2.6 Deciding What Patterns to Install

A default OES installation has the following base technology, graphical environment, and primary function patterns selected for installation.

Table 2-4 Standard OES Installation Patterns

Pattern

Description

Base System

Consists of all packages that are common to all SUSE Linux Enterprise products. Also provides a Linux Standard Base compliant runtime environment.

This pattern is selected for installation by default.

IMPORTANT:You must either install this pattern or the Common Code Base pattern.

AppArmor

AppArmor is an open source Linux application security framework that provides mandatory access control for programs, protecting against the exploitation of software flaws and compromised systems. AppArmor includes everything you need to provide effective containment for programs (including those that run as root) to thwart attempted exploits and even zero-day attacks. AppArmor offers an advanced tool set that largely automates the development of per-program application security so that no new expertise is required.

This pattern is selected for installation by default.

GNOME Desktop Environment

The GNOME desktop environment is an intuitive and attractive desktop for users. The GNOME development platform is an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.

This pattern is selected for installation by default.

X Window System

In continuous use for over 20 years, the X Window System provides the only standard platform-independent networked graphical window system bridging the heterogeneous platforms in today's enterprise: from network servers to desktops, thin clients, laptops, and handhelds, independent of operating system and hardware.

This pattern is selected for installation by default.

Table 2-5 OES Services Pattern Descriptions

Pattern

Description

OES AFP

A OES AFP server allows Macintosh clients to access data stored on NSS volumes in the same way they access data on a Mac OS X server.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup / Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES Storage Services (NSS)

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

  • OES NCP Server

This pattern cannot be installed on the same server as these services:

  • OES Domain Services for Windows

OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

The OES backup infrastructure (called Storage Management Services or SMS) provides backup applications with the framework to develop a complete backup and restore solution.

SMS helps back up file systems (such as NSS) or application data (such as data from GroupWise) on NetWare and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) to removable tape media or other media for off-site storage. It provides a single consistent interface for all file systems and applications across NetWare and SLES.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

OES Business Continuity Cluster (BCC)

OES Business Continuity Cluster protects your key business systems against downtime and disaster. Built on OES Cluster Services and Open Enterprise Server, Business Continuity Cluster is the only product on the market that automates the configuration and management of a high-availability clustered-server solution.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup / Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • OES Cluster Services (NCS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

OES CIFS

CIFS (Common Internet File System) is a network sharing protocol. OES CIFS enables Windows, Linux, and UNIX client workstations to copy, delete, move, save, and open files on an OES server. CIFS allows read and write access from multiple client systems simultaneously.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup / Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES Storage Services (NSS)

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

  • OES NCP Server

This pattern cannot be installed on the same server as these services:

  • OES Domain Services for Windows

OES Cluster Services (NCS)

OES Cluster Services is a server clustering system that ensures high availability and manageability of critical network resources including data, applications, and services. It is a multinode clustering product for Linux that is enabled for NetIQ eDirectory and supports failover, failback, and migration (load balancing) of individually managed cluster resources.

OES Cluster Services lets you add Linux nodes to an existing NetWare 6.5 cluster without bringing down the cluster, or it lets you create an all-Linux cluster. With a mixed cluster, you can migrate services between OS kernels, and if services are alike on both platforms (such as NSS), you can set the services to fail over across platforms.

Using OES Cluster Services with iSCSI technologies included in OES, you can build inexpensive clustered SANs on commodity gigabit Ethernet hardware. You can leverage existing hardware into a high availability solution supporting Linux and NetWare clusters.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

This pattern cannot be installed on the same server with these services:

  • High Availability

OES DHCP

OES DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) uses eDirectory to provide configuration parameters to client computers and integrate them into a network.

The eDirectory integration lets you have centralized administration and management of DHCP servers across the enterprise and lets you set up DHCP subnet replication via NetIQ eDirectory.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

OES DNS

OES DNS uses NetIQ eDirectory to deliver information associated with domain names, in particular the IP address.

This eDirectory integration lets you have centralized administration and management of DNS servers across the enterprise and lets you set up a DNS zone via NetIQ eDirectory.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

OES Domain Services for Windows

OES Domain Services for Windows provides seamless cross-authentication capabilities between Windows/Active Directory and OES servers. It is a suite of integrated technologies that removes the need for the Client for Open Enterprise Server when logging on and accessing data from Windows workstations in eDirectory trees. This technology simplifies the management of users and workstations in mixed OES-Microsoft environments.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup / Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES DNS

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

This pattern cannot be installed on the same server as these services:

  • OES CIFS

  • OES AFP

  • OES FTP

  • OES NetStorage

  • OES Pre-Migration Server

NetIQ eDirectory

NetIQ eDirectory services are the foundation for the world's largest identity management, high-end directory service that allows businesses to manage identities and security access for employees, customers, and partners. More than just an LDAP data store, eDirectory is the identity foundation for managing the relationships that link your users and their access rights with corporate resources, devices, and security policies.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

This pattern cannot be installed on the same server as these services:

  • OpenLDAP

OES FTP

OES FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is integrated with NetIQ eDirectory so that users can securely transfer files to and from OES volumes.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

This pattern cannot be installed on the same server as these services:

  • OES Domain Services for Windows

NetIQ iManager

NetIQ iManager is a Web-based administration console that provides secure, customized access to network administration utilities and content from virtually anywhere you have access to the Internet and a Web browser.

iManager provides the following benefits:

  • Single point of administration for NetIQ eDirectory objects, schema, partitions, and replicas

  • Single point of administration for many other network resources

  • Management of many Novell products by using iManager plug-ins

  • Role-Based Services (RBS) for delegated administration

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

OES iPrint

OES iPrint lets employees, partners, and customers access printers from a variety of locations across the network and the Internet. From a web browser, users can easily install any printer on the network from any location.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

This pattern cannot be installed on the same server as these services:

  • CUPS

iPrint Advanced

iPrint Advanced service offers a single, scalable solution for managing all of your printing needs across multiple office locations from any device. It allows users to print from their smartphones, tablets, and any email-enabled devices. It lets the users print quickly, easily, and more securely.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES iPrint

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

This service requires the CUPS service, which will run on port 3017 instead of port 631.

OES Linux User Management (LUM)

OES User Management (LUM) enables eDirectory users to function as local POSIX users on Linux servers. This functionality lets administrators use eDirectory to centrally manage remote users for access to one or more OES servers.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

OES NCP Server / Dynamic Storage Technology

OES NCP Server for Linux enables support for login scripts, mapping drives to OES servers, and other services commonly associated with Client for Open Enterprise Server access. This means that Windows users with the Client for Open Enterprise Server installed can be seamlessly transitioned to file services on OES.

NCP Server includes OES Dynamic Storage Technology, which allows seldom-accessed files on NSS volumes to be automatically moved, according to policies set by the administrator, from faster-access storage to lower-cost storage media where the files can be more easily managed and backed up.

Services included with NCP (NetWare Core Protocol) are file access, file locking, security, tracking of resource allocation, event notification, synchronization with other servers, connection and communication, print services and queue management, and network management.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

OES NetStorage

OES NetStorage provides the solution for simple, Internet-based access to file storage. NetStorage is a bridge between a company's protected Novell storage network and the Internet. It lets users access files securely from any Internet location, with nothing to download or install on the user's workstation.

With OES NetStorage, a user can securely access files from any Internet-enabled machine. Users can copy, move, rename, delete, read, write, recover, and set trustee assignments (based on their privilege level) on files between a local workstation and a OES storage network. Access is available from any Internet-attached workstation, anywhere in the world. There is no need to email or copy data from one machine to another.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ iManager

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

This pattern cannot be installed on the same server as these services:

  • OES Domain Services for Windows

OES Pre-migration Server

A OES Pre-migration Server is not actually a service. Rather, it is a special-purpose server—the target of a Server ID Transfer Migration.

Selecting this option causes this server to be installed without an eDirectory replica, thus preparing it to assume the identity of another server that you plan to decommission. For more information, see the OES 2018 SP2: Migration Tool Administration Guide.

You should also select and install all the services that you plan to migrate from the other server. Services that are not installed on this server prior to the migration cannot be migrated.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup / Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory (without a replica)

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

This pattern cannot be installed on the same server as these services:

  • OES Domain Services for Windows

OES Remote Manager (NRM)

OES Remote Manager lets you securely access and manage one or more servers from any location through a standard Web browser. You can use OES Remote Manager to monitor your server's health, change the configuration of your server, or perform diagnostic and debugging tasks.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

OES Storage Services (NSS)

The OES Storage Services (NSS) file system provides many unique and powerful file system capabilities. It is especially suited for managing file services for thousands of users in an organization. It also includes OES Distributed File Services for NSS volumes.

Unique features include visibility, trustee access control model, multiple simultaneous namespace support, native Unicode, user and directory quotas, rich file attributes, multiple data stream support, event file lists, and a file salvage subsystem.

NSS volumes are cross-compatible between kernels. You can mount a non-encrypted NSS data volume on either the Linux or NetWare kernel and move it between them. In a clustered SAN, volumes can fail over between kernels, allowing for full data and file system feature preservation when migrating data to Linux.

This pattern selects and installs these services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES NCP Server

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

This pattern cannot be installed on the same server as these services:

  • Xen Virtual Machine Host Server

OES Storage Service AD Support

Beginning with OES 2015, you can join the OES server to an Active Directory domain to provide seamless access to the Active Directory identities on the NSS resources. Thereby, the Active Directory users can natively access the NSS resources, administer them, and provision rights and quotas for Active Directory trustees. This solution is termed as OES Storage Services Active Directory (NSS AD) Support.

This pattern selects and installs the following services:

  • OES CIFS

  • OES Storage Services (NSS)

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES NCP Server

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

This pattern cannot be installed on the same server as these services:

  • OES Domain Services for Windows

Cloud Integrated Storage (CIS)

Cloud Integrated Storage is a hybrid cloud solution that provides a secure gateway to store, manage, and access data across private or public cloud.

This pattern selects and installs the following services:

  • OES Backup/Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • NetIQ eDirectory

  • OES Linux User Management (LUM)

  • OES Remote Manager (NRM)

If you want to install these services, you can select them to install with most other patterns during the initial server installation by customizing the installation or you can install them after installing your initial Open Enterprise Server. For more information, see Customizing the Software Selections and Installing or Configuring OES Services on an Existing OES 2018 SP2 Server.