Novell NetWare

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Novell NetWare

• Novell NetWare is the venerable file and print
  server that has been around for as long as there
  has been a local area network (LAN).

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Novell NetWare

• The core NetWare system is launched from
  DOS--you boot up the server under DOS and then
  run NetWare. At that point, NetWare takes over
  the system and DOS is no longer the dominate
  operating system.

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Novell NetWare

• The NetWare server manages the transmission of
  data among the network devices, stores and
  retrieves data from hard disks, manages one or
  more file systems, ensures data integrity,
  manages printers and printing, and allocates and
  manages memory.

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Novell NetWare

• The NetWare server is designed to operate on
  either a uniprocessing or multiprocessing
  computer.

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Novell NetWare

• In large environments, NetWare worked well as
  file and print servers, but did not fare well as
  database or messaging servers. To address this
  limitation, Novell has introduced NetWare
  Symmetrical Multi-Processing (SMP) 4.1, which
  enables NetWare to take advantage of multiple
  processor hardware platforms.

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Novell NetWare

• Novell pioneered the PC LAN network operating
  system in the PC market. From a technology
  perspective, however, Novell offered few true
  innovations in the area of file and print
  sharing--most of the concepts Novell implemented
  were borrowed from other computer markets.

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Novell NetWare

• In the early days of PC LANs, a number of
  companies--some big, some small--rushed products
  to market to claim space in the exploding market.

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Novell NetWare

• In all fairness, many of these products offered
  technical features and functions superior to
  NetWare however, none of the companies behind
  those products could match Novell's marketing
  effort.

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Novell NetWare

• Novell took a solid, but hardly best-of-class
  product, and leveraged it into a leadership
  position through salesmanship and marketing
  savvy.

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Novell NetWare

• After Novell gained control of the market, they
  made major develop investments in NetWare to
  shore up some of the technical inadequacies and
  insure it's longevity in the market.

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Novell NetWare

• One of the key early developments was the
  release of a System Fault Tolerance (SFT) version
  of NetWare that addressed the data
  protection/data recovery demands of large
  businesses.

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Novell NetWare

• As the market leader, Novell set the stage for a
  long line of PC LAN innovations that extend well
  beyond simple file and print services.

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Novell NetWare

• Novell designed the NetWare Load Module (NLM) to
  enable third-party companies to write server-side
  NetWare applications and enterprise-oriented
  features, such as fault tolerance and data
  recovery.

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Novell NetWare

• NLMs are Novells way of customizing the server
  to run just the services you want. You can load
  or unload NLMs to provide or remove different
  types of services, like DHCP, DNS, FTP, or many
  others.

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Novell NetWare

• Novell licensed other companies to port NetWare
  to non-Intel systems, such as high-performance
  UNIX systems. These systems were quite capable of
  running both NetWare and other business
  applications concurrently.

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Novell NetWare

• Although NetWare has been ported to non-Intel
  systems where it can run alongside other
  applications, the majority of NetWare
  installations are, in fact, dedicated,
  Intel-based servers.

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Novell NetWare

• Like any large, prosperous, and fast-growing
  company, some of Novell's new products and new
  ideas were less than successful. Novell succeeded
  only in wasting millions of dollars and years of
  research.

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Novell NetWare

• Even worse, Novell's lack of focus during this
  phase enabled Windows NT to penetrate deep into
  Novell's file and print server market.

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Novell NetWare

• Starting with NetWare 4.1, Novell also
  introduced NetWare Directory Services (NDS) to
  help network administrators manage enterprise
  networks.

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Novell NetWare

• NDS is a global directory service that provides
  an organized, hierarchical structure for the
  administration and management of network
  resources (in other words, users, file servers,
  shared printers, and so on).

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Novell NetWare

• NDS offers a significant advantage over the
  older NetWare bindery. Under NDS, the entire
  network appears to the end user as a single
  entity, and permits a single log on to access all
  servers and shared network resources. Because the
  NDS structure is replicated across servers, there
  is no single point of failure.

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Novell NetWare

• Originally, NetWare used server-based security
  that required each user to log on to every server
  on which he or she needed resources.

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Novell NetWare

• With the advent of NDS, however, user
  permissions can be set up on a network-wide
  basis, and each user simply has to log on to the
  network once. After a user logs on, NetWare can
  activate a user-specific batch program (a log on
  script) that allocates the resources the user
  accesses on a regular basis.

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Novell NetWare

• Novell has clearly realized that it is becoming
  rare for an enterprise to use a single server
  operating system. With this in mind, Novell plans
  to integrate Microsoft, HP, IBM, Sun, and SCO
  server platforms by making them all manageable
  via Novell's NetWare Directory Services (NDS).

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Novell NetWare

• As NDS continued to mature, it was given a new
  moniker for the e-business age it is now called
  the NDS eDirectory.

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Novell NetWare

• The way Novell would like to see the eDirectory
  work is by allowing the use of directory-enabled
  applications. With these applications, you could
  customize the application so your customers can
  populate a customer-driven directory. Your
  business partners can communicate directly with
  each other and make use of each others directory.

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Novell NetWare

• NDS eDirectory is truly the lynchpin of the new
  Novell. It is what makes NetWare suitable for use
  in a large organization. NDS has been around for
  years, so as a directory service, it is proven
  and has a track record.

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Novell NetWare

• More importantly, as a mature product, it has
  been broken and has been fixed, and has a well
  trained and experienced workforce to run the
  network.

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Novell NetWare

• The configuration and management of a NetWare
  system can be performed at the system console,
  which is the keyboard and the monitor attached to
  the system. The system console provides a simple,
  character-mode interface for configuration and
  administration tasks.

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Novell NetWare

• From the server console you can
• -Shut down and restart the server
• -Load and unload NLM programs
• -Monitor server performance
• -View network traffic
• -Set configuration parameters
• -Edit configuration and other batch files
• -Send messages

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Novell NetWare

• The server console supports more than one
  interface
• Command line. Commands can be entered at the
  server console prompt, with or without options
  and parameters. The prompt is indicated by a
  colon ().
• LOAD is an example of a server console command.

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Novell NetWare

• The server console supports more than one
  interface (continued)

• Character-based menuing. Utilities use menus,
  lists, and portals.
• The key utility for monitoring the
  server--MONITOR--is an example of this interface.

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Novell NetWare

• The server console supports more than one
  interface (continued)

3) ConsoleOne . This new Servertop
application uses a graphical user interface
(GUI). ConsoleOne is a Java-based administration
tool that can also be used to remotely administer
your network.
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Novell NetWare

• The server console supports more than one
  interface (continued)

• 4) NetWare Management Portal - The NetWare
  Management Portal allows system administrators to
  manage their NetWare 5.1 servers from any Web
  connection on the network.
• While this is a NetWare 5.1 tool, partial
  functionality is provided for NetWare 4.x servers
  and above

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Novell NetWare

• NetWare typically relies on the Internet Packet
  Exchange (IPX) protocol as the network transport
  between the client and server systems. Although
  Novell is aggressively moving toward supporting
  TCP/IP instead of IPX, the majority of NetWare
  installations still use IPX as the primary
  transport.

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Novell NetWare

• At the network level, the routing capabilities
  and simple client configuration of Novell's IPX
  protocol suite enables NetWare customers to
  easily construct networks of any size

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Novell NetWare

• Novell has launched a Smart Global Network
  initiative. Under this initiative NetWare
  services will be extended to the Internet and to
  other types of networks so NetWare can become the
  central focus of networking in a heterogeneous
  environment.