Novell Business Continuity
Clustering 1.1 SP1 Readme
September 21, 2010
Novell®
This Readme applies to Novell® Business Continuity Clustering (BCC) 1.1 Support Pack (SP) 1 for
Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) 1 SP2 Linux and for NetWare 6.5 SP5 or SP6.
1 Downloading BCC 1.1 SP1
To download BCC 1.1 SP1, go to The Novell Business Continuity Clustering download site (http://
download.novell.com/Download?buildid=bdkmSxRgKVk~).
2 Documentation
For information on Business Continuity Clustering 1.1 SP1 for OES 1 SP2 Linux and for NetWare
6.5 SP5/SP6, see the BCC Documentation Web site (http://www.novell.com/documentation/bcc/).
3 Installation Issues
Section 3.1, “Pre-Installation Patches for Linux,” on page 1
Section 3.2, “Pre-Installation Patches for NetWare,” on page 1
Section 3.3, “Update the iManager Cluster Plug-in ,” on page 2
Section 3.4, “Software Dependency Conflicts on Linux,” on page 4
Section 3.5, “Drive Mappings to NetWare Mapped Volumes Missing After Install,” on page 4
Section 3.6, “Limited Support for Mixed NetWare and Linux Clusters,” on page 4
Section 3.7, “Do Not Mix IDM Versions,” on page 5
3.1 Pre-Installation Patches for Linux
The latest OES Linux patches from the patch channel are required prior to installing BCC 1.1. For
instructions on updating OES Linux with the latest patches, see Patching an OES Linux Server
(http://www.novell.com/documentation/oes/install_linux/data/bxlu3xc.html) in the OES Linux
Installation Guide.
For more information on applying patches using the YaST online update or Red Carpet, see the
Novell Linux Registration and Updates page (http://support.novell.com/linux/registration/).
3.2 Pre-Installation Patches for NetWare
The following OES NetWare patches are required prior to installing BCC1.1:
The NetWare 6.5 post Support Pack 5 Update. See OES SP2, NW6.5 SP5 Update 1: TID #
2974185 (http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/2974185.html).
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This patch is required only for NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5. If you have upgraded to NetWare
6.5 Support Pack 6, this patch is not required.
The nwcs18pt3 or later cluster patch. See Netware Cluster Services Field Test: TID # 2974985
(http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2974985.htm).
This patch can be applied only to NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5. If you have upgraded to
NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 6, this patch is not required.
LIBC (libcsp6X or later) See LIBC Update NetWare 6.5 SP6 9.00.05: TID # 5003460 (https://
innerweb.novell.com/docs/iReadmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5003460.html).
OpenWBEM. See CIMOM Update for NetWare 6.5 SP6: TID # 5004180 (http://
support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5004180.html).
3.3 Update the iManager Cluster Plug-in
You must remove the existing iManager plug-in for Novell Cluster Services and replace it with the
plug-in that is on the Novell download Web site (http://download.novell.com/). Updating the
iManager plug-in for cluster services resolves sporadic iManager problems specific to Novell
Cluster Services.
To remove the old plug-in, start iManager and then perform the following steps:
1 Click the Configure button, then click Module Installation.
2 Click Installed Novell Plug-in Modules, th en sele ct Cluster Services.
IMPORTANT: If you have installed the iManager plug-in for Archive and Versioning
Services, you must remove it. If you have installed the Storage Management plug-in
nssmgmt.npm
(
) and/or the Shared Storage plug-in (
storagemgmt.npm
), you must remove and
resinstall them.
Select these additional plug-ins to remove them.
3 Click Uninstall to remove the selected plug-ins.
4 Sometimes the plug-ins may not be correctly removed. To ensure that the plug-ins are removed,
complete the following steps for iManager on either NetWare or Linux as indicated:
4a Go to the
the
sys:\tomcat\4\webapps\nps\portal\modules
/var/opt/novell/tomcat4/webapps/nps/portal/modules
directory on NetWare, or
directory on Linux,
and ensure the following folders are no longer present. If the folders are present, delete
them.
ark
nss
ncs
storage
4b Go to the
opt/novell/tomcat4/webapps/nps/WEB-INF
sys:\tomcat\4\webapps\nps\WEB-INF
directory on Linux, and ensure the
directory on NetWare, or the /
var/
following files are no longer pres ent. If the files are present, delete them.
ark.tld
ncs.tld
nss.tld
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4c Go to the sys:\tomcat\4\webapps\nps\WEB-INF\modules directory on NetWare, or the /
var/opt/novell/tomcat4/webapps/nps/WEB-INF/modules directory on Linux, and ensure
the following folders are no longer present. If the files are present, delete them.
ark
ncs
nsmgmt
storage
4d Go to the
var/opt/novell/tomcat4/webapps/nps/WEB-INF/lib
sys:\tomcat\4\webapps\nps\WEB-INF\lib
directory on NetWare, or the
directory on Linux, and
ensure that the following folders are no longer present. If the folders are present, delete
them. (The * character used here is a wildcard character used to represent additional
characters in the filename, and is not actually part of the filename.)
ark*.jar
ncs*.jar
nss*.jar
/
4e Go to the
opt/novell/tomcat4/webapps/nps/packages
sys:\tomcat\4\webapps\nps\packages
directory on Linux, and ensure the
directory on NetWare, or the
following files are no longer pres ent. If the files are present, delete them.
arkmgmt.npm
nssmgmt.npm
ncsmgmt.npm
storagemgmt.npm
4f Go to the
directory on NetWare, or the
localhost/nps/portal/modules
SYS:\tomcat\4\work\STANDALONE\LOCALHOST\NPS\portal\modules
/var/opt/novell/tomcat4/work/Standalone/
directory on Linux, and ensure that the following
folders are no longer present. If the folders are present, de lete them.
ark
nss
ncs
storage
4g Go to the
the
sys:\tomcat\4\webapps\nps\UninstallerData
/var/opt/novell/tomcat4/webapps/nps/UninstallerData
directory on NetWare, or
directory on Linux,
and ensure that the following folders are no longer present. If the folders are present,
delete them.
Uninstall_nssmgmt
Uninstall_ncsmgmt
/var/
Uninstall_arkmgmt
Uninstall_storagemgmt
Uninstall_nssmgmtjar
Uninstall_ncsmgmtjar
Uninstall_arkmgmtjar
Uninstall_storagemgmtjar
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