Netware 65sp7-edir8.8sp-GW8.0.2-91781 crashs now and then

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The abend.log says something about cpu 0 (Thread .....) is on a NO SLEEP state or Address (0xF3AFF2AE) exceeds valid memory limit.
Here is short version of our ABEND.log
Novell Open Enterprise Server, NetWare 6.5
PVER: 6.50.07
Address space GWDVAW.1 removed Friday, 14 January 2011 13:40:01,977
Abend 0 on P00: Server-5.70.07: Page Fault Processor Exception (Error code 00000004)
Registers:
CS = 001B DS = 0023 ES = 0023 FS = 0023 GS = 0023 SS = 0023
EAX = F3AFF2AE EBX = 00000000 ECX = C193B790 EDX = F50EC03E
ESI = F3A463BC EDI = C193BAD8 EBP = C193BA24 ESP = C193B9BC
EIP = F3AFF2AE FLAGS = 00010282
Address (0xF3AFF2AE) exceeds valid memory limit
EIP in UNKNOWN memory area
Access Location: 0xF3AFF2AE
The violation occurred while processing the following instruction:
Running process: Server 00:56 Process
Thread Owned by NLM: SERVER.NLM
Stack pointer: C193B9BC
User Space Stack limit: 0
Scheduling priority: 67371008
Wait state: 50500F0 Waiting for work
Stack: F3DF61B2 (SCCUT.NLM|UTGetString+299)
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
--C17A2168 ?
--C17A20C0 ?
--01000000 (SCSIHD.CDM|__NLM_BSS_End+1A40)
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
Additional Information:
The CPU encountered a problem executing code in SERVER.NLM. The problem may be in that module or in data passed to that module by a process owned by SERVER.NLM.
Loaded Modules:
EXGDSF.NLM OutsideIn Viewer Technology by Oracle. HTML Export Module
Version 8.32 6 December 2009
Code Address: F3A3E000h Length: 000005C0h
Data Address: F3A3C000h Length: 00000260h
SCCIMG.NLM HTML Export Export Interface Module
Version 8.32 6 December 2009
Code Address: F3A48000h Length: 00025250h
Data Address: F3A40000h Length: 00006C20h
VSTEXT.NLM OutsideIn Viewer Technology by Oracle. TEXT Filter
Version 8.32 6 December 2009
Code Address: F3A71000h Length: 00003CB0h
Data Address: F3A6F000h Length: 00000CD0h
Novell Open Enterprise Server, NetWare 6.5
PVER: 6.50.07
Server FS03 halted Wednesday, 19 January 2011 22:26:47,173
Abend 1 on P00: Server-5.70.07: Page Fault Processor Exception (Error code 00000000)
Registers:
CS = 0008 DS = 0010 ES = 0010 FS = 0023 GS = 0023 SS = 0010
EAX = 9FE60120 EBX = 004FFFF4 ECX = 00000016 EDX = 00000000
ESI = AC3875C0 EDI = A9CEAAA0 EBP = FFFFFFFF ESP = B2D2CA18
EIP = 00229C3F FLAGS = 00010046
00229C3F 8B7F3C MOV EDI, [EDI+3C]=?
EIP in SERVER.NLM at code start +000292DFh
Access Location: 0xA9CEAADC
The violation occurred while processing the following instruction:
00229C3F 8B7F3C MOV EDI, [EDI+3C]
00229C42 83C708 ADD EDI, 00000008
00229C45 8A157B970100 MOV DL, [LOADER.NLM|BootEnv]=01
00229C4B 8B6FFC MOV EBP, [EDI-04]
00229C4E 84D2 TEST DL, DL
00229C50 742E JZ 00229C80
00229C52 4D DEC EBP
00229C53 83FDFF CMP EBP, FFFFFFFF
00229C56 0F8444010000 JZ 00229DA0
00229C5C 833D9097010000 CMP [LOADER.NLM|PAEEnabled]=00000001, 00000000
Running process: Server 00:26 Process
Thread Owned by NLM: SERVER.NLM
Stack pointer: B2D2CA40
OS Stack limit: B2D26000
CPU 0 (Thread 9FE6D480) is in a NO SLEEP state
Scheduling priority: 67371008
Wait state: 5050010 Blocked on a Mutex
Stack: --00010001 ?
003610EA (SERVER.NLM|DirectCallPollProcedures+A)
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
0020761C (SERVER.NLM|CallRegisteredPollingRoutines+44)
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
--9FE6D480 ?
--AC3875C0 ?
-004FFFF4 (SERVER.NLM|OSAS+0)
003608D6 (SERVER.NLM|ThreadContextSwitch+126)
--A9CEAAA0 ?
002181AD (SERVER.NLM|SchedSwitch+2A9)
--FE004260 (LOADER.NLM|OSAllocMemory+4260)
--FE004258 (LOADER.NLM|OSAllocMemory+4258)
--00000206 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+206)
--FE004240 (LOADER.NLM|OSAllocMemory+4240)
00205DFC (SERVER.NLM|kMutexLock+1AC)
--FE004264 (LOADER.NLM|OSAllocMemory+4264)
--FE0042C0 (LOADER.NLM|OSAllocMemory+42C0)
--AA9336C0 ?
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
--9FE6D480 ?
--A9CEAAA0 ?
0029F1BE (SERVER.NLM|UnloadLoadedFile+4C6)
--FE004240 (LOADER.NLM|OSAllocMemory+4240)
002B0904 (SERVER.NLM|GetNLMNames+48)
--B2D2CA98 ?
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
A9FFEF57 (NIRMAN.NLM|NLMUnloading+43)
--B2D2CA99 ?
-AC2CA224 (NIRMAN.NLM|(Data Start)+1224)
--0000000A (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+A)
--43435309 ?
--00000246 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+246)
--00000246 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+246)
--00000001 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+1)
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
--00000246 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+246)
--00000246 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+246)
002949E0 (SERVER.NLM|GenericEventOutput+0)
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
--AA9336C0 ?
--00000006 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+6)
--A9CEAAF0 ?
--A9CEAAA0 ?
0022AE55 (SERVER.NLM|ChangeAddressSpace+89)
--A9CEAAA0 ?
--AA9336C0 ?
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
--B2D2CAF2 ?
--A9CEAAA0 ?
002C3C21 (SERVER.NLM|UnloadModule+981)
--AA9336C0 ?
--43435309 ?
--4E2E5845 ?
-8FB04D4C (DS.NLM|DSRevisionName+506)
--00000004 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+4)
--00060034 ?
--FF020031 ?
--FF03002D ?
--02730574 ?
--B1C8A000 ?
--B2D2CB20 ?
--B2D2CB4C ?
--B2D2CB24 ?
89EC7ACC (COMN.NSS|COMN_ReleaseInternal+C)
--89EA8080 ?
--B2D2CB3C ?
89EE9FCF (COMN.NSS|COMN_CleanupNameMsg+11F)
--046E7000 ?
89F19880 (COMN.NSS|FH_DenyWriteMandatory+320)
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
--B2D2CC9C ?
--B2D2CC6C ?
89F1AC98 (COMN.NSS|MSG_Open+C8)
--B2D2CC30 ?
--B2D2CB4C ?
--00020205 (LOADER.NLM|BIOSDriveCount+6105)
--01020031 ?
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
--00000000 (LOADER.NLM|KernelAddressSpace+0)
Additional Information:
The CPU encountered a problem executing code in SERVER.NLM. The problem may be in that module or in data passed to that module by a process owned by SERVER.NLM.
Loaded Modules:
HPINET.NLM HP Data Protector HPINET
Version 6.00 4 October 2007
Code Address: 64C38000h Length: 00012FA3h
Data Address: 44AFE000h Length: 00053BCDh
HPBDANET.NLM HP Data Protector HPBDANET
Version 6.00 4 October 2007
Code Address: 522C1000h Length: 0000F123h
Data Address: 522D1000h Length: 0001D99Dh
HPBDANET.NLM HP Data Protector HPBDANET
Version 6.00 4 October 2007
Code Address: 51331000h Length: 0000F123h
Data Address: 51341000h Length: 0001D99Dh
HPVBDA.NLM HP Data Protector HPVBDA
Version 6.00 4 October 2007
Code Address: 51132000h Length: 000215A6h
Data Address: 51240000h Length: 0002E5C4h
HPVBDA.NLM HP Data Protector HPVBDA
Version 6.00 4 October 2007
Code Address: 50FFD000h Length: 000215A6h
Data Address: 51072000h Length: 0002E5C4h
HPINET.NLM HP Data Protector HPINET
Version 6.00 4 October 2007
Code Address: 50FE9000h Length: 00012FA3h
Data Address: 44A13000h Length: 00053BCDh
HPINET.NLM HP Data Protector HPINET
Version 6.00 4 October 2007
Code Address: 557F0000h Length: 00012FA3h
Data Address: 449BF000h Length: 00053BCDh

On 20.01.2011 10:36, nessen wrote:
>
> Address space GWDVAW.1 removed Friday, 14 January 2011 13:40:01,977
> Abend 0 on P00: Server-5.70.07: Page Fault Processor Exception (Error
> code 00000004)
This is a classical Document Viewer Agent abend, which on Netware will
simply not be solveable without completely disabling it.
If you want to go that route, add /gwdvadisable to your webaccess .waa
file. This will disable all inline rendering of documents and
attachments in webaccess (users will have to download attachments and
view them locally, instead of having them rendered to HTML directly).
That abend can and will hit you any time, for all times, and as I said,
on Netware is not and will never be solved or solveable. It all depends
on which attachments your users will attempt to view, and how often they
do that.
CU,
Massimo Rosen
Novell Product Support Forum Sysop
No emails please!
http://www.cfc-it.de

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> workstations that freeze up are Windows XP pro sp2. You remote into
> their workstation and can view the oracle application they are in
> which runs in IE 6. But as soon as you click on any field IE6 locks
> up and turns all white and then you have to use task manger to close
> IE6. If they are not in the Oracle app you can remote manage them
> with out a problem
what would happen if IE was upgraded to 7??? still the same problem?

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

How to move GWIA 8 to new netware server

I have a server that I managed to get back up and running my GWIA 8 and a secondary MTA and POA. How do I transfer the GWIA/MTA/POA to the new Netware 6.5 server. I dont trust the current server.
While in panic mode, I tried installing it on the new server directly but it wouldn't accept the username / password during the Edirectory login age.
On the new server, I already have the Primary GW8 POA / MTA running.
Just wondering,
Ken

Hi Ken,
You could use DBCopy to copy everything across, and then update the settings on the agents.
I would strongly recommend the following: Caledonia Guide to Moving GroupWise
Good luck.
Cheers,

Netware 6.0 SP5 Apache/Tomcat

I am setting up a New install Netware 6.0 server and have netware all patched up with sp5, & BM 3.7 patched up. This server will not be located in my office so I wanted to try to get the web app side up to date. I want to use Imanager to remotely check the health etc... I know this is an older version of Netware but this is a temporary replacement server and we should only be using this server for a year or 18 months max and we will no longer have a need for it. I say all that to ask how to upgrade Apache & Tomcat so I manager will work. I have EDIR 8.7.3 and the Novell JVM is at 1.4.2.04. The additional requirements for Imanager 2.01 are Tomcat 3.3, Tomcat 4 and Apache 1.3. Currently the server has Tomcat 3.3 installed and Apache 1.03. I can find a TID (10071533) on upgrading Tomcat 3.3 to Tomcat 4 on Netware 6.0 but cannot find the install file "Tomcat4.04b2", or any other variant. So do I need to get a newer version or what? I also need to update the Apache and cannot seem to find the correct files for that either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

On 05/03/2009 14:56, jpeteet wrote:
> So there is nothing "special" I need to do for it to work on Novell
> other than download it and do its setup? Thank you.
Certainly with Apache it's a case of extracting the NLMs from the
archive and then copying over the old ones.
Personally I
* download the update
* extract to a directory on my local machine
* rename the configuration files in the local copy to prevent actual
configuration files on server being overwritten
* make a copy of sys:\apache or sys:\apache2 (depending on which I'm
updating)
* copy the local copy over to the server, overwriting existing files
(remember we've just renamed the config files)
* restart Apache
Hope this helps.
Simon
Do you work with Novell technologies within an academic environment?
Your campus may benefit from joining the Novell Technology Transfer
Partners (TTP) organisation. See www.novell.com/ttp for more info.

Restoring eDirectory info from Netware 5.1 to 6.5.

What are the chances of restoring eDirectory info from a Netware 5.1 server to a NetWare6.5SP8 server?
My network is a mixture of NW6.5SP8 and OES 11SP2 servers, with a single exception.
Due to organizational politics, we have a department that has kept an old NetWare 5.1 server running.
That server crashed yesterday (finally!), and has been removed from eDirectory.
Amidst my joy, however, there is a problem:
My server backup software had never had any ACL-related problems when I've used it to restore data to my NW6.5 or OES11 servers.
That includes restoring data to a different server.
I had no problems restoring the data from this 5.1 server to another location, but no ACL information was included in the restoration.
My only desire at this point is to find a way to discover the ACL information with regard to that data. There were a LOT of group-related access rights on this server.
Even though it wouldn't be my responsibility to recreate those rights, I'd like to see if I can recover it somehow.
What would be the expected result of attempting to restore both the data and the eDirectory info from tape backup of the NetWare 5.1 server to a newly created NW6.5SP8 server?
I don't care how much the server complains about not seeing the rest of the network, as long as I can log into it and look at the file rights information.
If I were to create a new server in its own tree, isolated from the production network, and attempt to restore both data and eDirectory to the server, would it be logical to expect the ACl information to be restored?
I may still have a NW5.1 server CD around somewhere, but if I can accomplish my goal with a NW6.5 server, it'd be faster.
Any thoughts are welcome.

Thank you for your response, Anders
Yes, I'm referring to file rights.
I'm confused, then.
I have always thought that trustee rights involved both eDirectory and the file system; that without eDirectory the file system wouldn't be able to correlate the trustee rights to eDirectory objects (users, groups, etc...).
For instance, I have an OES 11 server that does not use the NSS file system.
I set it up as an NCP server and used the Migration utility to copy files from an NW6.5 server to its ext3 volume
The trustee rights were retained for those files.
I assumed that this was due to the eDirectory information.
If trustee rights are contained in the file system, this becomes even more mysterious to me.
I know for a fact that the data NSS volume on the crashed server had a LOT of trustee rights assignments; this group has a lot of programs that can't be allowed to see each others' data.
Their IT person also backs up the same data, although with a different backup program.
Restoration from his backup had the same result; no trustee rights.
The crashed server still exists, although its SYS volume is corrupted.
Both its SYS volume and it's data volume reside on the same drive, which is mirrored within NetWare.
My next thought was to mount those drives in another computer and see if the data volume remains un-corrupted.

Problem instaling Subscriber in netware cluster

Hello.
I am using ZSM 7.0.1 installation program and trying to install only
subscriber functinality on a cluster OES Netware with Sp5.
The installation says it goes successful in the 2 logfiles that comes up
after the installation but when I try to offline and then online the
cluster-volume with the ZSM7 installed on it it goes into comatose because
the zfs.ncf is missing in the zenworks folder on the volume. I can not find
the file on any other volume on the server. I also have the ZDM701 installed
on the server before I install ZSM701 on it. The ZDM701 install was totaly
fine and it works great. The only ZDM701 services installed on the server on
the same volume is WOL, Import and Removal.
So my question is, how am I supose to get the right files and folders into
the cluster and to get it work. It should not be a problem.
Does anyone no what to do.
Thanks
Best regards Jonas Rydstrom

ZSM is supported on a cluster, you have to choose though to have either a
single cluster resource installed with ZSM or installing in on the
individual nodes. In this case it looks like Jonas installed ZSM on a
cluster resource, that's supposed to work, not sure why zfs.ncf isn't there.
Ron
"Jared Jennings" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:Jv_4i.5587$[email protected]..
> Jonas Rydstrm,
>
>>OK, can you be more specific about what is not supported. I was succesful
>>installing both ZDM701 and ZSM701 Distributor, Subscriber and database on
>>a
>>single server to specific zenworks volume and the services on that server
>>seems to run fine.
>
> It is not supported to run individual subscriber objects on cluster nodes.
> The only portion of ZFS that is supported in a cluster environment is the
> distributor object.
>
> So, you are correct in that you can run ZFS, ZFD, and the database on a
> non-clustered server.
>
> You can also run ZFD on a clustered resource. The ZFD 7.0 with SP1 install
> correctly installed all the files to the clustered volume so that the
> services could load and fail-over with the information being consistent.
> All ZFD services load from \\clusteredvolume\public or
> \\clusteredvolume\system etc.
>
> ZFS supports clustered environments, but the clustered resource that loads
> the distributor code, cannot send distributions to subscriber objects
> representing nodes in the cluster, nor can it send to the clustered
> subscriber object that does exist and represents the clustered zfs
> resource.
>
> --
> Jared Jennings - Data Technique, Inc.
> Novell Support Forums Sysop
> My Blog and Wiki with Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials
> http://jaredjennings.org

ZfD3.2, NetWare 6.0, XPsp2, will it work?

I have a mixed TCP/IPX network. The servers are running NetWare 6.0SP4,
ZfD3.2sp2.
The workstations are Win2k and WinXP, client 4.83sp2, soon to be 4.90sp2
Expirements with the ZfD remote control show that we cannot make it work
at all with Windows XP SP2's firewall (even allowing an exception on
port 1761 udp/tcp). Disabling the XP firewall lets it work (sometimes)
but negates the firewall.
Connection is incredibly unreliable, for any given pair of
source/destination workstations sometimes it works, sometimes it
doesn't, sometimes it asks the dest. for permission, mostly it just
silently does nothing. Are there any logs written anywhere to tell me
what is failing?
Sometimes we find that we can ping the agents, see remote diagnostics,
chat, but no view and no remote control. Reliablity doesn't seem
affected by network, two workstations on the same 100M FD switch are
just as "reliable" as two on seperate campuses.
Remote update clients have been manually removed and re-added with no
observable difference.
The "Remote management" service sometimes starts and sometimes doesn't.
"controlled' workstations that are dual screen will display on the
"controlling" workstation, but the display is never updated (if the
remote control software does connect, authenticate and then run).
* we don't believe there are any problems with the DS
* we don't beleive there are any problems with the network
Is anyone _reliably_ using ZfD 3.2 to remote control workstations in a
production system? If so, how?
Where do we start looking (for log files, etc) to tell us why the remote
control software is so flaky and unreliable?
Or do people use VNC or PCanywhere in reality?
Adrian

Sorry, it took a while to get back to you.
I am using a Zen App to push the registry keys to the workstations.
> This is terrific! I've tested with the firewall off and it works.
> I'm a little unclear as to how to put those items into the exception
list.
> Can I have a little assistance with that?
>
> --
> Chris Denby
> -------------
> IT Coordinator
> Rainy River District School Board
> Fort Frances, Ontario
> Canada
>
>
> "Shawn Dakin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I have a solution to the problems with ZenWorks 3.2 Remote Management
> agent.
> > Unlike other solutions, which only work after login, this will actually
> > allow the service to start on bootup.
> >
> > The problem is not actually a problem, but rather a feature of the WF/
ICS
> > service. The Windows Firewall provided with XP SP2 has a new feature
known
> > as "Startup Security". The Microsoft WF_XPSP2.DOC file states that the
> > "startup Windows Firewall policy to perform stateful packet filtering,
> which
> > allows the computer to perform basic networking startup tasks using
> Dynamic
> > Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and the Domain Name System (DNS)
> protocol
> > to configure the computer and communicate with a domain controller to
> obtain
> > Group Policy updates. Once the Windows Firewall (WF)/Internet
Connection
> > Sharing (ICS) service is started, it uses its configuration and removes
> the
> > startup policy. The startup policy settings cannot be configured."
However
> > changing the service from automatic to manual can disable the startup
> > policy. What we have done is set the service to "manual" and then
evoked
> it
> > before the Zen Remote Agent is loaded. So here is a short description
of
> > what I did. Try it at your own risk!!
> >
> > 1) Change the Windows Firewall/ICS service to manual
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\SharedAccess
> > String Value Start = 3
> >
> > 2) Force Windows Firewall/ICS service to start before Remote Management
> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Novell User Agent
> > Multi String Value DependOnService = SharedAccess
> > NOTE: DependOnService must also contain WM
> >
> > 3)Set Firewall Exceptions for wuser.exe
> > netsh firewall add portopening UDP 1761 ZENRC Enable
> > netsh firewall add portopening UDP 1762 ZENRC Enable
> > netsh firewall add allowedprogram c:\novell\zenrc\wuser32.exe ZenRC
enable
> >
> > This fixed the problems for us, and allows us to remote control even if
> the
> > user is not connected.
> > THIS WORKS WITH ZenWorks 3.2 ONLY
> >
> > Shawn Dakin
> > Assistant Director of Technology
> > CNE 5,6
> > Newcomerstown Schools
> > Newcomerstown, Ohio
> >
>
>

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.

Netware 65sp7-edir8.8sp-GW8.0.2-91781 crashs now and then

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