• Knowledge Document: Installation of iManager plugins hangs

    Installation of iManager plugins hangs and do not show any progress regardless which plugin is selected for installation. It says "calculating time for installation", remains forever at 0%. Environment Open Enterprise Server 23.4 (OES…
  • Disabling iManager plug-ins installation while 24.4 upgrade

    Hi Community, during the second phase of OES 24.4 upgrade (after the first reboot), an item shows "iManager plug-ins installing, this may take a while". Indeed, this is taking a huge "while", close to 90% of the down time. As far as I remember,…
  • Knowledge Document: Trying to manage NSS with iManager results in ERROR:"File protocol error occurred: cannot open the NSS version file on the selected server. The NSS software may not currently be running on this server"

    Environment Open Enterprise Server (OES) OES 2023 OES 23.4/24.1/24.2/24.3 Situation When trying to manage NSS with iManager > Roles and Tasks > Storage, the following error is displayed upon selection of the NCP Server object: ERROR:"File protocol…
  • UMC - Display logged in user

    In iManager, you can see the logged in username in the top right corner. That's extremely useful when one has a regular and an admin level user or multiple users for managing different parts of an eDirectory ecosystem. However that is missing from UMC…
  • Knowledge Document: iManager plug-ins don't uninstall

    iManager plug-ins don't uninstall novell-tomcat[<PID>]: Error: Invalid or corrupt jarfile /var/opt/novell/iManager/nps/UninstallerData/Uninstall_afp/uninstaller.jar Environment Open Enterprise Server (OES) OES 2018 SP3 OES 2023…
  • Knowledge Document: Unable to change User Quotas using iManager

    Unable to change User Quotas using iManager on OES 2023 NSS Volumes. Environment Open Enterprise Server 2023 iManager 3.2.6 Situation Admin user is unable to change user quotas via iManager with the following error message…
  • Unable to initialize JClient: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

    After installing the latest paches I get " Unable to initialize JClient: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError " if I want to login at the iManager. A year ago there was the same error in OES2018 and a HotFix was available. But it is not in the repos…
  • Knowledge Document: iManager and UMC presents a blank screen instead of login after update to OES 24.1.1

    Environment OES 2018 OES 2023 OES 24.1.1 iManager 3.2.6 Situation OES server is upgraded from either OES 2018 or OES 2023 to OES 24.1.1. When attempting to login to iManager, a blank screen is shown instead of the login screen Resolution This…
  • iManager did not upgrade 2018.3 => 23.4

    I recently upgraded our server from OES 2018 SP3 to OES 23.4. The upgrade went relatively smoothly. No errors showed up. Post-install, I installed the Unified Management Console (UMC). I am able to access this, though it seems clunky - requiring…
  • Knowledge Document: iManager is not authenticating behind external F5 Load Balancer Virtual IP

    Environment Open Enterprise Server 2023 iManager Situation Currently the OES environment is running Cluster Services (NCS) and have a Virtual IP resource available between several OES Servers all running iManager to manage the environment. Due to…
  • iManager: How to change my own Password?

    Times ago it was possible that a 'normal' user log into iManager and change his own password. Now, if I log in to iManager as user I see only the Message: "No roles and tasks to display" I assume that there is an issue with RBS ... but where I should…
  • Knowledge Document: iManager / Tomcat: HTTP Status 404

    Products eDirectory (NetIQ eDirectory),Open Enterprise Server (OES) Environment iManager Linux Situation When attempting to access the iManager URL, an HTTP Status 404 error is displayed. Cause One possible cause for this is that Tomcat failed to…
  • OES2023: get the old iManager?

    After update a clustered OES-Environment to OES2023. It is not possible to manage iPrint via iManager. (Printing is OK; IPP-webpage is OK (After I edit /etc/user and /etc/groups)) The iManager-Server was a fresh install, not a inPlace-Upgrade Catalina…
  • OES 2023: Cluster Management

    With OES2023 iManager is deprecated (I assume the guys who developed this are gone and nobody knows how to migrate iManager to the new Java-stack ...) But the UMC does not contain the SnapIn for cluster management. So some of my customers need the iManager…
  • imanager "simple bind failed. You may need to import the certificate from the server"

    Using iManager ver 3.2.6 Passwords, View Policy Assignments, Select user then this error: Error: Simple bind failed. You may need to import the certificate from the server. Creating secure SSL LDAP context failed: simple bind failed: <IP address of…
  • Knowledge Document: Cluster resource still showing even though it's been deleted

    Environment Open Enterprise Server 2018 SP3 Situation There are existing 4 cluster nodes running OES 2018 SP3. One of the cluster resource has already been deleted many years back however it still shows up in iManager under "Cluster Manager" tab…
  • iManager - Effective Rights - Plugin Error

    OES 2018 SP3 In iManager, if I go to Effective Rights on any volume I get this error: Plugin Error Files and Folders plugin encountered an error. Check the logs for more information. Details... NWFile.open: -255 Screenshots: Anyone…
  • iManager out of support

    Hi Community, can anyone confirm or clarify this ? I have an opened case, and support, running out of idea, just told me :"iManager is out of support", and I should install the supported replacement "Identity Console" . right ? Thanks
  • Unable to create any LDAP object with blank

    Hi Community, Today I noticed I am unable to create any LDAP Server nor LDAP Group containing a "blank/space" using iManager. those spaces are replaced by a "\x20" character. and then raise a "-601 error : Object Creation wizard - error" (illegal…
  • NetIQ Certificate Server: Check CSR before signing

    When import a external CSR to sign via the eDir-CA, iManager should check the CSR. If it is not able to issue a correct certificate (e.g. if the key lenght of the CSR and the max. possible lenght of the CA is not matching) iManager should display a warning…
  • DFS not showing in iManager

    I have installed the plugin for Distributed File Services in iManager; however, DFS does not show up in the list of Roles and Tasks. If I go to Configure, then it is listed there under Role Based Services2. I want to move a Volume from one pool to another…
  • iManager LDAP Error editing dynamic group.

    Hi, When trying to edit a dynamic group in iManager I receive the following error: "Unable to obtain a valid LDAP contect. Creating secure SSL LDAP context failed: 192.168.9.246:636" I have checked that LDAP is listening on port 636 and accepts connections…
  • Add urls to edirectory objects in imanager

    If you often have to modify for example a certain group in your edirectory tree, it would be convenient to add a bookmark to this object. If later you klick this bookmark you could directly select this objects and do the tasks you wish.
  • TTP iPrint Printer Lists and Extending Open Enterprise Server Part VII: Basic PHP Code

    In this article and the next one we will explore the printer list PHP code to demonstrate how easy it can be to extend OES for your own nefarious purposes. After that we will wrap up by demonstrating a couple of other utilities made possible by our project…
  • iManager support double-byte characters.

    Now iManager not support double-byte characters. But on the console one was support, User form console one migrate to iManage, Have to edit the text have become"?"