I am running 2 - Netware 5.1 Servers and reciently I decided to upgrade the Service Pack to 8. I installed it on both servers and everything seem to work fine... untill the employees showed up and the complaints started pouring in! 15 to 20 of our programmers complained that their access to the two servers was extremly slow and after checking a few of them out I agreed. I tried for 6 unsuccessfull hours to fix it but I could not figure it out. Finally the boss said he had to have it back to the way it was (any help on this matter would be apreciated!!). So I had no choice but to try and uninstall SP8 back to SP3, which I was not to happy about. The uninstall completed on both servers and after a reboot it appeared everything was back to normal (including the speed), untill I ran DSRepair. It ran fine and had a couple of errors on mail directories but no DS errors, but when I exited out, the server had an abend shortly after. After a reboot I tried DSRepair on the other server and the same abend occures. They are PIII 800Mhz XEON Quad Procs w/ 1GB Ram running DS 8.77. I found some tech docs on it saying I needed to aply the 8.77d DS patch but I cannot find a download for it. I started to upgrade the DS to ver 8.85c but the docs on it say I need SP6 or later and I am a little hesitent to install another SP. Would it be safe to upgrade the DS without SP6 or does anyone have download for DS 8.77d? I am thankful for any help that you can give me.
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a bit of a messy one this. Patching that many levels in one go is not always advisable. Even though Novell say you can apply the latest pack without problems is a bit of a white lie. I had the same problems with a Netware 6 server where certain aspects of the update had dependencies on the interim service packs also being installed first. A rollback was the only option and to step up consecutively through the SPs and this cured the problems. (A bit of a ballache when you're that far behind and have multiple servers!). Novell also recommend to do a DSrepair after completeion to let everything sync up, but having done this a few times it is often better to wait for a while (with only 2 servers I would wait about 30-60 minutes with DSTRACE turned on to make sure they are syncing correctly and consistantly.). Do a time sync check as well to make sure this is not misaligned. Do a Local DS repair first before a full unattended as this will not reley on the other server, but do the full on the master replica. Your slow logins are more than likely connected to the replica synchronization. (Have you updated the novell clients on the workstations as well ?). I dont know about the upgrading DS issues you mention but youre version dnumbers ont seem to tally with the Novell site at all.
a bit of a messy one this. Patching that many levels in one go is not always advisable. Even though Novell say you can apply the latest pack without problems is a bit of a white lie. I had the same problems with a Netware 6 server where certain aspects of the update had dependencies on the interim service packs also being installed first. A rollback was the only option and to step up consecutively through the SPs and this cured the problems. (A bit of a ballache when you're that far behind and have multiple servers!). Novell also recommend to do a DSrepair after completeion to let everything sync up, but having done this a few times it is often better to wait for a while (with only 2 servers I would wait about 30-60 minutes with DSTRACE turned on to make sure they are syncing correctly and consistantly.). Do a time sync check as well to make sure this is not misaligned. Do a Local DS repair first before a full unattended as this will not reley on the other server, but do the full on the master replica. Your slow logins are more than likely connected to the replica synchronization. (Have you updated the novell clients on the workstations as well ?). I dont know about the upgrading DS issues you mention but youre version dnumbers ont seem to tally with the Novell site at all.
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I agree with the comments above, you need to stabilize your environment the best you can before applying something else. If you have SP3 it may be worth reapplying it as the roll back may not a completed properly. Atleast the problem is consistent and it is occuring on both server, so its probably a compatibility problem. Check nothing else changed such as SCSI or NIC cards drivers. Also make sure you startup.ncf is not loading anything additional, you may have an old copy kicking around or if you need to go back to backup and restore startup.ncf and autoexec.ncf to anthoer location so you can take a look at them. I always do a techwalk before upgrading any server, so you may have one of those you can reference. Someone else may have even run one recently the report is called techwalk.out and is in the System or public directory (can not remember). I would steer away from upgrading your DS until you need to, we run NW51SP5 (DS 7.55) in a billion dollar an hour production environment without any issues.
Minor point but have sen this before make sure your time is sync'd accross your servers properly as DS gets in a real mess when its not in Sync.
Good luck
David
I agree with the comments above, you need to stabilize your environment the best you can before applying something else. If you have SP3 it may be worth reapplying it as the roll back may not a completed properly. Atleast the problem is consistent and it is occuring on both server, so its probably a compatibility problem. Check nothing else changed such as SCSI or NIC cards drivers. Also make sure you startup.ncf is not loading anything additional, you may have an old copy kicking around or if you need to go back to backup and restore startup.ncf and autoexec.ncf to anthoer location so you can take a look at them. I always do a techwalk before upgrading any server, so you may have one of those you can reference. Someone else may have even run one recently the report is called techwalk.out and is in the System or public directory (can not remember). I would steer away from upgrading your DS until you need to, we run NW51SP5 (DS 7.55) in a billion dollar an hour production environment without any issues.
Minor point but have sen this before make sure your time is sync'd accross your servers properly as DS gets in a real mess when its not in Sync.
Good luck
David
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