Migrating iDS 5.1 to iDS 5.2 with iMS 5.2 on Solaris 8

Question

Hi,
Have been trying to upgrade our iDS 5.1 directory server to
iDS 5.2 with the iMS 5.2 messaging server. Have been able to migrate all the user email accounts from iDS 5.1 to iDS 5.2 successfully but can't seem to move the iMS messaging server configs from iDS 5.1 to iDS 5.2.
When I start up the iDS 5.2 slapd daemon while the iMS messaging server daemons are running, one can login and use the email user accounts. So this tells me that the user accounts have been migrated successfully. But when I shutdown the iMS messaging server daemons and try to restart, it aborts with an error message about not finding it's config in the iDS 5.2 directory.
To get the iMS 5.2 messaging server running again, I take down the iDS 5.2 daemon and run the iDS 5.1 daemon then the messaging server restarts. I can then take down iDS 5.1 and start up iDS 5.2. As long as I don't restart the messaging server daemons everything works fine with the iDS 5.2.
Seems to me the messaging server config is missing in the new iDS 5.2 directory. How does one migrate it from the iDS 5.1 to the new iDS 5.2 server?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
jeff
Hawaii Dept of Education

Answer 1

Jeff,
I just did a similar upgrade on Sol 9. I was about to try your method until I realized that I'd have to figure out the "o=NetscapeRoot" tree. That is where the config data is stored. What I did was this:
Assuming DS5.1, DS5.2 and ims5.2 are runnging on the same box
Shutdown iMS
1. Backup your LDAP, db2bak and ldif formats. Back-up your
iMS config directories.
3. Unmount your message store partitions, you put your mailstore on a different partition, right? It can be in the default path but a different disk partition.
4. Uninstall iDA, iws (for iDA), and iMS. In that order.
5. change the DS5.1 port to something other than 389.
6. Install iDS5.2 and run the ims_dssetup.pl script.
7. Install iMS, iWS (for IDA) and iDA.
8. Start iMS. Run configutil to add your non-default mail partitions.
9. Add user ldif and o=pab ldif from an ldif dump
10. Shutdown iMS and remove anything under your store directory.
11. Remount your mailstore partitions.
12. Restart iMS. Reconfigure iMS and the MTA using info from
step 1. Don't bllindly copy everything over. That could cause problems. I did a diff -w -r old_config new_config and went line-by-line.
13. Do an imsmta cnbuild and restart iMS.
14 All is well. :-)
BTW, if you're running Sun Cluster 3.1. You'll need the HA packages from package install distrobution of iDS5.2. Those HA packages are not shipped with the tarball distrobution.
Roger S.
http://www.confrere-tech.com/ (shameless plug :-))