Installation steps for Novell eDirectory on SLES9

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setup basic SLES9 installation

activated multicast routing (route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 device eth0)

Installed the following prerequisites using “Install and Remove Software” functionality from Yast:

  • rug, rcd and java2-jre

In case you do not have the SLES9 cd’s at hand, add the following URLs to your list of install sources (”Change Source of Installation”):

  • http://prospero.ard.de/install/sles9/i386/core/CD1
  • http://prospero.ard.de/install/sles9/i386/sles9/CD1

Installed NICI using rpm -ivh nici-2.6.8-0.02.i386.rpm

Unpacked eDirectory tarball to /usr/local/src/eDirectory

Added source /usr/local/src/eDirectory to list of Yast installation sources

Selected all packages in “Install and Remve Software” which appear und “Selections”->”Novell eDirectory”

In order to resolve dependencies it is necessary to remove the “openldap2″ package

Added the following environment variables:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/novell/eDirectory/lib:\

/opt/novell/eDirectory/lib/nds-modules:/opt/novell/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export PATH=/opt/novell/eDirectory/bin:\

/opt/novell/eDirectory/sbin:$PATH

export MANPATH=/opt/novell/man:\

/opt/novell/eDirectory/man:$MANPATH

export TEXTDOMAINDIR=/opt/novell/eDirectory/share/locale:\

$TEXTDOMAINDIR

As an alternative there is the ndspath script which could be called in your .profile or .bashrc login script:

. /opt/novell/eDirectory/bin/ndspath

Start Yast to configure the newly installed eDirectory server under “Network Services”->”eDirectory”

Install iManager 2.6, unpack to /usr/local/src/iManager, cd into /usr/local/src/iManager/installs/linux

./iManagerInstallLinux.bin

Accept all defaults, supply the admin account “admin.user”

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