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The Michigan Tree has been upgraded successfully to NetWare 6.5. Departments throughout the Michigan Tree are free to upgrade their servers to NetWare 6.5 (or install new NetWare 6.5 servers.) Here is a document that we wrote to help you through the upgrade process.

At this time we are recommending using the NetWare 6.5sp6 overlay CD's for upgrades and installations. The NetWare 6.5sp6 iso's are available on the NetWare volume.

You may also want to take a look at:

The NetWare product web page:
http://www.novell.com/products/netware/
The NetWare 6.5 SP6 wiki:
http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/Nw65sp6

Before performing the upgrade:

Obtain the latest drivers and/or support pack for the hardware. Some manufacuturers provide an install CD to start the NetWare install. For example, HP's "SmartStart" CD will copy the appropriate drivers for the hardware, and integrate them into the install.
Perform Routine Maintenance on the servers holding a replica of the partition the server is being installed into.
Make sure time is synchronized by typing "time" at the console prompt.
Verify all JetDirect Cards are up to the latest firmware to prevent print queue corruption. See TID 10016807.
During the install you will be prompted for the servers host and domain names. Make sure you have one registered in DNS.
Have the NW6.5 license files available on a CD.
The user ID you use to install the server will need supervisor rights to the container the server resides in, and will need to be a member of the .NetWare Administrators.NetWare_Admins.UMich group. If you do not have sufficient rights, please contact us, Novell.Support@umich.edu.

IMPORTANT!
You must Meet System and Software Requirements, please review them as they are steeper than in the past.

The following does not cover every screen and prompt that will be presented to you during the install, it covers the screens and prompts that ask for settings we consider important, or were determined to be confusing spots we felt needed clarification.

Install Phase

Access the Netware 6.5 OS Disc 1 CD. There are 2 CD's required for installation, the OS disc (#1) and products disc (#2). These are also available as a consolidated single DVD.
Select Manual at the Welcome to the NetWare server installation screen after the license agreements screen
Prepare your partitions. A minimum 500 MB Dos partition is required (we recommend 1500MB).
Enter ServerID (Hex equivilant of the server's IP address).
Accept the License agreements presented.
Select YES at Load server at reboot prompt.
Continue with install.

During 1st File Copy portion:

Respond to disk and lan device configuration screens.
Create SYS volume (you should make it at least 4GB). Continue Installation.

Choose a pattern. For the purpose of this document we chose Basic Netware File Server. For more information on patterned installed and the available pre-configured server installs, click here for choosing server type.
Pattern details and system requirements are displayed. Click on Copy Files.
You will then be prompted for Netware 6.5 CD 2. Insert and press OK to continue.
Enter Server Name
Encryption Screen - provide the NICI Foundation Key (.nfk) file on the License disc.
Configure LAN protocol information (Some information may be populated automatically depending on network)
- click Advanced | SLP tab | enter the addresses for the DAs:
  - 141.211.93.246
  - 141.211.3.46
Configure Domain Name Service information.
Authenticate into the Michigan Tree with your container admin ID.
Choose time zone, click Advanced | check "use timesync configured sources" and fill in sources from this TIMESYNC.CFG.

NDS Summary screen:

Provide correct NDS tree name and correct Server context
Authenticate to the tree.

Install additional license certificate.
Verify the License is correct and click next.
At the "select the NDS Context" dialog box select the container that the server resides in.

LDAP Configuration screen:

Leave LDAP ports at defaults.
Leave "Require TLS for Simple Bind with Password" checked.

NMAS Screen:

Leave NDS as only method to install.

Based on which components you chose to install, you may be prompted for further information pertaining to those products at this point.

Installation Complete Screen:

Reboot server as instructed.

Post SP6 updates
There are a few post SP6 patches which should be installed on every server. We recommend rebooting after each of these. While we have not encountered any issues with these patches, it is much easier troubleshooting if each install was followed by a reboot.

Security Services 2.0.4
wsock6l
nwlib6j
libscp6a
mm65sp6

There are also may be additional post SP6 patches you may wish to install, depending on the products installed on the server.
Please see:

Netware 6.5 Patches

http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/Nw65sp6

For example:

CIFS
iPrint

Perform a Schema check as follows:
```
	SET DSTRACE=ON
	SET DSTRACE=NODEBUG
	SET DSTRACE=+SCHEMA
	SET DSTRACE=*SS
```
Switch to the Directory Services screen. Pause for a moment while this processes. When you see "All processed = YES" you may proceed. Issue SET DSTRACE=OFF to turn off DSTRACE.
Browse your containers with ConsoleOne or NWAdmin32. Any unknown objects? Missing objects? Do things look generally normal?
Run DSREPAIR, using the Advanced options menu | Repair local DS database, setting all options to "Yes" except for "Rebuild Operational Schema" and "Exit automatically upon completion". Upon completion, note the number of errors. Continue to run DSREPAIR to zero errors or stasis, as during routine maintenance.
Configure LAN Static Default Routing in Inetcfg/Protocols/TCP-IP as described in the memo sent out about the June 6th announcement from UMNet Admins.
Configure SLP as described in SLP Configuration Document.
Configure Timesync as described in Michigan Tree Time Synchronization.
Edit AUTOEXEC.NCF, modify the Time Set statements at the top of the file so the "SET Time Zone = ??" line appears AFTER all of the Daylight Savings Time set statements, if it doesn't already.
Ensure the time zone information is correct 2007 DST NetWare.
Turn off any services that are not needed. For example, several file access methods (CIFS, AFP, NFS) are enabled by default. If any of these do not need to be enabled on your server, you should stop the service (CIFSSTOP, AFPSTOP, NFSSTOP), and then edit out the appropriate load line in the AUTOEXEC.NCF (CIFSSTRT, AFPSTRT, NFSSTRT.)

Regardless of the options you chose to install, Novell's Remote Manager (NRM) is installed during the upgrade and is loaded upon reboot through the autoexec.ncf. This is a great tool, but you may want to consider changing the TCP/IP port numbers that NRM; uses, for increased security.

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