Improved Functionality of iPlanet Calendar Server 2.1 Patch 1

Want to specify "calname" value for publicly readable calendars. (389760)

In a "raw" url of a set of publicly readable calendars you can specify a "calname" value that, when viewed, gives the same view as if the user was viewing a calendar set.  Before the calname parameter, the raw url of calids created a view of individual calendars. The most notable difference is that each event in the set of calendars is identified with the calid it belongs too.

Updates since  iPlanet Calendar Server 2.1

Calendar Express

UNIX: calendar is displays wrong day (one day in future) as "Today is" and it also shows the week starting from that date. (369797)

If calendar does not exist in caldb but exists in ldap cal_list you can't login. (385414)

New Cal Set name gets lost if adding calendars . (386407)

IE 5.0 JavaScript error when I try to link to an event, but linked event shows up in calendar. (386409)

JavaScript error "a.name has no properties". The dialog box does not go away. If you hit OK again you get an error that the calendar has already been created. Indeed, the calendar is created . (386416)

JavaScript error when rectifying deleted tasks.In Communicator  4.7, line 732: e has no properties. In IE 5.0, line 733 'e' is not an object. Fixed, the "Cancel" window comes up for a second and then goes away. (388676)

There was a problem when you change the control panel/regional settings of the operating system, which has the same effect as having the locale OS installed. When you are using the English Calendar with the settings changed to French or German you get the following message when trying to create a new event or task, "The server failed to store and/or update one or more events."  (389224)

Internationalization

The calid must contain only 7-bit ASCII alpha-numeric characters. (381192)

Consideration: A valid calid contains only 7-bit ASCII characters. Entering a new Calendar Name containing extended characters returns a calid containing only the 7-bit ASCII alpha-numeric characters in the "calid" field in the New Calendar dialog.

A Calendar Set Name must contain only 7-bit ASCII characters. (381221)

Consideration: A valid Calendar Set name contains only 7-bit ASCII characters.

Timezone IDs are displayed in English. (381335)

Consideration: Timezone IDs are identifiers to the real timezones and therefore cannot be translated without breaking functionality. This will be addressed in the next feature release of iCS.

Calendar Owner names must contain only 7-bit ASCII characters. (382916)

Consideration: A valid Calendar Owner name contains only 7-bit ASCII characters. Entering Calendar Owners with extended characters in their names cause their names to become corrupted when next logged into Calendar Express.

E-mail notification tag lines are displayed in English unless "caldb.smtpmsgfmtdir" in server.conf is set.

Consideration: Setting "caldb.smtpmsgfmtdir" in server.conf indicates which locale to use for mail messages. The default is "en", English.
The calendar server in 2.1 does not attempt to change locale on a per-user basis (as the UI does).  This will be addressed in iCS 5.0.

The login screen does not display localized content unless "local.sitelanguage" in server.conf is set.

Consideration: Setting "local.sitelanguage" in server.conf indicates which locale to use for the login screen. The default is "en", English.

To enable email notification in French and German.

The Makefile and manifest.mn have been added under the install/config/de and install/config/fr directories. To enable the email notification, follow these steps:

1. Backup the files under bin/config/en
2. For French - copy the files from bin/config/fr to bin/config/en
- or -
2. For German - copy the files from  bin/config/de to bin/config/en

Calendar Server

Parsing files with \n, then printing out removes newline. (383082)

Event/Todo with '%' character not correctly displayed. (388893)

Task completed button is always checked if user doesn't have Timezone set to "America/Los_Angeles", when a new task is created even if task didn't happen. (389161)

Features of iPlanet Calendar Server 2.1

A web client, Calendar Express, is provided as part of the Calendar Server. Calendar Express is JavaScript-based and runs on the Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers. Calendar Express has the following features:

• Create and edit calendars (name, description, time zone) and calendar sets (a single composite view of multiple calendars), including support for:
• Multiple owners of a calendar.
• Simple access control (public or private read and write).
• Multiple time zones associated with calendars and calendar sets.
• Create and edit events and tasks (summary, date/time, location, description), including support for:
• Recurring (repeating) events and tasks.
• Notification and reminder (minutes, hours, or days before an event or task) emails to multiple recipients.
• Multiple views like overview, day, week, and month, including support for:
• Table, list, and condensed views.
• View (without login) of public calendars.
• HTML render of summaries and descriptions.
• Print preview.
• Find other calendars by id, name, or owner, including support for:
• Subscription to other calendars.
• Links to individual events in other calendars.
• Import and export of calendars in text/calendar or text/xml formats.
• Options to change appearance and default settings.
• Localizeable to other countries and languages; default is US English.

• Calendar Express UI Customization

A number of command line utilities to perform administration tasks is included with the Calendar Server. One or more users can be assigned as Calendar Server administrators. These administration utilities provide ways to:

Start and stop the Calendar Server.

Backup and restore the calendar database.

Create, modify, delete, or list calendars and their components.

Create, modify, delete, or list calendar users.

List or logout user sessions.

Display Calendar Server statistics.

Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (SPARC) with recommended patches. See:

http://access1.sun.com/patch.recommended/rec.html
 

HP-UX 11.00 (PA-RISC1.1 or better) with the following required operating system patches:

    PHKL_18141
    PHNE_16017
See http://hp.com for information on these recommended patches.
 

Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4

Configurable Kernel Parameters

• Dump kernel tcp settings.

/usr/sbin/ndd /dev/tcp \?
• Dump kernel tcp stats.

netstat -k [interface]
• Dump protocol stack summary stats.

netstat -s
Add these lines to /etc/system
set maxusers=2048
set ncsize=300000
set ufs_ninode=300000
• TCP connection has default hash of 256. SPECweb96 sets this to 262144. Add this line to /etc/system

set tcp:tcp_conn_hash_size=262144
• TCP CLOSE_WAIT interval. Solaris default to 240 seconds (4 minutes). SPECweb96 rules let you set it to 60 seconds. Add this /etc/rc2.d/S69inet

/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_close_wait_interval 60000
• Tune the TCP window size.

/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_xmit_hiwat 32768
/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat 32768
• Tune TCP slow start. It is advisable to set the initial congestion value to 2 since this is used by other vendors and will probably be the next standard anyway.  This gives slightly faster throughput for short, high-speed connections.

/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_slow_start_initial 2
• Tune TCP connection request queues.

/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q 1024
/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q0 1024

Configurable Kernel Parameters

1. Edit /stand/system to modify the kernel parameter you're interested in. This must be done with some care; the parameter must be listed exactly by name.
2. Run 'mk_kernel -o /stand/vmunix'. This builds the new kernel, kernel function set, and marks the kernel for replacement on reboot.
3. Reboot the system.

• max_thread_proc (maximum threads per process)

set to 8192
• nkthread (maximum threads in system)

set to 32768
• maxdsiz (max data segment size limit, heap memory)

figure 100K per concurrent user session, depending on the size of their inbox, a good number is 1GB (0x040000000)
• maxtsiz (max text size)

use 64MB (0x04000000)
• maxfiles_lim (max number of open files per process)

set to 32768
• nfile (max number of files system wide)

set to 65536
• ninode (maximum number inodes in memory)

set to 32768

NOTE: It is also a good idea to increase swap space. For example, on a 128MB RAM machine, 1GB is a good number.

Internationalization

• DE: time zone format. (382181)

Click on button 'Tag' to open dya summary. The column header 'CEST' refers to an American time zone. The correct time zone for Germany is 'MEZ', i.e. Mitteleuropãische Zeit.

Calendar Server

• Invalid session-id hangs UI since no parent.ceCB call. (390206)

See also the previous section, Known Limitations and Considerations, and the following section, Corrections to the Documentation, for other issues that might affect product capability or use.

Installation

• Important note if you have downloaded a Unix version:

The tar files generated for download use the GNU tar utility. In most cases the "GNU tar" (also known as "gtar") and the native Unix "tar" commands are compatible. However, in this case they are not. At this time, you must obtain a copy of the GNU tar utility and use it to extract the files from the archive.
 
• For more information, including where you can obtain the GNU tar utility, refer to technote: http://help.netscape.com/kb/corporate/20000222-3.html
• Note: Neither Netscape Communications Corp., Sun MicroSystems Inc., nor iPlanet provide support for the GNU tar utility.

Internationalization

• The format of the user-preferences has changed slightly to fix Internationalization issues.

Consideration: IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT A LDIF BACKUP IS MADE OF THE USER DIRECTORY BEFORE USING THE MODIFY_XPREFS.PL SCRIPT.
This change will only affect users who have multiple calendars or multiple calendar-sets. The modify_xprefs.pl script will modify the nswcalextendeduserprefs attributes for user(s) in an iPlanet Directory Server. By default this script will automatically fix an issue regarding changing the encryption of the nswcalextendeduserprefs value 'ceAgendaList'.
If when using this script you get a warning about an administrative limit exceeded you will have to go into the Admin Console, double-click on the Directory Server icon, go to Configuration, Database, and under the Performance tab increase the "Look-through limit" to 50,000 or greater.
This script must be run in the same directory as the ldap tools (found in the  <DS server root>/shared/bin). The options used are basically the same as the ldap tools with the addition of the -u (user) and -x (nswcalextendeduserpref) options ...

The bad value in the 'ceAgendaList' was the semicolon in front of the 'name'  value.  If this is found then make the necessary modifications to the 'ceAgendaList' values and then call fix_attributes.

Other Problems and Potential Solutions

• Macintoshes running Internet Explorer are unable to view the calendar in the browser. (390542)

When trying to display the page there is a javascript error; "Object doesn't support this property or method". The top and bottom panel are visible but there is no calendar data displayed in the main middle frame. 
 
Note: We are aware of this problem and it is currently under review.

The iCS 2.1 installation guide under supported platforms, it is reported that Windows NT 4.0 is required to have Service Pack 5, which is incorrect. The required Service Pack level is 4. See also technote #20000124-32.
 

For the Calendar Server installation instructions, visit:
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/calendar/ics21/ig/contents.htm

For the Netscape Directory Server 4.1 or 4.11 installation instructions, visit:
http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/manuals/directory.html

If you can't find the information you need, please contact iPlanet technical support.

Calendar Server 2.1 Patch 1

Server NSPR 3.1.2 , NSS 2.6, and LDAP SDK 3.1

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