1.9 How do I upgrade the existing Novell BorderManager 3.8 servers to the latest version?

First, upgrade the master VPN server and then, upgrade the other VPN servers.

Figure 1-4 Upgrading existing servers

To deploy, ensure that the minimum requirements to install Novell BorderManager 3.9 are met.

For the minimum requirements, see System Requirements in the Novell BorderManager 3.9 Installation Guide.

  1. Complete the installation by choosing to install VPN and other components that you want to install.

  2. Run VPNCFG on the Novell BorderManager 3.9 machine.

  3. If the client-to-site and site-to-site services are enabled before the upgrade, enable authentication rule for the pre-shared key method of authentication for the new VPN client-to-site object.

    For client-to-site, install all the keys again with all the slaves. Add the members configuration using NWAdmin.

Testing your Configuration

Do the following to test your configuration:

  1. After the configuration is complete, ping the slave servers from the master. It should ping with both the tunnel and server IP address.

  2. Establish a client-to-site connection in the backward compatibility mode to the Novell BorderManager 3.9 server. The login should now be successful and the tunnel should now be established.