Installation guide

Deploying eDirectory on High Availability Clusters 103
 External shared storage supported by the cluster software
 Virtual IP address
 NetIQ eDirectory 8.8 SP8 or later
10.2.2 Installing and Configuring eDirectory
1 Install and configure eDirectory on the server you want to use as the primary cluster node. For
more information on installation and configuration procedures, refer to the Section 3.6.1,
“Installing or Updating NetIQ eDirectory 8.8 on a Windows Server,” on page 55.
2 Mount the shared volume by using the cluster manager.
3 Back up all DIB files and NICI data before running the configuration utility.
4 On the primary cluster node, open a terminal and navigate to the NDSCons.exe utility. The
utility is located in the
<eDirectory installation folder> folder by default.
5 In the terminal, run the following command:
NDSCons.exe
6 In the NDSCons utility, click Shutdown to stop all eDirectory services.
7 Click Ye s to confirm.
8 In the terminal, navigate to the location of the configuration utility, dsclusterconfig.exe . The
utility is located in the <eDirectory installation folder> folder by default.
9 Run the following command:
dsclusterconfig.exe -s /<sharedfilesystem>
Where <sharedfilesystem> is the location you want to use for the eDirectory shared cluster
data.
NOTE
 You can also run the utility in unattended mode by using -s with
-u option.
 You must specify a folder within a shared drive mounted on the primary cluster node. You
cannot specify only a drive name. For example, instead of specifying
E: , you must specify
E:\Novell .
10 After the utility verifies the cluster shared storage is valid, click y to continue with configuration
on the cluster.
The configuration utility moves the data in the directories above to the following locations on
the shared file system:

<sharedfilesystem>/nici
 <sharedfilesystem>/Files
In addition to moving eDirectory data to the shared file system, the utility copies the eDirectory
service registry key to the shared volume, saving the key as the file
ndsConfigKey .
The utility also changes the Startup Type of the
NDS Server service on the primary node
computer from
Automatic to Manual .
11 In the NDSCons utility, click Startup to start all eDirectory services.
12 Verify that all eDirectory services are running, then use the NDSCons utility to stop services
again.
13 Close the NDSCons utility.
14 Log in to the server you want to use as the secondary node of the cluster.