This section describes enhancements to the installation program for Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) 2015.
To install OES 2015 or later, the minimum RAM memory required is 2GB. For more information, see Server Hardware Requirements.
The NSS file system, directory service (eDirectory), and file access protocols require additional memory to ensure the better I/O performance. For more information on NSS using the memory, see Understanding How NSS Uses Cache in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.
Installing: Beginning with OES 2015, the Novell Storage Services AD (NSS AD) Support service can be installed and configured using the YaST installation.
Upgrading: When upgrading a server to OES 2015, adding NSS AD support is a post-upgrade activity.
Management Utility Availability: When you select the Novell Storage Services AD Support pattern, the following utilities are made available through the server’s welcome pages:
Novell User Rights Map (NURM)
Novell File Access Rights Management (NFARM)
For more information, see Installing and Configuring NSS Active Directory Support
in the OES 2015 SP1: Installation Guide .
Beginning with OES 2015, you can use DNS host names in addition to using IP addresses when installing and configuring OES services.
If a short DNS host name is used while connecting to an existing tree, ensure that you create a server certificate with the short DNS host name. If the server certificate is not created with short DNS host names, all LDAP-related operations will fail.
For more information on creating the server certificate, see Server Certificate Object Tasks
in the NetIQ Certificate Server Administration Guide.
OES upgrade operations use the configuration information in /etc/sysconfig/novell. If you modify an OES service outside of YaST, the configuration information gets out of sync. In past OES releases, this caused problems for administrators performing upgrades..
OES 2015 includes a new upgrade script (oes_upgrade_check.pl) for synchronizing individual OES service configuration information with /etc/sysconfig/novell.
For more information, see Synchronizing the OES Configuration Information before Starting an Upgrade
in the OES 2015 SP1: Installation Guide.