Getting to know some useful NetWare tools from one Czech developer

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON NOVELL NETWARE TIPS
08/09/05
Today's focus: Getting to know some useful NetWare tools from
one Czech developer

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In this issue:

* A network interface monitor for NetWare
* Links related to Novell NetWare Tips
* Featured reader resource
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Today's focus: Getting to know some useful NetWare tools from
one Czech developer

By Dave Kearns

Whoever said that there are too few third party utilities,
applications and services for NetWare these days must be daft.
Oh, wait a minute - that was me! I just keep hearing about new
software, or new versions of long established software, that are
either specific to NetWare (i.e., it only runs on or against a
NetWare server) or is primarily for NetWare. A couple of weeks
ago we visited Hungary to find new utilities, today we're in the
Czech Republic.

<aside>There are many products of the Czech Republic that are
well-known to North Americans - but most are players in the
National Hockey League (you remember the NHL, don't you?).
People such as Jaromir Jagr, Martin Straka and Jiri Slegr make
the Czech national team seem like an NHL all-star team. </aside>

Among the "things Czech" that might not be familiar to you is
ROLETOsoft, a software company established in 1992 with a vision
"...to create and provide clever software solutions that really
help." Can't argue with that.

One of those clever solutions, the company's best known in fact,
is NETMON <http://www.roletosoft.com/products/netmon.shtml>.
This is a network interface monitor, a tool to monitor the
traffic on a single network interface card in your server (you
can, of course, monitor each NIC in turn). There is no remote
client portion as everything takes place on the server. It's so
effective that Novell's own technical services people use the
tool and have been known to send a time-limited version out to
customers experiencing trouble as a diagnostic aid to solving
the problem.

In fact, many people believe that this is a Novell tool and is
not available commercially. It is available; it's available
today and it's been available for quite a while. As the reader
who reminded me about NETMON said, "I found their NETMON.NLM
tool to be indispensable. I would use the packet capture feature
all of the time in order to get LAN traffic from server's point
of view." (Thanks Chris!)

While you're visiting the ROLETOsoft Web site (and you should),
also check out its File Commander utility, which allows you to
do file manipulation from the server console. As the blurb for
it says, "It allows [users] to copy, move, delete, rename files
or directories, find and salvage existing or deleted files,
purge deleted files. It also allows [users] to view or edit
files, it provides volume/directory statistics, it shows BINDERY
or NDS objects and their properties/attributes." Bindery
objects? That shows you how long this tool has been around - but
it works with all versions of NetWare up through 6.5.

Also, while you're at the site, grab a free copy of RINGING.NLM.
This is a module that does nothing but rings (like a telephone)
on the server. As the description says, "This is kind of funny
stuff but can also be used in batch/script files to inform
administrator with noisy acoustic signal that something unusual
has happened on the server."

There are lots of good things still available for your NetWare
network, evidently. But if you know of some that I haven't
mentioned recently - remind me!

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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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This newsletter is sponsored by HP ProCurve
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Wireless LANs move beyond data to voice and video

The WAN alphabet is constantly growing, as standards setting
bodies develop new protocols and technologies that will
transform wireless networks. Today, most everyone agrees that
with these new standards and new tools, airtight wireless
security is getting easier to accomplish. Get a
behind-the-scenes look at what cutting-edge users are doing and
the latest information on wireless security trends.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=109930
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