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Managing NetWare from a Browser

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PCQ Bureau
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The latest release of NetWare–version 5.1–has a

management tool called the NetWare Web Manager that allows you to manage various

services using a Web browser. These include the NetWare Enterprise Web Server,

News Server, Web Search Server, and Multimedia Server. In addition to this, you

can also manage various aspects of your Novell Directory Services, and also do

cluster management. We’ll discuss how you can set up the Web Manager to do

this.

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The NetWare Web Manager automatically gets installed when you

install any of the Web services that we’ve mentioned. To access it, you need

any Web browser that supports Java and JavaScript, like IE 4.x or above, or

Netscape Communicator.

The Web Manager works over a secure link, so when accessing

it, you must use HTTPS instead of the regular HTTP. You must also specify a port

number, which by default is set to 2200.

The main page in Web Manager is the General Administration page. You

can access your NDS tree from here. In the tree, you can go further into

any Organizational unit, create new users, or modify the properties of

existing users

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All this makes NetWare servers and resources on them

much easier to manage.

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In addition to this, you can also obtain various statistics of your NetWare server using a Web browser. For this, type the IP address of the server. Here, you’ll find a login button. Click that button and you’ll be prompted to enter a username and password with administrative rights

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After entering, you have access to a wealth of management information

related to the server–including applications running on it, NDS,

hardware, and health. For example, in Server Management, you can see

various statistics that would otherwise be available only through the

Monitor utility that has to be loaded on the server console. This includes

information related to how the memory is being used, connections, volume

information, etc

Anil Chopra

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