The Novell server for students will be taken off-line early Friday morning (11/14) for a hardware upgrade. During the outage logins to Novell for students will NOT work – most of the time. There will be times when you can log in, but please DON’T! If you have a file open there is a good chance it will be lost or corrupted. Meaning you get to do the work again!

Windows XP computers in labs can be used by use of a special temporary login and password that is posted on the lab doors.

The upgrade will begin shortly after 6am and if all goes well the ST server should be returned to service by noon. If problems are encountered this could be extended by several hours.

The current status of this ST Novell server upgrade will be communicated to the campus via the Critical Information Alert (CIA) system with notices on on the WebMail desktop, EMU Connection page and EMU Home Page (for on-campus users).

The only network services affected by this outage will be the STUDENT services for Novell file and print.

The upgrade completed properly. The old ST server hardware has been unplugged and disconnected from the network. The object id problem from FS didn’t show up here, however the object ID was invalid, but was able to be resolved running DSREPAIR. The outline of what was done:

1. backup and image ST
2. Remove DS from ST.
3. Do migration.
4. Verify volumes and id’s using DSREPAIR
5. Install DS onto ST
6. Install software products – powerchute, novastor, etc
7. Verify everything is working.
8. Make image of ST.

The Novell server NS had larger disks installed.

The four 36 gig disks were replaced with four 73 gig disks. This meant the raid needed to be rebuilt. Since the data section was smaller than 100G, I was able to use server magic. Following is the order of what was done:
I created a tape backup of the server
Ccreated an image of the sys, c: partition.
Deleted most of the data from the data partition.
Created an image of the data partition.
Swapped out disks.
Created the new array and logical drives using server magic – which allows me to increase the size of the netware partition.
Installed both images.
Used Novastor to restore the data to the “SERVIMG” and “IMAGES” volumes.
(this created some problems when trying to restore data to more than 1 volume at a time.)

This now doubled the space to store system images.

Dan Marple Jr.