eDirectory: Tools and Diagnostics

Course Overview

Novell eDirectory Tools and Diagnostics (Course 3007) is a practical skills course. It focuses on preventing, troubleshooting, and solving common problems related to eDirectory communication, synchronization, caching, and replication processes and on such integral tasks as server maintenance, database backup, and disaster prevention and recovery.

Course 3007 provides opportunities to perform eDirectory install and upgrade tasks, and tree design and health check procedures. All these are performed in both a NetWare only and a multi-platform environment using the latest web-based eDirectory administration tools.

Course 3007 is primarily a hands-on course with less time spent in lecture than most courses. The instructor is primarily a facilitator to help students improve on their advanced knowledge and skills. The final day is set aside for a "live fire" experience that is less structured than the first 4 days. It is entirely hands-on and is designed to give students a chance to reinforce their practical skills, in accordance with the objectives of the course.

Audience

This course is for students who have extensive experience managing Novell networks.You should have Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) certification (or equivalent experience) in NetWare 4, NetWare 5, or NetWare 6.

Skills Gained

In completing this course, students will:

• Identify Basic Directory and eDirectory 8.7 Features
• Install and Upgrade eDirectory 8.7
• Implement Design Guidelines to Prevent eDirectory Issues
• Use Troubleshooting Steps and Tools to Resolve eDirectory Issues
• Describe and Analyze eDirectory Background Processes
• Perform an eDirectory Health Check
• Identify eDirectory Disaster Planning and Recovery and Server Maintenance Issues
• Troubleshoot and Solve Communication Issues
• Troubleshoot and Solve Time Synchronization Issues
• Troubleshoot Schema Synchronization Issues
• Troubleshoot and Solve Partition and Replica Consistency Issues
• Troubleshooting eDirectory Rights
• Troubleshoot and Solve eDirectory Performance Issues

Prerequisites

You must have an understanding of the following:

• Novell Course 520, 560, 3001 or 3016
• Novell Course 525, 570, 3004 or 3042
• Novell Course 532 or 575
• Novell Course 801, 580, or 3005

• Terminology, hardware, and practices commonly used in large enterprise networks

Course Outline

Optimise and Manage the Network

• Identify Key Components of a Basic Directory
• Identify eDirectory 8.7 Features
• Install and Upgrade eDirectory 8.7
• Upgrade eDirectory 8.6 to eDirectory 8.7 on NetWare Servers
• Install eDirectory 8.7 on a Windows 2000 Server
• Install eDirectory 8.7 on a Linux Server
• Implement Design Guidelines to Prevent eDirectory Issues
• Design and Configure SLP v2
• Design and Configure Time Synchronization
• Design Logical eDirectory Tree Structure
• Design and Configure Partitions and Replication
• Use Troubleshooting Steps and Tools to Resolve eDirectory Issues
• Identify eDirectory Troubleshooting Steps
• Use Troubleshooting Steps and Tools to Resolve an eDirectory Issue
• Create DIB Sets
• Describe and Analyze eDirectory Background Processes
• Describe eDirectory Background Processes
• Describe and Analyze the Limber Process
• Describe and Analyze the Schema Synchronization Process
• Describe and Analyze the External Reference Checker Process
• Describe and Analyze the Obituary Process
• Describe and Analyze the Janitor Process
• Describe and Analyze the Purger Process
• Perform an eDirectory Health Check
• Identify Why, When, and How Often to Perform a Health Check
• Identify Health Check Prerequisites
• Perform Health Checks
• Identify eDirectory Disaster Planning and Recovery and Server Maintenance Issues
• Identify eDirectory Disaster Recovery Issues
• Configure eDirectory Backup and Restore eMTool Box
• Identify and Resolve eDirectory and Server Maintenance Issues
• Troubleshoot and Solve Communication Issues
• Identify Common Causes of Communication Failures
• Troubleshoot Protocol Communication
• Troubleshoot SLP Communication Issues
• Troubleshoot and Solve Time Synchronization Issues
• Troubleshoot NTP Problems
• Resolve Synthetic Time Problems
• Troubleshoot Schema Synchronization Issues
• Identify the eDirectory Schema
• Identify How Schema Synchronization Works
• View the Schema Synchronization Process
• Fix Schema Synchronization Problems
• Troubleshoot and Solve Partition and Replica Consistency Issues
• Perform Partition Operations
• Apply Replica Guidelines.
• Troubleshoot Inconsistent Replicas
• Troubleshoot Inconsistent Objects
• Troubleshoot Obituaries
• Troubleshooting eDirectory Rights
• Identify eDirectory Rights Concepts
• Troubleshoot Problems Accessing Network
• Troubleshoot Unauthorized Access (Too Many Rights)
• Locate Hidden Objects in the Tree
• Troubleshoot and Solve eDirectory Performance Issues
• Troubleshoot and Solve High-Utilization Problems
• Tune eDirectory for Optimum Performance
• LiveFire Exercises
• Solve eDirectory Problems

eDirectory: Tools and Diagnostics / N3007 (Novell 3007, NV3007)