Installation guide

Install and Upgrade Features 17
Table 1-1 Health Check Utilities
1.5.4 Types of Health Checks
When you upgrade or run the ndscheck utility, the following types of health checks are done:
 Basic Server Health
 Partitions and Replica Health
If you run the ndscheck utility, the results from the health checks are displayed on the screen and
logged in to
ndscheck.log . For more information on log files, refer to Section 1.5.6, “Log Files,” on
page 18.
If the health checks are done as part of the upgrade, then after the health checks, based on the
criticality of the error, either you are prompted to continue the upgrade process or the process is
aborted. The details of the errors are described in Section 1.5.5, “Categorization of Health,” on
page 18.
Basic Server Health
This is the first stage of the health check.The health check utility checks for the following:
1. The eDirectory service is up. The DIB is open and able to read some basic tree information such
as the tree name.
2. The server is listening on the respective port numbers.
For LDAP, it gets the TCP and the SSL port numbers and checks if the server is listening on these
ports.
Similarly, it gets the HTTP and HTTP secure port numbers and checks if the server is listening on
these ports.
Partitions and Replica Health
After checking the basic server health, the next step is to check the partitions and replica health as
follows:
1. Checks the health of the replicas of the locally held partitions.
Platform Utility Name
Linux ndscheck
Syntax:
ndscheck -h hostname:port -a admin_FDN -F
logfile_path --config-file
configuration_file_name_and_path
NOTE: You can specify either -h or --config-file , but not both
options.
Windows ndscheck