Reader suggested tools for NetWare

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON NOVELL NETWARE TIPS
06/16/05
Today's focus: Reader suggested tools for NetWare

Dear networking.world@gmail.com,

In this issue:

* Tools from Adrem and Blackbird, plus a tool to roll your own
  NetWare utility
* Links related to Novell NetWare Tips
* Featured reader resource
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Today's focus: Reader suggested tools for NetWare

By Dave Kearns

A number of you have sent in suggestions and links to tools,
utilities and software that's either designed for NetWare, works
with NetWare or is simply useful on a NetWare network. Today, I
want to point to a few of these in the hopes that one or more
might be of interest to you.

First up, a company that has been supporting NetWare for quite
some time: Adrem Software. Most of you know Adrem because it
makes available, for free, the Adrem Remote Console for NetWare
servers, a much more secure tool than NetWare's included
Rconsole ( <http://www.adremsoft.com/freecon/index.php> ).

But there's more available from the company, including the Adrem
Server Manager, soon to release in a new version, 5.0. The
company assures me that Server Manager can be used on all
versions of NetWare from 4.2 through the latest Open Enterprise
Server (NetWare kernel), and it intends to keep this
functionality in future versions.

Another product and company that I've previously mentioned, but
should point to again, is the Blackbird Group and its eDirectory
tool DeTroubler (
<http://www.blackbirdgroup.net/products/detroubler.htm> ).
Blackbird calls DeTroubler "The answer to all your disaster
recovery needs for your directory," and that's not really an
exaggeration.

DeTroubler works by reading eDirectory information and then
writing it into an SQL database file, which is then available
for file backup by your existing SMS-based backup solution.
Should you need to, you can restore single objects or large
parts of your tree rapidly, with just a few mouse clicks.
DeTroubler also supports an automatic full tree restore, without
manual intervention. DeTroubler has no dependencies on any
schema changes, fully supports Inherited Rights filters (IRF)
and all the hidden attributes (including Public/Private Key
Pairs, Novell Secret Store, Certificates and Key Material
Objects). It's another one of those tools that let's you sleep
better at night.

Still, sometimes you just have to roll your own when it comes to
NetWare utilities. And for those of you "of a certain age,"
Pascal was probably one of the first programming languages you
learned. Now you can both relive your youth as well as design
your own NetWare utilities with Free Pascal 2.0, an open source
version of the language that fully supports NetWare's C
programming libraries (Libc) to enable you to completely
customize your own tools. Check the documentation (
<http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Netware> ) to see if
this is something you'd use but given the price (free) I'm sure
there's one utility you could find the time to create. If you
do, and if it's useful, think about releasing it (perhaps
through Novell's own Cool Tools) to benefit the entire NetWare
community. Maybe, a year from now, I'll be telling people about
your new application.
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To contact: Dave Kearns

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.

Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these

respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.

Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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