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Improve eDirectory Disk IO Subsystem with LVM Stripe and XFS

Jeant

As the eDirectory documentation mentions; the most common bottleneck is the disk subsystem, which is especially accentuated in large deployments and/or environments with high consumption of eDirectory services. It also lists some recommendations to take…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
eDirectory PKI Server Cookbook

srahul

In this document, I plan to capture various use cases around eDirectory Certificate Server, eDirectory server certificates, and troubleshooting tips. This is intended to be a live document which will get updated with more information over time. Download…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
Getting started with eDirectory LDAP Transactions

alekz

eDirectory has for some time supported LDAP transactions and this is documented in the Administration Guide that can be found here: https://www.netiq.com/documentation/edirectory-91/edir_admin/data/b4r36pg.html The documentation nicely describes what…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
eDirectory Partitions/Replicas Viewer

aburgemeister

Sometimes it may be nice to have a reliable way to get a quick summary of partitions and replicas from an eDirectory tree. This may be for troubleshooting, or as a record of the current status on a day-to-day basis. As a consultant a common request to…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
OpenSSL Toolkit

tdharris

This is an OpenSSL certificate toolkit utility leveraging OpenSSL's CLI for Linux. This is a simple wrapper utility for OpenSSL CLI to help automate certificate tasks. Download openssl-toolkit.zip or see below for one-liner download, extract, launch:…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
eDirectory Conversion: root to non-root instances

aburgemeister

Since eDirectory 8.8 was released Novell/NetIQ has provided the option to have multiple eDirectory instances on a single system, and to have these running either as 'root' or as a non-root user. There are benefits to both, but generally speaking it is…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
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Directory Cloner

afuhrmann

The directory cloner copies objects (container, user, group etc. free choice of objects types) from a source directory into a a target directory. This function is very useful to copy objects from a productive environment into a stagin, test or development…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
addUsersToGroup.sh

tdharris

addGroupMembership.sh created by Tyler Harris and Mukesh Jethwani Description : Reads in a file containg a list of users (FDN on each line) and adds them to the membership of the defined group and adds that group to the user by generating an LDIF that…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
ndsPacketTrace Script

MigrationDeletedUser

Overview: A tool to easily take ndstraces and packet traces. Symptom: Sometimes a ndstrace or packet trace or both are needed to troubleshoot a network issue, authentication issue, volume/share access issue, eDirectory sync issue, etc... If you are unfamiliar…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
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certfetcher - The easy way to grab public key certificates from available HTTPS, LDAPS, and other

aburgemeister

If you've been in IT for most than ten minutes, and if you are working with any sort of encryption, and if you are security-conscious at all, it is likely that you have dealt with certificates and needed to get a service's certificate chain sooner than…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
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eDirectory supportconfig plugin

aburgemeister

The supportutils RPM (part of SLES and OES) is a great default RPM to have for troubleshooting all kinds of Linux issues. The supportconfig tool, contained within that RPM, is made to gather information on all facets of SLES, and has been including OES…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
Add missing uniqueID attribute

tdharris

This tool finds users that do not have a uniqueID attribute and adds it. User objects created with older versions of eDirectory have this issue. Updating eDirectory does not add this attribute for old user objects. This tool finds all users throughout…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
eDirectory Password Chainsaw

jlodom

password_chainsaw home page url: http://jlodom.org (Update, March 2018: The zip file containing the source got dropped during one of the Cool Solutions migrations. I've put it back at the top of this page.) The Service Desk in my organization has recently…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
eDirectory Radiazer 2 for GUI Management of Radius Users and Profiles

jlodom

Radiazer2_Distribution (Update, March 2018: The zip file containing the source and executable got dropped during one of the Cool Solutions migrations. I’ve put it back at the top of this page.) The eDirectory Radiazer 2 is a simple, cross-platform GUI…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
Transparent Squid authentication with SquidTrust III

MigrationDeletedUser

This article or tip is intended for administrators or users of: NDS/ActiveDir and addresses: Transparent Squid Authentication with Squid ACL's based on Group Membership. The solution is: 2 scripts..one for the workstation, one for the Squid server. You…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
Console2 v2.7

alekz

Console2 This is a simple application that can replace some iManager/Designer/ConsoleOne/dxcmd functions. The main goal is to collect all the functions that I use the most in one application. New in v2.7 Starting/Stopping a driver will now popup a progress…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
IDM AD Driver PWFilter.dll updater INF

lhaeger

download url: http://brummelhook.com/download/pwfilter_inf.zip home page url: http://brummelhook.com/dirxml The IDM AD driver requires a filter DLL to be installed on all DCs for password synchronization. Unfortunately, it seems as if the IDM setup does…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
NDSRC - A Cross-Platform eDirectory/NICI Backup Tool

aburgemeister

ndsrc.zip ndsrc1.zip ndsrc_1.zip
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
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USERMAGIC 1.0

ccoltro

This is a Python script that is very useful when you have to delegate user creation to people outside the company and you maybe don't want to give them access to iManager. This tool “restricts” the rights only to create and delete users, avoiding the…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
Compiling FLAIM on OS X

jlodom

download url: https://github.com/jlodom/FLAIM-Database-For-OS-X/zipball/master home page url: https://github.com/jlodom/FLAIM-Database-For-OS-X FLAIM is a very scalable, quite fantastic database technology. However, it is sorely neglected outside of Novell…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
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PWM v1.6.0

jrivard

PWM is an open source password self service application for LDAP directories. PWM is an ideal candidate for organizations that wish to “role their own” password self service solution, but do not wish to start from scratch. PWM v1.6.0 has been released…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
- eDirectory Tips
Updated DNS / DHCP Console for OS X ( Apple Macintosh )

jlodom

UPDATED MARCH 2014: The tool has been improved! It now uses the DNS/DHCP Console code from OES 11sp2, there is no need to make any modifications to OS X when running it, and some support for Retina displays is available. ------ I prefer to administer…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
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Google Password Sync Script

MigrationDeletedUser

The gadspwsync script allows for the synchronization of Google passwords with eDirectory passwords using the free Google Apps Directory Sync tool from Google. It is a one-way sync from eDirectory to Google allowing existing eDirectory password policies…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
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NCS Volume Resource Validation Tool

MigrationDeletedUser

This tool performs an authenticated, non-destructive LDAP search of the eDirectory database for Novell Cluster Services (NCS) volume resources. Information about each eDirectory object associated with the volume resource helps confirm the proper object…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
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Sample Code - LDAPNetAddr (Updated)

MigrationDeletedUser

An update to the verry handy cool solution Sample Code - LDAPNetAddr I found that recently our edir returned an addresstype 9 (tcp) instead of 1 (IP), which wasn't handled correctly by the sample code. I've modified the code to handle these addresses…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText NetIQ eDirectory
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Improve eDirectory Disk IO Subsystem with LVM Stripe and XFS

eDirectory PKI Server Cookbook

Getting started with eDirectory LDAP Transactions

eDirectory Partitions/Replicas Viewer

OpenSSL Toolkit

eDirectory Conversion: root to non-root instances

Directory Cloner

addUsersToGroup.sh

ndsPacketTrace Script

certfetcher - The easy way to grab public key certificates from available HTTPS, LDAPS, and other

eDirectory supportconfig plugin

Add missing uniqueID attribute

eDirectory Password Chainsaw

eDirectory Radiazer 2 for GUI Management of Radius Users and Profiles

Transparent Squid authentication with SquidTrust III

Console2 v2.7

IDM AD Driver PWFilter.dll updater INF

NDSRC - A Cross-Platform eDirectory/NICI Backup Tool

USERMAGIC 1.0

Compiling FLAIM on OS X

PWM v1.6.0

Updated DNS / DHCP Console for OS X ( Apple Macintosh )

Google Password Sync Script

NCS Volume Resource Validation Tool

Sample Code - LDAPNetAddr (Updated)

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