
Ensure that all source and destination servers are running supported versions of NetWare or Windows server software.
See Types of Server Consolidation Projects for more information on supported server operating system versions.
Apply the latest NetWare Support Packs on both source and destination NetWare servers.
Updates are available for specific NetWare versions at the Consolidated Support Pack home page.
Set the same code page for both the source and destination NetWare servers.
IMPORTANT: If both servers don't have the same code page, data will be lost during the consolidation. For instructions on changing your server's codepage, see Changing the Server's Code Page.
As a precaution, you should have a current backup of all data on the source servers.
You should also back up the eDirectory information on the source servers.
For information on creating a backup of eDirectory, see Backing Up and Restoring Novell eDirectory in the Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 Administration Guide.
For NetWare/eDirectory consolidations, load the latest Storage Management ServicesTM (SMS) Storage Management Data Requestor (smdr.nlm) and Target Service Agent (tsafs.nlm) modules on your source and destination servers.
These SMS modules are provided with the NetWare operating system software. To load the modules, type load smdr and load tsafs at the server console.
Depending on how you have set up service discovery on your network, you might need to add the source server's IP address, DNS name, and localhost name to the sys:/etc/hosts file on the destination server, and vice versa.
See Troubleshooting the Server Consolidation Utility for help in resolving server communication problems.
If you are planning to copy data from NetWare 4 source servers, complete these steps in addition to the ones in the previous section.
The source and destination servers must see each other via IPX.
For information on verifying IPX communication between servers, see the troubleshooting section's Errors When Connecting to a NetWare 4 Server.
Install long name space support on each volume containing data to be copied.
To add long name space support to a NetWare 4.10 volume, enter at the server console LOAD OS2.NAM and then ADD NAME SPACE OS2 volume_name Replace volume_name with the name of the NetWare 4.10 volume.
To add long name space support to a NetWare 4.11 or 4.2 volume, enter at the server console LOAD LONG.NAM and then ADD NAME SPACE LONG volume_name Replace volume_name with the name of the NetWare 4.11 or 4.2 volume.
If you plan to copy compressed data from a NetWare 4 source server, enter the following command at the server console prompt:
SET Convert Compressed to Uncompressed Option=0
Setting this parameter to 0 leaves compressed files compressed when they are accessed. This prevents compressed files from uncompressing and taking up all of your destination server's disk space when they are accessed. (Setting the option to 1 changes compressed files to uncompressed on second access, and setting the option to 2 always changes compressed files to the uncompressed version.)
To view your server's current Convert Compressed to Uncompressed Option SET parameter, execute the SET command at the server console prompt, select the File System category, and page through the information until you see Convert Compressed to Uncompressed Option.