Novell Service Pack 6 needs to be installed prior to hardware upgrade migration process planned in late October or early November.

The planned outage for this Service Pack upgrade is Saturday morning, 10/04/03

Systems that will be UNAVAILABLE:
Novell Network Disks/Printers (FS, ST, FSAPPS, STAPPS)
Novell NDS Authentication Services:
– EMail (all clients)
– Calendar

Systems that WILL REMAIN available:
EMU Web Server (www.emu.edu)
Blackboard (http://bb.emu.edu)
Sadie (Library Catalog System)
AS400 (CampusWeb)

The installation is expected to take 6 to 9 hours. The process will begin about 6am.
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Close-out Note as of 1:00pm, Saturday 10/04/03:

This upgrade process went very well. All servers returned to service by 11:30am, Saturday, 10/4/03.

Thank you, Dan Marple Jr, for doing a superb job of planning and implementation of this service pack upgrade that involved 6 production Novell servers. This is probably a first to have *NO GLITCHES*!

— Jack Rutt —

= = = = = = = Follow up Comments = = = = = = = =

In preparing for the SP6 upgrade I ran DSREPAIR. This gave me errors on 4 servers. This error was a -771 in reference to “error initializing schema cache”. No matter what I did I couldn’t resolve the error. Following TID 10063329 I did the following on the NS server:

Downed it,
restart using “server -ndb”
ran a local repair
down
restart normally.

This seemed to resolve the errors. I decided not to do anything further till Sat morninng. On Sat Morning I bounced all servers and ran a DSREPAIR on all of them. No errors were reported. Why – I’m not sure.

What was accomplished this outage:

1. Install SP6 on the following servers: NS, LD, FSAPPS, FS ST STAPPS.
2. Image all servers before and after upgrade.
3. No drivers were changed during the upgrade.
4. No files were backed up using the SP backup routine.
5. FSAPPS was upgraded to 2GB memory.

— Dan Marple Jr. —