Introduction to Novell & Linux Management Utilities

Jason Williams

Product Manger

Novell Inc.

Hugo Parra

Product Management Team Lead, OES

Novell Inc.

Tools everywhere and not a toolbox in sight

A Compendium of Management Utilities

iManager™ - Linux and NetWare®

YAST (Yet Another System Tool) - Linux

ConsoleOne - NetWare (unofficially supported on Linux)

BASH (Bourne Again sHell) – NetWare and Linux

NetWare Remote Manager – NRM – NetWare

Server Health Monitor (CIM) – Linux and NetWare

NWAdmin – NetWare

ZENworks® Linux Management Update Manager (formerly Red Carpet) – Linux

Zenworks – NetWare and Windows

iManager, Browser-based Management

Novell® iManager is a Web-based administration console that provides secure, customized access to network administration utilities and content from virtually anywhere you have access to the Internet and a Web browser.

Single point of administration for Novell eDirectoryTM objects, schema, partitions and replicas

Single point of administration for many other network resources

Role-Based Services (RBS) for delegated administration

ConsoleOne – rich client interface

Use on a Windows computer or a NetWare server

Because ConsoleOne is Java-based, it can run on Windows, NetWare, Linux*, Solaris, and Tru64 UNIX.

If your tree is running NDS 8 and has containers with thousands of objects, browsing it in ConsoleOne is faster and more consistent. NWAdmin is slower opening large containers.

Novell Remote Manager - Web client

Novell® Remote Manager for NetWare® is a browser-based utility that you can use to manage one or more NetWare servers.

It accesses information much more quickly than other remote management tools.

It is installed by default on all NetWare servers and requires no special configuration for most operations.

It provides a graphical interface that makes interpreting diagnostic information much more comprehensible and easier to manage.

It provides added functionality that is not available in the other management utilities.

Server Health Monitor – web client

Health Monitoring Services is a framework provided in OES that lets you monitor the health of Linux or NetWare servers using the Common Information Model (CIM).

CIM is a function of OpenWBEM a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing environments.

Health Monitoring Services provides a plug-in for iManager that you can use to monitor the health of Linux or NetWare servers.

In future releases, you will be able configure thresholds and system alerts. Analysis and action recommendations will be made by a policy engine.

YAST – Rich Client Interface SuSE Linux

(YAST)Yet another System Tool

When you start YaST in the graphical mode, the YaST Control Center, opens. The left frame features the categories Software, Hardware, Network Devices, Network Services, Security & Users, System, and Miscellaneous.

If you click the icon for one of these, its contents are listed on the right-hand side. Then select the desired element.

For example, if you select Hardware and click Sound to the right, a configuration dialog opens for the sound card. The configuration of the individual items usually comprises several steps.

NWAdmin – Rich Client Interface

NWAdmin

Red Carpet – RPM Patch Update Client

ZENworks® Linux Management Update Manager

(formerly Red Carpet)

BASH – Bourne Again sHell

Creating Mount Points to Access NetWare Volumes

By default, the BASH shell has access only to the sys volume, which is mapped as root (/) in BASH. To access additional volumes, or to create mount points for other folders, modify sys:/etc/pathtab, placing each mount point and volume on a line similar to the following: [mount point] [volume]

For example:

/vols/data data:\
/mystuff data:\users\username

The first example mounts the data volume to /vols/data in BASH, the second example mounts the users\username folder to /mystuff in BASH.

Questions

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