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System Requirements

The following are requirements for eDirectory™ 8.8 SP5. For system requirements (including hardware) of other service packs, see documentation.

NetWare

  • You can upgrade to eDirectory 8.8 on the following versions of NetWare®:
    • OES2 Netware 6.5 SP7 or SP8
  • Administrative rights to the eDirectory tree so that you can modify the schema.

Windows

  • 32-bit eDirectory supported platform
    • Windows* 2003 Enterprise Server SP2
    • 32-bit Windows 2008 Server (Standard/Enterprise/Data Center Edition)
  • 64-bit eDirectory supported platform
    • 64-bit Windows 2008 Server (Standard/Enterprise/Data Center Edition)
    • Windows 2008 R2 Server (Standard/Enterprise/Data Center Edition)
  • An assigned IP address
  • Administrative rights to the Windows server and to all portions of the eDirectory tree that contain domain-enabled User objects. For an installation into an existing tree, you need administrative rights to the Tree object so that you can extend the schema and create objects.

Linux

Software

  • 32-bit eDirectory supported platform
    • 32-bit
      • SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
      • SLES 10 SP1 and SP2
      • SLES 10 SP1 and SP2 XEN
      • OES2 SP1 Linux
      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5**
      • RHEL 5** AP
      • RHEL 5** AP Virtualization
      • ** Latest service pack
    • 64-bit
      • SLES 11
      • SLES 10 SP1 and SP2
      • SLES 10 SP1 and SP2 XEN
      • IMPORTANT :eDirectory 8.8 SP5 is supported on the SLES 10 XEN* virtualization service that runs the SLES 10 guest OS. The updates are available at https://update.novell.com.
      • To determine the version of SUSE Linux you are running, see the /etc/SuSE-release file.
      • RHEL 5**
      • RHEL 5** AP
      • RHEL 5** AP Virtualization
      • Latest glibc patches from Red Hat Errata on Red Hat systems. The minimum required version of the glibc library is version 2.1.
        ** Latest service pack
  • 64-bit eDirectory Supported Platform
    • SLES 11 64-bit
    • SLES 10 SP1 64-bit
    • SLES 10 SP2 64-bit
    • OES2 SP1 Linux
    • RHEL 5**
    • RHEL 5** AP
    • RHEL 5** AP Virtualization
      ** Latest service pack
    • net-snmp-32-bit RPM should be installed on 64-bit SLES or OES Linux
  • gettext. To install gettext, search the rpmfind Web site for gettext.
  • Ensure that the supported version of SSP is installed on eDirectory 873SPx before upgrading to eDirectory 8.8 SP5.
    • For eDirectory 873 SP9, ensure that SSP 203 is installed.
    • For eDirectory 873 SP10, ensure that SSP 206 is installed.
  • Usage of eDirectory 8.8 SP5 with Firewall Enabled
    • On a SLES platform : While adding eDirectory 8.8 SP5 server from a SLES host to an existing tree running on different host, the process might fail to add the server if the firewall is enabled.
    • Enable SLP services and an NCP port (the default is 524) in the firewall to allow the secondary server addition.
    • On a RHEL platform: On a RHEL system, while adding a secondary server to an eDirectory tree, ndsconfig hangs during schema synchronization. However, you can add it if you open the port 524 in the firewall.

Hardware

  • A minimum of 512 MB RAM for eDirectory
  • 162 MB of disk space for the eDirectory server
  • 30 MB of disk space for the eDirectory administration utilities
  • 150 MB of disk space for every 50,000 users

Solaris

Software

  • 32-bit eDirectory supported platform
    • Solaris* 9
    • Solaris 10
  • 64-bit eDirectory supported platform
    • Solaris 10
    • Solaris 10 Zones (Small Zone and Big Zone)
  • All latest recommended patches available on the SunSolve Web page. If you do not update your system with the latest patches before installing eDirectory, you might have problems while installing and configuring eDirectory.

Hardware

  • A minimum of 512 MB RAM
  • 184 MB of disk space for the eDirectory server
  • 43 MB of disk space for the eDirectory administration utilities
  • 150 MB of disk space for every 50,000 users

AIX

Sofware

  • AIX* 5L Version 5.3
  • All recommended AIX OS patches, available at the IBM* Tech Support Web site Web site

Hardware

  • A minimum of 512 MB RAM
  • 215 MB of disk space for the eDirectory server
  • 38 MB of disk space for the eDirectory administration utilities
  • 150 MB of disk space for every 50,000 users

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