Hi All,

I am about to migrate a 2 nodes NW cluster to OES2 Linux. But there are
some points I am worried about to get over before carry it on. The
points are the services which can be really migrated and clustered. The
following:

- DNS/DHCP: these services should work properly as documented. Don't they?
- FTP: documentation avoub this service is not available. Can it be
clustered?
- ldap: what about this? Does it follow eDirectory?
- Radius: what about this? Don't know where to start from. Is this
available for Linux? Can it be clustered?

Any feedback and advice are very welcome.

Thanks,
Jan

In article <mOYOk.6209$Fg1.3930@kovat.provo.novell.com>, Jan Kalcic wrote:
> - DNS/DHCP: these services should work properly as documented. Don't they?

I don't know what you mean about 'don't they?'. DNS certainly works, and
DHCP *should* work, once you get it configured. But they work differently
between Linux and NetWare - you need to be sure it is configured and tested
on Linux so you know before doing the migration how it should start/work.

> - FTP: documentation avoub this service is not available. Can it be
> clustered?

I think so (but I'm not sure as I have not done it yet on a Linux cluster).

> - ldap: what about this? Does it follow eDirectory?

It's pretty much provided with eDirectory, so that it will tie into eDir.
Not sure what you mean by 'follow'.

> - Radius: what about this? Don't know where to start from. Is this
> available for Linux? Can it be clustered?

Again, not sure about the clustering part, but I assume you should be able
to make it work. For sure though, it's completely different between the
NetWare versions (BMAS and NMAS) and Linux (FreeRadius). I'm 99.9% sure you
can't expect to take a working NMAS RADIUS config and somehow migrate it to
a FreeRadius config.


Craig Johnson
Novell Support Connection SysOp

Craig Johnson wrote:
> In article <mOYOk.6209$Fg1.3930@kovat.provo.novell.com>, Jan Kalcic wrote:
>> - DNS/DHCP: these services should work properly as documented. Don't they?
>
> I don't know what you mean about 'don't they?'. DNS certainly works, and
> DHCP *should* work, once you get it configured. But they work differently
> between Linux and NetWare - you need to be sure it is configured and tested
> on Linux so you know before doing the migration how it should start/work.
>

I am positive they works on Linux, what I have not tried (yet) is
clustering them. I do it with heartbeat, but that's another movie.

>> - FTP: documentation avoub this service is not available. Can it be
>> clustered?
>
> I think so (but I'm not sure as I have not done it yet on a Linux cluster).
>

Me too. Would appreciate any info about it as documentation does not
give any at all.

>> - ldap: what about this? Does it follow eDirectory?
>
> It's pretty much provided with eDirectory, so that it will tie into eDir.
> Not sure what you mean by 'follow'.
>

You got what I said. I just wanted be sure it ties in eDir.


>> - Radius: what about this? Don't know where to start from. Is this
>> available for Linux? Can it be clustered?
>
> Again, not sure about the clustering part, but I assume you should be able
> to make it work. For sure though, it's completely different between the
> NetWare versions (BMAS and NMAS) and Linux (FreeRadius). I'm 99.9% sure you
> can't expect to take a working NMAS RADIUS config and somehow migrate it to
> a FreeRadius config.

Migration makes me really happy. Would be handy to find how. I don't
think there's a YaST module as nice as the other migration tools.

Thanks,
Jan

On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:03:12 +0000, Jan Kalcic wrote:

> Craig Johnson wrote:
>> In article <mOYOk.6209$Fg1.3930@kovat.provo.novell.com>, Jan Kalcic wrote:
>>> - DNS/DHCP: these services should work properly as documented. Don't they?
>>
>> I don't know what you mean about 'don't they?'. DNS certainly works, and
>> DHCP *should* work, once you get it configured. But they work differently
>> between Linux and NetWare - you need to be sure it is configured and tested
>> on Linux so you know before doing the migration how it should start/work.
>>
>
> I am positive they works on Linux, what I have not tried (yet) is
> clustering them. I do it with heartbeat, but that's another movie.

Standard DNS and DHCP do work with NCS. The eDirectory integrated
versions are a little more picky, but if you follow the docs then they
will work. One small point is that the CASA credentials will not be
properly configured on all nodes - there's a troubleshooting section of
the docs that will fix that though.


>
>>> - FTP: documentation avoub this service is not available. Can it be
>>> clustered?
>>
>> I think so (but I'm not sure as I have not done it yet on a Linux
>> cluster).

I believe that clustered ftp will work fine, but remember you don;t have
the Novell gateway style functionality to redirect users to their home
volumes.


--
Mark Robinson
Novell Volunteer SysOp
www.nds8.co.uk
One by one the penguins steal my sanity...

markr wrote:

>
> Standard DNS and DHCP do work with NCS. The eDirectory integrated
> versions are a little more picky, but if you follow the docs then they
> will work. One small point is that the CASA credentials will not be
> properly configured on all nodes - there's a troubleshooting section of
> the docs that will fix that though.
>

Very good to know.


>
> I believe that clustered ftp will work fine, but remember you don;t have
> the Novell gateway style functionality to redirect users to their home
> volumes.
>

This is something I've read about. Actually I don't know if that is
needed yet.

Thanks,
Jan