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Novells Guide to Troubleshooting eDirectory

ISBN: 0789731460
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 173

Authors: Peter Kuo, Jim Henderson

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• Novell s Guide to Troubleshooting eDirectory
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• About the Authors
• Acknowledgements
• We Want to Hear from You
• Reader Services
• Introduction
• Who This Book Is For
• How This Book Is Organized
• Special Features in This Book
• Part I: eDirectory Fundamentals
• Chapter 1. The Four Basics of eDirectory Troubleshooting
• Don t Panic
• Understanding the Error Codes and eDirectory Processes
• Troubleshoot and Resolve the Problem
• Proactively Manage eDirectory to Prevent Problems
• Summary
• Chapter 2. eDirectory Basics
• A Brief History of NDSeDirectory and Its Versioning
• The eDirectory Database Structure
• Partition and Replica Types
• Bindery Services
• Time Synchronization
• DHost
• SAP and SLP
• The LDAP Server for NDS
• Object Attribute Names Versus Schema Attribute Names
• Summary
• Chapter 3. The Directory Information Base
• The NDS 6 DIB
• NDS 7 DIB
• NDS 8 and eDirectory DIB
• Locating the DIB
• Backing Up the DIB
• Summary
• Chapter 4. Don t Panic
• Dealing with People
• Dealing with Stress
• Summary
• Part II: Understanding the Error Codes and eDirectory Processes
• Chapter 5. eDirectoryNDS Error Codes Explained
• Types and Causes of DS Errors
• Operating System-Related DS Error Codes
• DS Client API Library Error Codes
• DS Server-Based Client Library Error Codes
• DSA Error Codes
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Understanding Common eDirectory Processes
• NDS Name Resolution and Tree-Walking
• Obituaries
• Background Processes
• Manual Object-Related Processes
• Manual Partition and Replication Processes
• Summary
• Part III: Troubleshooting and Resolving Problems
• Chapter 7. Diagnostic and Repair Tools
• Server Tools
• Workstation Tools
• Information Tools
• Summary
• Chapter 8. eDirectory Data Recovery Tools
• SMS Backup and Restore
• Server Recovery Using Server-Specific Information Data
• Creating SSI Files
• eDirectory Backup eMTool
• Third-Party Data Recovery Utilities
• Summary
• Chapter 9. Diagnosis and Recovery Techniques
• Look Before You Leap
• Troubleshooting Tools
• Combining Diagnostic Tools
• Combining Recovery Tools
• Using Diagnostic Tools with Recovery Tools
• Bridging Gaps Between Tools
• Diagnosing Performance Issues
• Summary
• Chapter 10. Programming for eDirectory
• Using awk
• Using C or C
• Other Programming and Scripting Languages
• Obtaining the NDK
• Summary
• Chapter 11. Examples from the Real World
• Bindery Servicesrelated Issues
• Security Issues
• Schema Problems
• Data Inconsistencies
• Synthetic Time
• Server and Data Recovery
• Summary
• Part IV: Managing eDirectory to Prevent Problems
• Chapter 12. eDirectory Management Tools
• NetWare Administrator
• ConsoleOne
• iManager and NDS iMonitor
• The UImport Utility
• The NList Utility
• The LDAP ICE Utility
• Third-Party Tools
• Summary
• Chapter 13. eDirectory Health Checks
• Why, When, and How Often Should You Do Health Checks?
• Health Check Prerequisites
• Recommended Health Check Procedures
• Health Monitoring Using SNMP
• Summary
• Chapter 14. eDirectory Management Techniques
• Strategies for Managing eDirectory
• Designing for Fault Tolerance
• Single-Object Management
• Multiple-Object Management
• Administration Tips and Tricks
• Summary
• Chapter 15. Effectively Setting Up eDirectory Security
• Physical Security
• Console Security
• Security Policies
• Principles of Good Security
• Keeping Hackers Out
• Hidden Objects
• Setting Up eDirectory Security Access for a Help Desk
• Setting Up a Proxy User for LDAP
• Summary
• Chapter 16. Tuning eDirectory
• Reducing Replication Latency
• Cache Memory Considerations for NDS 7
• Cache Memory Considerations for NDS Version 8
• Cache Memory Considerations for eDirectory
• eDirectory Indexes and Predicate Stats
• Changing Database Block Size
• Unix-Specific Tuning Considerations
• Summary
• Part V: Appendixes
• Appendix A. eDirectory Error Codes
• Appendix B. DS Verbs
• Appendix C. eDirectory Classes, Objects, and Attributes
• Class Definitions
• Base Attributes
• Appendix D. eDirectory Resources
• Novell Resources
• Third-Party Tools
• Third-Party NDSeDirectory Resources
• Books
• Humor
• Index
• index_SYMBOL
• index_A
• index_B
• index_C
• index_D
• index_E
• index_F
• index_G
• index_H
• index_I
• index_J
• index_K
• index_L
• index_M
• index_N
• index_O
• index_P
• index_Q
• index_R
• index_S
• index_T
• index_U
• index_V
• index_W
• index_X