Moving from Netware to Linux

Has anyone moved messenger from Netware to Linux?
I have Messenger installed on Netware 6.5. I am wanting to move Messenger to SLES 10 SP2.
Same NDS tree, just wanting to move servers.

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Can't create new users after GroupWise is moved from NetWare to Linux

Hi,
I moved GroupWise (Version 6.5 SP 6, single domain and single office)
from NetWare 6.5 server to SUSE Linux Enterprise server 9. It seems the
GroupWise server is running oaky. Existing users are able to connect
their mail box and send and receive messages. But I can't create new
users on the GroupWise server.
I used ConsoleOne installed on the Linux server to create new GroupWise
users. It seemed that I was able to do it. The new users appear on the
NDS and the GroupWise File IDs were assigned for these users. And I was
able to add these new users to distribution lists. But the users DB
files (userXXX.db) were not created under /grpwise/po/ofuser on the Linux
server and they cannot connect to the server. Old users cannot find them
in Novell GroupWise Address book.
Does anyone how to fix the problem?
Thanks in advance!
Jinkang

Hi,
[email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I moved GroupWise (Version 6.5 SP 6, single domain and single office)
> from NetWare 6.5 server to SUSE Linux Enterprise server 9. It seems the
> GroupWise server is running oaky. Existing users are able to connect
> their mail box and send and receive messages. But I can't create new
> users on the GroupWise server.
>
> I used ConsoleOne installed on the Linux server to create new GroupWise
> users. It seemed that I was able to do it. The new users appear on the
> NDS and the GroupWise File IDs were assigned for these users. And I was
> able to add these new users to distribution lists. But the users DB
> files (userXXX.db) were not created under /grpwise/po/ofuser on the Linux
> server and they cannot connect to the server. Old users cannot find them
> in Novell GroupWise Address book.
>
> Does anyone how to fix the problem?
This clearly sounds like your domain (which is the part of groupwise
which you admin against) doesn't/can't talk to the postoffice, so the
change you made (to the domain) does never get to the PO (which is where
the addressbook of your other users come from, and is what is
responsible for creating the user DB). This seems very likely to be
caused by your move not being done properly, and old information (either
path or IP address) for the PO still being in the domain and/or domain
database.
So how's the domain linked to the PO?
CU,
Massimo Rosen
Novell Product Support Forum Sysop
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http://www.cfc-it.de

Problem with junkmail folders after moving gwia from netware to linux

Recently moved our gwia that handles internet email from Netware to Sles
11 GW8.0.3 hp3. Email is moving in and out ok, but I'm getting some
really weird strangeness with Junkmail settings. Just like the old
gwia, this gwia has it's own domain/mta. Postoffices are under
different domains/mta's.
1. Email flagged with "x-spam-flag: yes" is no longer automatically
being moved to the junkmail folder. Yes the box is checked for this
particular's gwia settings, and I've even uncommented it in the gwia.cfg
file to to be sure it's enabled.
2. With the "view" column enabled in the client I can see that normal
email coming in gets set with the tag "internet" Email coming in with
"x-spam-flag: yes" in the header gets set with the tag "IPM.Novell.ND"
If I right click on one these to try to manually set it as junkmail, I
get a message that the message is "Not Eligible for Junk Mail Handling"
and when I click on that a window pops up saying "This is a POP message.
Only internet mail sent to your Groupwise account is eligible for Junk
Mail Handling"
For whatever reason instead of moving the email to the junkmail folder
when the x-spam-flag is set, it changes it to type IPM.Novell.ND and
then the client thinks that it's some sort of POP message instead of an
internet email. If I redirect incoming email back through the old
Netware gwia instead, everything works fine.
What could possibly be going on?

Originally Posted by Mike
Recently moved our gwia that handles internet email from Netware to Sles
11 GW8.0.3 hp3. Email is moving in and out ok, but I'm getting some
really weird strangeness with Junkmail settings. Just like the old
gwia, this gwia has it's own domain/mta. Postoffices are under
different domains/mta's.
Did you create a new Gateway ( gwia ) object? Or recycle the old one ( which is usually a huge no-no. ) I suspect you created a new one, as you refer to the old NetWare GWIA. But you never know.
Originally Posted by Mike
1. Email flagged with "x-spam-flag: yes" is no longer automatically
being moved to the junkmail folder. Yes the box is checked for this
particular's gwia settings, and I've even uncommented it in the gwia.cfg
file to to be sure it's enabled.
Its only enabled if the run-time config says it is. ;-) Look at the settings listed in the HTTP console for the GWIA or the GWIA logs, which dumps the settings actually being used. You may find the setting is not really effective. Check for differences between the two GWIAs effective config.... something may stick out.
In the message properties there is a junk mail handling section, can you give us an example of working / non-working versions?
Note also:
Support | Junk mail delivered to Inbox <-- buggy or unexpected behavior
and
Novell Doc: GroupWise 8 Administration Guide - Blocking Unwanted E-Mail from the Internet <-- xspam.cfg
-- Bob

Upgrade and migration from Netware to Linux best practice

Hi folks,
We've been running NSM 2.5 for a few years on Netware and have been very satisfied with the product and performance. We are planning to migrating to SLES11 with OES11 very soon to finally move away from Netware and I have some issues I can't seem to find answers to. Of course I want to use NSM to move my home directories from my Netware to my SLES so I want this working well when we migrate.
I've searched but not found a good resource to show how to move the NSM engine from a Netware server to a Linux server with best practices. Anyone have experience with this and any gottchas?
The other question is of course is to upgrade NSM to a new version before or after the move to Linux/OES11? We are at Ver 2.5.0.43 and want to move to the latest version. Upgrade procedure and best practices would be handy.
The last of course is NSM compatible with SLES/OES11? I presume it is and certainly hope so because we want to move all of our users to SLES11 NSS.

On 5/9/2012 11:06 AM, jlauzon wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> We've been running NSM 2.5 for a few years on Netware and have been
> very satisfied with the product and performance. We are planning to
> migrating to SLES11 with OES11 very soon to finally move away from
> Netware and I have some issues I can't seem to find answers to. Of
> course I want to use NSM to move my home directories from my Netware to
> my SLES so I want this working well when we migrate.
> I've searched but not found a good resource to show how to move the NSM
> engine from a Netware server to a Linux server with best practices.
> Anyone have experience with this and any gottchas?
The NSM 3.0.x Engine setup process actually handles the migration from
NSM 2.5 fairly easily. Our 3.0 Installation Guide (available at
http://www.novell.com/documentation/storagemanager3 ) includes all the
information you should need regarding migration, including the
suggestions I'll list here.
You'll want to leave NSM 2.5 running during the migration so that the
NSM 3.0 setup wizard can connect to that Engine and import its policies
and pending events. You'll also want to have as few pending events as
possible in NSM 2.5 -- deferred deletes are fine, but all pending events
will slow down the migration process, since they'll have to be
transferred over.
> The other question is of course is to upgrade NSM to a new version
> before or after the move to Linux/OES11? We are at Ver 2.5.0.43 and want
> to move to the latest version. Upgrade procedure and best practices
> would be handy.
Again, this information is available in the 3.0 Installation Guide. To
migrate from 2.5 to 3.0.x, you'll have to have at least one OES11 server
in your tree to install it on; but you'll also have to leave the NSM 2.5
Engine running on its Netware host long enough to migrate from it.
> The last of course is NSM compatible with SLES/OES11? I presume it is
> and certainly hope so because we want to move all of our users to SLES11
> NSS.
We are about to release version 3.0.4 of NSM, which provides full
support for OES11 on SLES11. The NFMS Support Team can also provide you
with builds of NSM 3.0.3 which support OES11; if you need those for
early testing, please send an email to storagemanager[at]novell[dot]com.
Hope this helps!
- NFMS Support Team

Migrating from Netware to Linux - faster "sync" ?

Hey all,
Planning on doing a TransferID migration from netware 6.5 to linux this weekend and have done some trial data copies.. Main copy is already done, but the "sync" is still taking a large number of hours that I need to try and fit into a smaller window. Any tips on getting sync to go faster? I'm currently using the miggui but wondering if you do the commands manually, leaving things out like displaying progress bar, etc.. if it'll get to it quicker.

Originally Posted by joebrug
Hey all,
Planning on doing a TransferID migration from netware 6.5 to linux this weekend and have done some trial data copies.. Main copy is already done, but the "sync" is still taking a large number of hours that I need to try and fit into a smaller window. Any tips on getting sync to go faster? I'm currently using the miggui but wondering if you do the commands manually, leaving things out like displaying progress bar, etc.. if it'll get to it quicker.
So, we have 6-year old HP DL-385 (no G, that's old they are) that are slower than you know what.
We're migrating to HP DL385 G6 or G7, but we're using VMware ESXi, so the target OES11 server is a Guest VM.
Both servers are on a gigabit switch.
We average approx. 15-20 GB/hour (it's not the AMOUNT of data, it's how many small files that affects things).
We're able to get the sync to fit in a small window (even our large ones, maybe 2-4 hours).
Is that not fast enough (although you may have LOTS more small files that change daily).
Basically we cart the server down, run the sync during the day until it finishes. Obviously it skips things that were in use. Then we kick everyone off the server at 3:00 and start the sync.
Since you're on NetWare to OES, I would NOT recommend rsync. The rsync on NetWare is very touchy/finicky and I don't think you can migrate trustees either.
From OES2 to OES11, you could use rsync, although I'm having mixed results with the trustees at the moment.
One thing we DO have is a "static" set of read-only data on the server, that we do NOT migrate over. We have a central office server that contains the "master" data and the clients run rsync to pull the data. So we don't even back it up either (other than the main office).
I can't remember the EXACT numbers we got when we did NetWare to OES2, but I still think we were averaging somewhere around 12-17GB/hour depending on. The key point was to make sure you were gigabit and didn't have a mis-match because someone in your datacom unit set the **** switch to 100-full or something other than auto-auto.
Oh, and if you have disk quotas, make sure that you either clear them or keep compression enabled. THAT will slow things down because if it tries to copy something, and there's not enough space, it'll retry like X times and then continue on and you find out like 10 hours later it was slow because you didn't have enough directory quota space.

Date Formating Issue (moved from Windows to LINUX)

Although the move shouldn't have been an issue, moved an OBIEE installation from Windows to LINUX (Windows is still up) and now have date problems with any drill down into the metrics (SC).
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Any Ideas?
Thanks
Scott

SCOTT, I suggest checking step-by-step.
a) check the value of the variable
b) check the value of cast(Dates."Start Date" as timestamp)
c) Check the results by substituting those 2 with someone else (regular integers)....
GL

Moving from 32 bit Linux to 64 bit Windows version on database standard edition

hi,
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if yes, can you give me more details on what it consists of?
thank you,
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977689 wrote:
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when migrating from 32 bit Linux to 64 bit Windows version on database standard edition, is there a server media needed?
if yes, can you give me more details on what it consists of?
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Poor performance after moving from hp to linux, oracle 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.3, filesystems to ASM

We moved a database from HP/UX to linux, upgraded oracle from 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.3, and from filesystems to ASM. The new server has 32 cores and 500gb of memory. the old server has less than half of that. Queries take twice as long to run on the new server as on the old server. We've tested to eliminate I/O as the issue by creating a local filesystem and creating the database there. The performance was still double over the old database. We also moved the database to a 3rd server, using ASM and 11.2.0.3 of oracle for testing to prove to the systems administrator that it wasn't a database problem. The performance on the 3rd server is incredibly fast. This points to something on the new server. Does anyone have any ideas of what to look at next, keeping in mind that we've tested the heck out of I/O.
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Well, a few details about your configuration could help:
What does /proc/meminfo on the server show?
How is the storage connected?
What does: "# /sbin/ifconfig -a" show?
Are you using ASMLIB or straight ASM?
Are you using multipath connections to storage? If so, make sure that "/etc/multipath.conf" actually identifies the composite device and not one of the physical paths.
Are there any entries in "/var/log/messages" while running the ASM testing?
I'm sure these questions will stimulate others.

Moving from windows to linux

I have a complete program that I put together using Borland's JBuilder. on a Windows PC. It runs flawlessly on this machine. I built it and created a .jar file. I loaded the jar file onto Linux computer that has a working java runtime environment. I attempt to run the .jar file and I keep getting java.lang.NoSuchMethodError. I'm not sure why I'm getting this error. The method in question is socket.isConnected(). Does anyone know anything about this?
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Hi
I believe you are using 1.4.x on Windows and the one in Linux is not 1.4.x :)
See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/Socket.html#isConnected()
This method is available in 1.4. Another good way of doing it is to add -showversion in your java startup options, so you always know which java runtime you are invoking. If you are convinced only ONE java is installed, just do a java -version and you will know which one is installed.
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Reconfiguring Hyperion after DB move from Solaris to Linux

Our Hyperion Databases are moving from Solaris to Linux. We need to reconfigure Hyperion EPM to point to the new Linux DB. We have 4 Hyperion servers A,B, C, D.
Server A : Foundation Services, Workspace ,Reporting & Analysis, Planning, Calc Manager, Shared Services, EAS, APS.
Server B : EPMA, Essbase studio
Server C: ODI, FDM
Server D: Essbase
We are planning to do the below steps :
1) Stop all Hyperion services .
2) Stop databases on Solaris servers.
2) Configure Foundation first on foundation services server ( server A) , using EPM system configurator.
3) Configure Foundation on the other 3 servers( B, C,D) which are having EPMA, FDM, Essbase etc.
4) Foundation- Deployment to applicaiton server in foundation services server ( Server A).
5) Configure/deploy DB for rest of the products.
We tried to do similar steps last time. We were able to do foundation but for other products it failed. Please let us know if these steps are correct?
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You should just need to follow the documentation:
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Can't convert case after moving a GW SAN volume from NetWare

I have am just about done migrating my GroupWise 8.0.3 systems from NetWare to OES Linux and have saved my largest PO for last. This is the only PO using a SAN volume. My plan is to just move the volume from the NetWare box the my new Linux (OES) server.
To test this process:
- I created a new SAN volume on my NetWare box and made a copy of the post office.
- I moved the volume to my new Linux server.
- I ran nssmu on the Linux box and did a F4 Refresh eDirectory for the pool and volume.
All good so far. The pool and volume are accessible. When I run a dbcopy -l /<path to postoffice> to convert to lower case I get the following:
[272] Failed to rename file /media/nss/RESTORE/ZOOPO.BAK/offiles/fd12/50FFFDB7.00G to /media/nss/RESTORE/ZOOPO.BAK/offiles/fd12/50fffdb7.00g Error=8201
If I try to manually rename one of the upper case files it also fails:
zoo-msg3:/media/nss/RESTORE/ZOOPO.BAK # mv WPHOST.DB wphost.db
mv: `WPHOST.DB and `wphost.db are the same file
So is it the case that you dont need to do a case conversion if the post office and/or domain are on NSS volumes?

MrSted <[email protected]> wrote:
> All good so far. The pool and volume are accessible. When I run a
> dbcopy -l /<path to postoffice> to convert to lower case I get the
> following:
>
In addition to what Massimo says about not really needing to rename the
files if you are on long namespace, the -l is a dangerous switch and
should rarely be used by a human.
http://www.caledonia.net/important-d...ercase-switch/
You actually ran it with the proper syntax. So you would not experience
data loss. But -l should be used with caution. And NEVER while the POA is
loaded. But it really should be run after the files are already the proper
case on the disk. Its real job is to make the guardian DB all lowercase and
only secondarily to attempt to rename files. I myself never use it to
attempt a file rename.
Personally I DO like to have the files all lowercase, even on NSS. You
never know when you need to pick up your data and stick it on a native
Linux volume. Search for chcase and there are a few windows utilities that
can do this for you. Just map a drive to the NSS volume. If you DO change
the case with a utility, then you can run the dbcopy -l but make sure the
POA is unloaded.
Danita - http://www.caledonia.net/register

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we are planning to upgrade from ebs 11.5.10.2 to r12.1 .3
My concern is since we will be moving from 32-bit to a 64-bit OS how will this impact our upgrade process?

Hi;
we are planning to upgrade from ebs 11.5.10.2 to r12.1 .3
My concern is since we will be moving from 32-bit to a 64-bit OS how will this impact our upgrade process?I assume your EBS single machine. EBS r11 is not certified wiht 64 bit OS.So you need to upgrade first than migrate it 64 bit
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Migration from Netware 6.x NSS to Solaris 10 ZFS

Hi,
I am looking at Solaris and ZFS as being the possible future of our file store for users.
We have around 3TB (40million files) of data to transfer to ZFS from Netware 6.5 NSS volumes.
What is the best way to do this?
I have tried running utilities like richcopy (son of robocopy) , teracopy, fastcopy from a Windows client mapped to the Netware server via NCP and the Solaris server via Samba.
In all tests the copy very quickly failed, rendering the Solaris server unusable. I imagine this has to do with the utilities expecting a destination NTFS filesystem, and ZFS combined with Samba does not fit the bill.
I have tried running the old rsync client from Netware, but this does not seem to talk to Solaris rsyncd.
As well as NCP, Netware has the ability to export its NSS volumes as a CIFS share.
I have tried mounting a CIFS share of the Netware volume on Solaris...but Solaris as far as I am aware does not support mount -t smbfs as this is Linux only. You can mount smb:// from the Gui (Nautilus), but this does not help a great deal. I was hoping to run maybe Midnight Commander, but I presume that I would need a valid smb share to the Netware volume from the command line?
I really want to avoid the idea of staging on say NTFS first, then from NTFS to ZFS. A two part copy would take forever. It needs to be direct.
BTW..I am not bothered about ACL's or quota. These can be backed up from Netware and reapplied with ZFS/chown/chmod commands.
A wild creative though did occur to me as follows -
Opensolaris, unlike Solaris, has its CIFS kernel addition, and hence smb mounts from the command line (I presume), but I am not happy running opensolaris in production.So maybe I could mount the Netware NSS volume as a CIFS share on opensolaris (as a staging server), copy all the data to a ZFS pool locally, and the do a send receive to Solaris 10.......
Maybe not...
I suppose there is FTP, if I can get it to work on Netware.
I really need a utility with full error checking, and that can be left unattended.
Any ideas?

Bu unusable I mean that the mapped ZFS Samba drive to the windows workstation died and was inaccessible.
Logging onto the solaris box after this from the console was almost impossible. There was a massive delay. When I did log in there appeared to be no network at all. There were no errors in the smbd log file. I need to look at other logs to find out what is going on. Looking at the ZFS filesystem some files had copied over before it died.
After rebooting the Solaris box I then tried dragging and dropping the same files to the ZFS filesystem with the native windows expolrer interface on the windows client. This worked, as in the Solaris box did not die and the files were copying happily (until I manually stopped it). As we all know Windows explorer is not a safe unattended way to copy large amounts of files.
This tells me that the copy utilities on Windows are the problem, not native windows copy/paste.

11.5.10 and move from 32-bit linux

Doing some moved from Physical to VM's and one of the moves is to our static 11i instance (used for reporting now).
My plan was to just use cold backup and restores (never setup rman) and then use rapid clone to fire it up on new servers using new host names.
Now I just realized the old servers were RHEL4 32-bit and the new servers were by default created on RH 5 64-bit.
I'm pretty sure I can't just fire it up on a 64-bit OS without doing some extra work like export/import on the database.
App server not sure what I would do as libraries etc. would be different also.
My thought is to get the servers rebuilt using RH5 32-bit and everything should work hopefully as long as packages are there.
Sound right or should I just go with what it runs on now (RHEL4) to be on the safe side.

Now I just realized the old servers were RHEL4 32-bit and the new servers were by default created on RH 5 64-bit.
I'm pretty sure I can't just fire it up on a 64-bit OS without doing some extra work like export/import on the database.
App server not sure what I would do as libraries etc. would be different also.The apps tier node of EBS 11i is not certified on 64-bit Linux OS -- Frequently Asked Questions: Oracle E-Business Suite Support on x86-64 [ID 343917.1]
My thought is to get the servers rebuilt using RH5 32-bit and everything should work hopefully as long as packages are there.
Sound right or should I just go with what it runs on now (RHEL4) to be on the safe side.What is your database version? Please note that Oracle9i is not certified on RHEL5, so if you are running on 10g/11g database you should be good to go with RHEL5
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