Troubleshooting guide
Table Of Contents
- Novell eDirectory 8.8 SP7 Troubleshooting Guide
- About This Book
- 1 Resolving Error Codes
- 2 Installation and Configuration
- 2.1 Installation
- 2.1.1 Fatal Error Occurs in Schema Sync When Installing a Second eDirectory Server into the Tree on a SLES 11 Machine
- 2.1.2 Installation Not Successful
- 2.1.3 Installation Takes a Long Time
- 2.1.4 eDirectory Install Fails for Container Administrators
- 2.1.5 NICI Installation Failed - 1497
- 2.1.6 Naming Objects
- 2.1.7 NICI Does Not Get Installed in the Server Mode on Windows
- 2.1.8 Tarball Upgrade Fails With "Cannot open or remove a file containing a running program" Error Message
- 2.1.9 Installing the Library Patches
- 2.2 Configuration
- 2.2.1 Loopback Referrals Are Returned By a Directory Server
- 2.2.2 Tree Name Lookup Failed: -632 Error While Configuring eDirectory 8.8 on Linux
- 2.2.3 Adding New Servers
- 2.2.4 Excluding the DIB directory from Backup or Antivirus Processes
- 2.2.5 eDirectory ndsconfig Displays an Error on RHEL 32-bit System
- 2.3 Upgrade
- 2.3.1 The Integrated Installer Fails to Upgrade on Windows 2003
- 2.3.2 Upgrade Fails from Prior Versions of eDirectory 8.7.3 SP9 to eDirectory 8.8 SP7
- 2.3.3 Upgrade Fails if the Mount Point Is Set to /var/opt/novell/eDirectory/ data
- 2.3.4 Upgrading eDirectory After Applying a Patch Does Not Remove the Patch Version on a Windows System
- 2.4 Multiple Instances
- 2.1 Installation
- 3 Determining the eDirectory Version Number
- 4 Log Files
- 5 Troubleshooting LDIF Files
- 6 Troubleshooting SNMP
- 7 iMonitor
- 7.1 Browsing for Objects Containing Double-Byte Characters in iMonitor
- 7.2 Agent Health Check on a Single-Server Tree
- 7.3 iMonitor Report Does Not Save the Records for Each Hour
- 7.4 Creation and Modification Time Stamps
- 7.5 iMonitor Issues in Older Versions of Mozilla
- 7.6 Run Report Screen Layout Not Aligned on iMonitor
- 7.7 iMonitor Displays Error -672
- 7.8 Time Stamps Displayed in Hexadecimal Format
- 8 iManager
- 9 Obituaries
- 10 Migrating to Novell eDirectory
- 11 Schema
- 12 DSRepair
- 13 Replication
- 14 Clone DIB Issues
- 15 Novell Public Key Infrastructure Services
- 15.1 PKI Operations Not Working
- 15.2 LDAP Search from Netscape Address Book Fails
- 15.3 Removing the configuration of an eDirectory server that is acting as a treekey server in a multiserver tree after having moved the existing eDirectory objects to a different server fails with the error code for Crucial Replica.
- 15.4 While uninstalling the eDirectory Server holding the CA, the KMOs created on that server will be moved to another server in the tree and become invalid
- 16 Troubleshooting Utilities on Linux and UNIX
- 17 NMAS on Linux and UNIX
- 18 Troubleshooting on Windows
- 19 Accessing HTTPSTK When DS Is Not Loaded
- 20 Encrypting Data in eDirectory
- 20.1 Error Messages
- 20.2 Problem With Duplicate Encryption Algorithms
- 20.3 Encryption of Stream Attributes
- 20.4 Configuring Encrypted Replication through iManager
- 20.5 Viewing or Modifying Encrypted Attributes through iManager
- 20.6 Merging Trees With Encrypted Replication Enabled Fails
- 20.7 Limber Displays -603 Error
- 21 The eDirectory Management Toolbox
- 22 SASL-GSSAPI
- 23 Miscellaneous
- 23.1 Backing Up a Container
- 23.2 Repeated eDirectory Logins
- 23.3 Enabling Event System Statistics
- 23.4 Tracking Memory Corruption Issues on Linux
- 23.5 TCP Connection not Terminating after Abnormal Logout
- 23.6 NDS Error, System Failure (-632) Occurs When Doing ldapsearch for the User Objects
- 23.7 Disabling SecretStore
- 23.8 Viewing SLP Man Pages
- 23.9 dsbk Configuration File Location
- 23.10 SLP Interoperability Issues on OES Linux
- 23.11 ldif2dib Fails to Open the Error Log File When the DIB Directory Exists In the Custom Path
- 23.12 eDirectory Server Does Not Start Automatically in the Virtual SLES 10
- 23.13 ndsd Does Not Start After a System Crash
- 23.14 Do not Execute DSTrace With All Tags Enabled on UNIX Systems
- 23.15 LDAP is Not RFC Compliant For Anonymous Search Requests
- 23.16 Troubleshooting Ports with Custom eDirectory 8.8 Instances
- 23.17 Rebooting the Host
- 23.18 ndsd Not Listening at the Loopback Address on a Given NCP Port
- 23.19 LDAP Transaction OIDs
- 23.20 Errors -5871 and -5875 in LDAP Trace
- 23.21 NDSCons Gives -625 Error if a Tree is Renamed
- 23.22 Listening on Multiple NICs Slows Down eDirectory ldapsearch Performance
- 23.23 Unable to Limit the Number of Concurrent Users on UNIX/ Linux Platforms
- 23.24 ndsd Fails to Shut Down Due to SLP
- 23.25 eDirectory Does Not Support Symbolic Links for DIB Location

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7.3 iMonitor Report Does Not Save the Records for Each Hour
The custom reports feature in iMonitor is designed to place the URL specified by the user into the
saved report (the saved HTML file) when the custom report is created. That means that when you
open a saved custom report that has been run, you see the live (current) data instead of the data
captured by the URL at the time the custom report is run. This issue will be resolved in a future
release of iMonitor.
7.4 Creation and Modification Time Stamps
Because UNIX platforms do not maintain the creation time of a file, iMonitor shows both the creation
and modification times to be the same.
7.5 iMonitor Issues in Older Versions of Mozilla
If you access iMonitor using Mozilla versions earlier than 1.5, iMonitor might have problems during
DSTrace Flag selection. Mozilla might not support all the operations.
7.6 Run Report Screen Layout Not Aligned on iMonitor
The navigation and assistant frames appear twice on Linux and Solaris.
To work around this problem, refresh the page.
7.7 iMonitor Displays Error -672
A few operations fail and display error -672, when some debug tool is running in parallel with
iMonitor.
On UNIX
iMonitor displays error -672 if dsdump tool is running in parallel with iMonitor.
To resolve this issue, exit the dsdump tool, before starting iMonitor.
On Windows
iMonitor displays error -672 if the dsbrowse or dsedit tool is running in parallel with iMonitor.
To resolve this issue, exit the dsbrowse and dsedit tool before starting iMonitor.
7.8 Time Stamps Displayed in Hexadecimal Format
If you set a Time syntax attribute with a value prior to January 1, 1970, iMonitor displays the time
stamp for the attribute in hexadecimal format instead of in standard date/time format. iMonitor
displays all attributes with values after January 1, 1970, in date/time format.