SCO Open Server 6 Technical Overview and Demonstration

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SCO Open. Server 6 Technical Overview and Demonstration John Boland SCO Support 1

SCO Open. Server 6 Technical Overview and Demonstration John Boland SCO Support 1

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § In this session we will cover: § §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § In this session we will cover: § § § § § Open. Server 6 Roadmap and Maintenance Strategy Media Kit Content and System Requirements SCO Open. Server 6 Editions and Licensing New and Updated Features Maintenace Packs and other Projects Open. Server 6 Support Resources Open. Server 5 features not in Open. Server 6 ISL Demonstration Differences and Features Demo 2

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § The Open. Server 6 Roadmap: § First Customer

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § The Open. Server 6 Roadmap: § First Customer Ship (FCS) on Mon 29 th June 2005 § Maintenance Pack 1 posted 3 rd August 2005 at: § http: //www. sco. com/support/update/download/release. php? rid=77 § Maintenance Pack 2 posted 8 th March 2006 at: § http: //www. sco. com/support/update/download/release. php? rid=133 § Included in the March 2006 Media Recut § Maintenace Pack 3 expected towards the end 2006 § For latest Maintenance, Drivers, Optional Services and Media recuts see: http: //www. sco. com/support/update/download/product. php? pfid=12&prid=20 3

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Maintenance Strategy: § The Update

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Maintenance Strategy: § The Update Service has been withdrawn § Customers can purchase SES as an alternative § We no longer create Update Packs § Maintenance Packs now can include: § Escalations fixes, security fixes and other non-escalated issues § Updated packages and components § New features § Maintenance Packs are: § Cumulative, ie MP 2 will include MP 1 and more § Included in the next recut of the product Media Kit 4

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § The Open. Server 6 Media Kit content[1] :

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § The Open. Server 6 Media Kit content[1] : § The Standard and Compact Media Kit include: § The Base Operating System CD § SCO Open. Server Release 6. 0. 0 base OS - including J 2 SE 1. 4. 2 - JRE and JDK § SCO Open. Server Release 6. 0. 0 Development System § The Optional Service CD § § § Ericom Power. Term. TM Web. Connect System Certification Testsuite (SCT) Squid 2. 5 STABLE 9 Tomcat 4. 1. 31 French and German Message Catalogues 5

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § The Open. Server 6 Media Kit content[2] :

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § The Open. Server 6 Media Kit content[2] : § In addition the Standard Media Kit includes: § A hardcopy of the Getting Started Guide § Note that Release Notes are not hardcopy § Are available in /info on the Base CD § Also available on the SCO Web Site Product Doc page § French and German Standard Media Kits with localised Getting Started Guide also available § Latest available Maintenance Pack 6

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 Editions: Edition name Starter

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 Editions: Edition name Starter Enterprise Users 2 10 Memory 1 GB 4 GB CPUs 1 4 Restrictions Special User (5) Bump None 7

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 New Licenses [1]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 New Licenses [1]: § New Edition Licenses for § Starter Edition § Enterprise Editions § New Memory Licenses § for 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB § New 5 User License for Starter Edition only § User Licenses § for 5, 10, 25, 100 and 500 additional users § cannot be used with Starter Edition § CPU License (each additional physical CPU) 8

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 New Licenses [2]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 New Licenses [2]: § New Open. Server 6 Development System License § New NFR Kit License (Includes Starter and Enterprise) § New Starter to Enterprise “Cross-Grade” License § 507 Customers with an SCO Update Service License can use this/these license(s) to install Open. Server 6 § Can defer License at ISL for a 60 day Enterprise Evaluation License § Ericom Power. Term. TM Web. Connect installs with a 50 user 60 day Evaluation License 9

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 Upgrade Licenses [1]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 Upgrade Licenses [1]: § Upgrade licenses only available for: § Open. Server 5. 0. 7 § Open. Server 5. 0. 6 § Upgrade License from Open. Server Enterprise -> § Enterprise Edition with 10 users and 4 CPUs § Can use existing(506/507) User and CPU Licenses § Upgrade License from Open. Server Desktop -> § Starter Edition with 4 GB Memory § Can use existing CPU Licenses 10

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 Upgrade Licenses [2]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 Upgrade Licenses [2]: § Upgrade License from Open. Server Host -> § Starter Edition with 5 users and 4 GB of Memory § Can use existing CPU Licenses § Cannot use additional User Licenses, they must be exchanged § Upgrade License from Open. Server Host -> § Enterprise Edition with 10 users and 4 CPUs § Can use existing CPU Licenses § Can use additional User Licenses § Note that all Upgrades are Edition Sensitive 11

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 Trade In Licenses: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § SCO Open. Server 6 Trade In Licenses: § Trade In Licences are for: § Open. Server Release 5. 0. 5 or earlier § Trade In User and Processor Licenses are also available § Change in Open. Server 6 License behaviour: § System will be shutdown after 60 minutes if: § the system has no valid license § the system has an expired license 12

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Bundled Support: § Optional Service

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Bundled Support: § Optional Service bundled with New Licenses, Upgrades and Trade Ins § The Bundled Support Service includes: § Traditional “Break-Fix” support for 6 months § Per Installation/server § 4 Business Hour Response Phone, E-mail, Fax or Web – Option to Uplift § Two Authorized Technical Contacts § Service is enabled as part of product registration § The Support Service is upgradable § The Service is a per server offering 13

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § System Requirements Hardware Minimum Recommended Maximum CPU Pentium

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § System Requirements Hardware Minimum Recommended Maximum CPU Pentium P 4 32 CPUs Memory 64 Mb 256 Mb 16 GB/64 GB Disk Space 1 GB 4 GB HBA IDE SCSI or SATA HBA Dependent 32 14

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § System Requirements [2]: § CPU can be an:

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § System Requirements [2]: § CPU can be an: § Intel® Celeron®, Pentium II, Pentium II Xeon™, Pentium III, Pentium III Xeon, Pentium 4, or Intel Xeon microprocessor, or a microprocessor that is 100% compatible (e. g. , AMD Athlon™, Athlon 64, Duron™, Sempron™, or Opteron™ processor) § § § Bootable CDROM, PXE NIC or Floppy Video Capable of SVGA PS/2, Serial, Bus or USB Mouse USB or PS/2 keyboard PCI, ISA, PCcard or Wireless Network Card 15

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Features new to Open. Server 6 [1]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Features new to Open. Server 6 [1]: § New SVR 5 Kernel that delivers [1]: § Advanced fine grained locking to scale up to 16 CPUs (OSR 507=4) § Support for up to 16 GB General Purpose Memory (OSR 5=4 GB) § Support via PSE for up to 64 GB using shm/dshm § Large File Support up to 1 Tb (OSR 507 = 2 GB) § Improved Disk I/O Performance § Improved Network Stack Performance § Improved SMP and Load Balancing § Kernel Threads § Dynamically Loadable Modules § Hyperthreading 16

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Features new to Open. Server 6 [2]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Features new to Open. Server 6 [2]: § New SVR 5 Kernel that delivers [2]: § § § Dynamic Add Memory Support Hot Plug CPU Hot Plug PCIx Hot Plug of Disk, Tape and CD/DVD Devices Veritas Journalling Filesystem Encrypted Filesystem support IPsec and VPN MPIO NIC Failover Automatic Tuning at boot time SAN Support (MSA 1000) 17

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Features new to Open. Server 6 [3]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Features new to Open. Server 6 [3]: § New SVR 5 Kernel that delivers [3]: § § § § Serial ATA HBA Support (ahci driver) Serial Attached SCSI HBA Support (hpsas driver) Fiberchannel HBA Support (Qlogic qlc 2300 HBA) Prism II Wireless Nic Support (pcpms driver) Centrino™ Wireless Nic Support Improved AIO (not compatible with Open. Server 5 AIO) AC 97 support for i 845 chipset for applications that do not expect opensound driver. 18

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Features new to Open. Server 6 [4]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Features new to Open. Server 6 [4]: § § § Media Less Boot and Network Install (PXE boot) Emergency Recovery CD KDE Desktop Release 3. 3 Ericom Power. Term. TM Web. Connect Server X. org X 11 R 6 X Server with § Greater device support, Improved performance and Multi-head support § Doc. View support the Print Book Option in Postscript and PDF format § Doc. View content changed from Book to Topic format 19

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Features new to Open. Server 6 [5]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Features new to Open. Server 6 [5]: § § § § § Single Certification of Applications SCOAdmin FTP Manager SCOAdmin Hot Plug Manager SCOAdmin Printer Manager can invoke CUPS Admin Heimdal Kerberos 0. 6. 2 Ib tcpdump Extended Shells (bash, zsh and tcsh) foomatic, ghostscript and hpijs vim and xpdf 20

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Updated Features in Open. Server 6 [1]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Updated Features in Open. Server 6 [1]: § Updated Web Services Components § Perl 5. 8. 6 § Apache 1. 3. 33 (docview) with mod_perl 1. 29 mod_ssl 2. 8. 22 PHP 4. 3. 11 § Mozilla 1. 7. 8 § Tomcat 4. 1. 31 (on Optional Services CD) § Squid 2. 5 Stable 9 (on Optional Services CD) 21

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Updated Features in Open. Server 6 [2]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Updated Features in Open. Server 6 [2]: § Updated Networking Components § Samba 3. 0. 13 § NFS v 3 § Sendmail 8. 11. 1 § Updated Database Components § Postgresql 7. 4. 7 § My. SQL 4. 1. 10 (removed in March 2006 recut) § CDRecord DVD Pro v 2. 01 a 01 22

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Maintenance Pack 1: § Available

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Maintenance Pack 1: § Available to download from § http: //www. sco. com/support/update/download/release. php? rid=77 § Main features included: § § Addition of Dual Core support Mozilla updated to 1. 7. 10 Java updated to 1. 4. 2_08 Critical OS fixes 23

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Maintenance Pack 2: § Available

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Maintenance Pack 2: § Available to download from: § http: //www. sco. com/support/update/download/release. php? rid=133 § Main New features include: § § § § Online Data Manager (ODM) 3. 2 (requires an additional license) Ant 1. 6. 5 ftp and scp now LFS capable Multiple Core Processor support PCI Parallel Port Support UPS Support Scoadmin System Tuner 24

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Maintenance Pack 2: § Updated

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Maintenance Pack 2: § Updated components include: § § § § Apache Web Server 1. 3. 34 Secure Shell Open. SSH_4. 2 p 1 Mozilla Web Browser 1. 7. 12 Java 2 Standard Edition (J 2 SE) 1. 4. 2_10 Portable Document Format (PDF) Viewer 3. 01 pl 1 Heimdal Kerberos 5 Implementation 0. 6. 5 Samba File and Print Server 3. 0. 20 Postgre. SQL Database Management System 8. 1. 0 ESP Ghostscript 8. 15. 1 Apache Tomcat Servlet Container 4. 1. 31 Na Squid Proxy Cache 2. 5. 12 AHCI HBA Driver 1. 1 ide - Generic IDE/ATAPI Driver 7. 1. 4 c § Critical OS fixes 25

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Other Open. Server 6 Projects [1]: § Dialogic

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Other Open. Server 6 Projects [1]: § Dialogic Telephony Drivers: § http: //www. sco. com/support/update/download/release. php? rid=123 § My. SQL Network § http: //www. sco. com/products/mysql/ § SCO HA (requires an additional license): § http: //www. sco. com/support/update/download/release. php? rid=162 § USB Modem and Serial (Expected late June 2006) § Java 1. 5 (expected June 2006) § Firefox/Thunderbird (expected CQ 3 2006) 26

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Other Open. Server 6 Projects [2]: § JBOSS:

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Other Open. Server 6 Projects [2]: § JBOSS: § ftp: //ftp 2. sco. com/pub/skunkware/osr 6/vols/jboss-4. 0. 2 Sa-VOLS. cpio § Wine § ftp: //ftp 2. sco. com/pub/skunkware/osr 6/wine/ § Free. Radius 1. 0. 4 (upcoming Skunkware release) § Open. Office (upcoming Skunkware release) 27

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Support Resources[1]: § Porting Guide:

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Support Resources[1]: § Porting Guide: § http: //www. sco. com/support/docs/openserver/600/porting/osr 6 p orting. TOC. html § Upgrade Guide: § http: //www. sco. com/support/docs/openserver/600/porting/osr 6 p orting. TOC. html § Model Numbers: § http: //www. sco. com/products/openserver 6/model_numbers_mas ter. html § Knowledge base: § http: //wdb 1. sco. com/kb/search 28

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Support Resources[2]: § Online Documentation

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 6 Support Resources[2]: § Online Documentation and Late News § http: //www. sco. com/support/docs/openserver/ § Support Download Page for Open. Server 6: § http: //www. sco. com/support/update/download/product. php? pfid =12&prid=20 § SCO “Legend” Mailing List: § Legend-subscribe@list. sco. com § Porting/Migration Alias: § osr 5 to 6@sco. com 29

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 5 Features not implemented [1]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 5 Features not implemented [1]: § In place upgrade § Complexity introduced by kernel change § For a description of how to manually upgrade see: § http: //www. sco. com/support/docs/openserver/600/upgrade/index. html § Software Raid (Virtual Disk Manager) § ODM shipped as part of MP 2 § Advanced File and Print Server (AFPS) § Migration Guide to Samba at: § http: //www. sco. com/support/docs/openserver/600/migration/AFPSto Samba. Mig. Guide. htm 30

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 5 features not implemented [2]: §

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Open. Server 5 features not implemented [2]: § Netscape Communicator § Mozilla 1. 7 is the alternative § Netscape Fasttrak Server § Apache 1. 3 is the alternative § Volution Manager § IPX, Net. BIOS and Netware § Advanced Power Management 31

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Issues to be aware of [1]: § Open.

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Issues to be aware of [1]: § Open. Server 5 kernel drivers will not work on Open. Server 6 § Application/Console issues with at 386 -ie: TA 126154 and MP 2 § PCI Parallel Ports: See MP 2 § Documentation references to Open. Server 5 § Configuring a new Host Bus Adapter: TA 126185 § Running SCO Unix, Open. Server 5 and Unix. Ware 7 applications on Open. Server 6: TA 126184 § Modem Serial Port for Dial in/out: TA 126160 32

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Issues to be aware of [2]: § Running

Open. Server 6 Technical Overview § Issues to be aware of [2]: § Running Foxbase on Open. Server 6: TA 126153 § vi(C) displays only 8 lines: TA 126115 § Emergency Boot from CD only 33

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § In this section we will cover: § Initial

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § In this section we will cover: § Initial System Load (ISL) Enhancements § Installing SCO Open. Server 6 § Hands on installation of SCO Open. Server 6 34

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § Initial System Load (ISL) Enhancements: § § §

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § Initial System Load (ISL) Enhancements: § § § § § “No emulation” CD boot Autoboot timer displayed at boot prompt Support for install above 1024 cylinders/8 GB Autodetect of CPUs at boot time Boot splash screen Support for Installation Response Disk Prompt for additional HBAs during ISL HBA install from floppy and CD Ability to run DCU once HBAs are loaded 35

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § ISL Enhancements [2]: § Defer option <F 8>

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § ISL Enhancements [2]: § Defer option <F 8> to use Evaluation License § Enterprise Edition is used for Evaluation § Install Media options are § autodetected CD drives § TCP Network Server § Can set the time on the server at install time § ISL accepts multiple licenses for upgrades § Licenses must be entered “most recent first” § Note there is no option to perform an in-place upgrade 36

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § ISL Enhancements [3]: § Hard Disk Setup Changes:

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § ISL Enhancements [3]: § Hard Disk Setup Changes: § No need to badtrack disks anymore § New option to install on Alternative disk § “Customise” runs fdisk and divvy and allows you to configure up to 11 divisions on Primary Disk § Root filesystem can be VXFS or HTFS § User defined filesystems can be VXFS, HTFS, EAFS, S 51 K 37

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § ISL Enhancements [4]: § Graphics card, mode and

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § ISL Enhancements [4]: § Graphics card, mode and resolution not configured at install time § Graphics deferred or autoconfigured at Xserver start § Mouse is autodetected and tested § Support for Network and Media less (PXE) install § Post ISL install logs are held in /usr/adm/ISL/log § ISL Restrictions: § ISL via Serial Console Not Supported § Support for configuration of only 1 disk at ISL § hwconfig hardware listing no longer displayed 38

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § ISL Demo/Walkthrough 39

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § ISL Demo/Walkthrough 39

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § Features and Differences Demo 40

SCO Open. Server 6 Installation § Features and Differences Demo 40

Questions? 41

Questions? 41