Novell Technical Subscriptions
May 2006 Highlights - Tech Select Service
What's your pleasure? This month, you have many options. Your Novell® Tech Select Service update includes new evaluation software, a subscriber-exclusive utility for NetWare®, 35 new bonus utilities and five technical papers. Or, if you're really living on the edge, you can start with your support resources first: scanning two issues of Novell Connection magazine, searching 403 Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDs), applying new files and patches and browsing the latest Product Communities updates.
- New Software
- Advanced and Expanded Resources
- Support Resources
- Technical Information Resources
- Developer Resources
- What's New and Upcoming
New Software
Take the latest Novell software for a test drive—there's no better way to know whether it's right for your system. This month's update includes evaluation software for Novell SecureLogin 6 and Novell Linux Point of Service 9.
Novell SecureLogin 6
With Novell® SecureLogin 6, your employees use only a single, secure login to authenticate to the corporate resources they need. Users quickly access the network, applications and secure Web sites with automated login and credential management. Novell SecureLogin eliminates users' frustrations at having to remember and manage individual credentials for each of their applications. Plus, your IT organization can finally enforce consistent credential policies.
With Novell SecureLogin, you can:
- Reduce password-related helpdesk costs
- Simplify user access to multiple systems and applications
- Increase user productivity and reduce the time users waste waiting for credential resets
- Eliminate the need for "sticky note" lists users create to remember their passwords
- Reduce your organization's risk exposure from simple, guessable or static credentials; as well as credential sharing among users
- Comply with government regulations for identity, privacy, policy enforcement, and audit and authentication services
To quickly review the Novell SecureLogin 6 readme file (and see a comprehensive list of the latest functionality), visit: http://www.novell.com/documentation/securelogin60/pdfdoc/readme/readme.pdf
Novell Linux Point of Service 9
Novell Linux Point of Service 9 is the premier Linux platform optimized for the enterprise retail point-of-sale environment. Secure and reliable, it includes Linux for user touch points and in-store servers. It helps retailers reduce their total cost of ownership through centralized administration and deployment tools, small operating-system footprint images, and support for a variety of software products.
Novell Linux Point of Service includes the following features. (Features new to Linux Point of Service 9 are marked with an asterisk.)
- New operating system base: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP1 and Novell Linux Desktop 9 SP1*
- Five Linux images that have a small footprint and are tuned for running the point-of-service application
- Centralized administration and deployment tools
- Support for network boot and diskless operation
- Combined branch server/point-of-service image for small stores*
- Support for retail point-of-service hardware
- Backward compatibility for operating system image deployment*
- Easier image creation through an XML interface*
- Improved installation for Novell Linux Point of Service servers*
- Enhanced multimedia support for checkout-lane advertising*
- Popular Firefox browser option for Web-based applications*
- Multilanguage support
To review the latest patch recommendations for Novell Linux Point of Service, visit: < a href="http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?psdb/7aae22573bfbfb7054b2bc82cb1952ac.html">http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?psdb/7aae22573bfbfb7054b2bc82cb1952ac.html
Advanced and Expanded Resources
Subscriber-exclusive Utility
Recently updated, RRAgent 2.0.1 for NetWare is one of the most popular subscriber-exclusive utilities. In this latest release, RRAgent 2.0.1 for NetWare does the following:
- Reads and reports the attribute "Version" from the Class "NCP Server"
- Sorts the collected server list
- Produces accurate log outputs—correctly handling log level, max log size and so on
- Better handles special characters in HTML forms
- Includes a fix for the abend issue on the local RRAGENT server when collecting data from a Novell Open Enterprise Server–Linux server
- Performs a certificate check on expiration
- TOD—exports and imports trustees and rights from the filesystem into an XML file
- Password Query for OS X—queries the specified LDAP server to determine how many days until the current user's password expires
- GroupWise Accounting Data Report 2.0—generates a report on users' e-mail traffic
- Mozilla Mail LDIF to vCard Converter—provides a PHP library/command-line tool to convert Mozilla Address Book LDIFs to vCards for GroupWise
- config.sh for Linux—collects important system information for troubleshooting
- M-Backup—provides a single command to back up all important system information
- iPrint Tool—installs or removes iPrint Printer without requiring any knowledge of iprntcm
- Modules—offers a Win32-based workstation equivalent for the MODULES console command
- Vendor and Hardware Type Tagging 1.1—creates registry keys for hardware type and vendor name
- Policies.exe—allows you to temporarily remove policy restrictions, do what needs to be done, then put the policy restrictions back–all without a reboot
- Pause Group Policies—allows you to pause group policies so that an admin can work on a locked-down machine under a user's id
- Print Queue Configuration Tool–SNAP—sets up NDPS printers, including paper size, stapler and so forth
- Bash – Make PDF—creates a PDF file from several scanned images
- BET – The Bash Enhancement Tool—provides a set of aliases and functions that simplify most of the complicated and frequently used BASH shell commands
- Directory Listing—provides C code that prints the directory listing (i.e., ls command)
- Festival—makes your computer talk to you and read text documents
- The Avnet and Novell 2006 EPIC Program
- What's New on the NetWare Kernel of Novell Open Enterprise Server
- Database Migration: From Windows to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
- Installing a Secure Server with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and Novell AppArmor
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
- Novell AppArmor 1.2
- Novell Modular Authentication Service 3.1
- Novell Certificate Server 3.1.1
- Novell Password Management 3.1
- Identity Robbed Blind? Victimization by Digital Cloning
- All Eyes on ITV Standardizing a Diverse World
- Xen and the Art of Virtualization Competitive Intelligence & Research Group
- Could There Be a Better Tool? GroupWise 7 Monitor
- MySQL Network
- Pentaho
- Secure Your Open Enterprise. Trusted Access. Plain and Simple
- Splitting Trace Files: Ethereal's Expert System
- Back to Basics: Linux Fundamentals
- Asset Management Covering Your Bases
- Fault Tolerance with Linux High Availability Services
- Accessing GroupWise with SOAP
- GroupWise: Roam Where You Want
- OpenSUSE.org
- Novell Identity Manager 3
- Novell Audit 2.0: Making the Good Even Better
- Novell SecureLogin 6.0
- BrainShare 2006 Preview
- ZENworks and the ENGL Imaging Toolkit
- Automating Installations with AutoYaST
- Got Skills? Bridge 'em to Linux (Part Three)
- Examining TCP Window Technology, Faults and Warnings
- Novell Account Management 3.0 API Developers Guide
- Targeting the NetWare Operating System PDK 5.0
- Xattr Extension for NSS
- Loadable Kernel Module Test Tools for SUSE Linux
- Code 10 Server Beta 9 (the newest release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server)
- Code 10 Desktop Beta 9 (the newest release of Novell Linux Desktop)
- SUSE Linux 10.1 beta 8
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
- The ZENworks family
- The ZENworks Management Web console
- Registering devices into the system and system settings
- Reporting
- Common device-management tasks
- Keeping servers synchronized
- Troubleshooting
Bonus Utilities
How can you enhance your Novell systems? Check out the following sampling of the latest bonus utilities—nearly three dozen new utilities are shipping this month!
White Papers
New insights are just a click away. Take some time to check out the interesting technical white papers shipping this month:
Support Resources
Latest Files and Patches
You want systems that give you 100 percent—every day—without any security breaches or interruptions. To get this kind of performance, you need to make sure that your Novell software is completely up to date. Just review the list of new files and patches (53 are shipping this month) and install the ones that apply to your software.
Technical Information Resources
Product Documentation
If you want to know more about the latest Novell security tools, look no further than this month's documentation releases. Your shipment includes new and updated documentation for the following products:
Novell Connection Magazine (Online)
Do you like being surprised? Even if you don't, you'll welcome this month's unexpected bonus: you're receiving two issues of Novell Connection magazine, instead of just one. The first issue is a special Q1 edition that covers the following topics:
In addition to all of these great articles, you can check out the March 2006 issue. It features outstanding information on the following topics:
New Support Knowledgebase Aocuments (TIDs)
It's time to reclaim your free time. Use our convenient Knowledgebase search tool to quickly track down the information you need. 409 new Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDs) were added this month alone!
Product Communities Articles
Looking for the latest Novell product articles, tips, patches and documentation? All these and more are now available in Novell Product Communities. This month, 162 new articles were added, so you can browse for your favorite topics or even settle in for a chat with one of your peers. If you have questions, comments, additional information or feedback on current content, please let us know. We want to hear from you!
Online Web Forums Archive
Do you have questions about your Novell software? Chances are that someone's already asked them. Check out the online Web forums archive to review years' worth of questions from your peers and the answers from Novell product experts.
Developer Resources
DeveloperNet Newsletters
It's the information you need! Check out the latest DeveloperNet news, reviews, program information and articles in our online newsletter:
Developer Documentation (Online)
Why wait? Visit the DeveloperNet Portal and check out the latest online updates to essential documentation. This month's updates include:
Early Releases
Download and try the early release (beta) products that are now available on the DeveloperNet Portal and the Subscriber Portal. Check back often as new releases are added regularly.
What's New and Upcoming
Can't Find the Online Authorized Training Content?
Early Releases
Novell Press Promotion
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