No rest for the weary

Been a good few weeks, but the pressure is still on, taking a break from the cluster migration to let it stabilize and so we can get a handle on exactly how many users we can allow to connect to each blade. I've capped the number of users arbitrarily at 4000 connections per blade for specification purposes. The next migration will put us at that limit.

They may have found an admin for the other position, but he doesn't have much in the Netware mojo dept. Apparently finding Novell geeks isn't easy, I'd settle for a linux geek since we are on course for going to OES2-SLES within the next year....but not my call.

They are getting ready to light off a major project to replace the main info system, should be an interesting scramble as resources move away.

Been Busy....

The last three months have been an adventure to say the least. so here's some bullet points to get caught up.

• IDM is in place and working like a well oiled machine, had a few bumps (hung partition during the install, but we got through it.
  
• we went live with it back in June. IT just flat out works, we have password sync with our AD side, and edir is now the "authoritative" source for the AD.
• it even sends the admins emails when they make an AD account that doesn't have an eDir counterpart.
  

• Slowly got the core servers up to NW6.5Sp7 with all the patches. Thinning the herd out a bit (see below) and then will get everything up to spec.
• Created a NW6.5Sp7 cluster (2 node) on IBM Blades. This is our second cluster as we had a NW6.5Sp5 one for groupwise already (6 node). We'll be migrating file servers to the cluster's SAN storage starting this weekend. SCMT doing it's job as always.
  
• Suffered a eDir replica hung in split state 0 again, dealt with Novell support, took a few sessions with dsdump to correct the issue. Things seem to be ok now, but we're going to avoid creating any more partitions for the foreseeable future. As our Novell Consultant put it during the IDM implementation " you have enough partitions and replicas to run an eDir with over 1,000,000 objects in it and you only have 20,000" So we'll let this lay for a bit.
• iFolder!! Finally got it working again, so the two of us who use it have it again. I needed to manually remove all the schema entries for iFolder and then do a reinstall, still was getting "Global Initialization needed" error messages on the console. Went through the forums for a bit, figured out that the ifolder_server agent ID's password was expired, changed the date, cycled iFolder and viola~! iFolder is back. Can't wait to get onto OES2-SLES and try the 3.6 version now. People are starting to ask for it when they see it on my machine, boss will decide whether or not we take this out the "skunk works" or not. Hopefully he does, it's a great win for our group
  
• Having some issue with LDAP authentication with a HelpDesk App, they have the cert and an ID for accessing, LDAP all works from my end, but they keep having issues.
• Patched the Groupwise cluster to Sp7. We've been having some random issues with the cluster nodes going comatose for no reason, still researching the issue.
  

So that's the last 3 months in a nutshell, no other Novell admin at work, so at least the days go quickly.