Welcome to Novell Deployment Manager

Deployment Manager is a set of utilities to help you prepare for a new installation of, or upgrade to, Novell* Open Enterprise Server (OES). It also contains documentation and hints to ensure the success of your installation or upgrade.

Use the links on the left to navigate through the steps and related information.

Steps Required for NetWare 6.5 and OES NetWare Servers

If you already have a NetWare 6.5 or OES NetWare server in your tree, you do not need to run Deployment Manager.

Optionally, you can run the Schema Update step to make the required extensions to the eDirectory* schema and the extensions for all of the products and services that are bundled with NetWare 6.5 and OES NetWare. This eliminates the need for future server installers to have Admin rights to the root of the tree.

Steps Required for Older NetWare Servers

If you are upgrading NetWare 4.x, 5.x, or 6.0 servers to NetWare 6.5 or OES NetWare, go through all of the steps and run those that apply to your version of NetWare.

Steps Required for OES Linux Servers

If you are installing an OES Linux server into an existing eDirectory tree that contains no NetWare 6.5 or OES NetWare servers, you must first run the Prepare for New eDirectory step if the tree is any version of NDS* or eDirectory prior to eDirectory 8.6.

No other Deployment Manager steps apply to OES Linux servers. For information about preparing to install an OES Linux server, see the OES for Linux Installation Guide.

 

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