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April 2011 Highlights - Novell Tech Select Service

Novell Technical Subscriptions

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Your Novell Tech Select Service shipment for April is a treasure trove of excellent resources and updates to help you fine tune your Novell products. It features 2 new and updated bonus utilities, 119 new or updated guides, 429 Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDS), 45 ReadMe files and patches, 409 new Cool Solutions articles, and 116 YES Bulletins. Check it out today and make the most of your subscription.

Updated Software

Novell File Management Suite 2.1

The Novell File Management Suite 2.1 is an integrated offering that provisions, relocates, optimizes, and reports on file storage based on user roles and customized business policies. The Novell File Management Suite helps customers manage the chaos of files and file systems in order to gain efficiencies, ensure compliance, and lower costs for their existing network and file storage infrastructure. The products in the suite are interoperable and complementary. Deploy the products independently, or deploy them in combination to take advantage of increased functionality and benefits.

Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization 8.0.3

ZENworks® Application Virtualization 8.0.3 helps you to convert your Windows-compatible applications into self-contained virtual applications. When an application is virtualized, it becomes a single, isolated file that can run instantly from anywhere, including a thumb drive.

Novell Sentinel Log Manager

Novell Sentinel Log Manager provides high event-rate storage, long-term data retention, regional data aggregation, and simple searching and reporting for a broad range of applications and devices.

SUSE Manager 1.2

SUSE Manager delivers best-in-class Linux server management capabilities, like automated software management, system provisioning and monitoring. It enables customers to easily manage Linux server deployments across physical, virtual and cloud environments, decreasing total cost of ownership while improving compliance and service quality.

SuperLumin Nemesis 3

SuperLumin is Novell's preferred vendor for network access control in Open Enterprise Server (OES) environments. SuperLumin Nemesis 3 provides BorderManager functionality plus media caching built on SLES 11.

Advanced Resources

Technical White Papers

This month's release includes 7 new white papers which are sure to help you sharpen your knowledge of Novell products and solutions including:

  • Novell Sentinel Log Manager: Secure, Simple and Powerful Log Management outlines the simple steps organizations can take to inexpensively store and manage large amounts of log data.

  • Novell Identity Manager 4 Advanced Edition will help you conquer the challenge of maintaining control over who is accessing what, how access is being granted, separation of duties and how they generate reports for internal visibility and compliance across all their physical, virtual and cloud environments can be a significant challenge.

  • Predictive Streaming with Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization: By leveraging its predictive streaming capability, ZENworks Application Virtualization allows applications to be delivered to any desktop, without traditional downloads, install and hassles.

  • Virtualizing IT Service Management describes infrastructure software for the new IT landscape and discusses the service-oriented distributed management necessary to create an IT platform. This platform provides many of the traditional mainframe application hosting qualities of virtualized compute and storage, usage accounting, high availability and security for federated cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

  • Boost Productivity While Cutting Costs with Next-generation Collaboration

  • Driving Service Value in a Virtualized Data Center

  • Lower Risk and Drive Efficiency Through Automated Access Certifications and Governance

Bonus Utilities

This month's update includes 2 new and updated utilities listed below:

  • check_gw_threads retrieves counts of SOAP, IMAP, POP, C/S, MsgHandler, and GWCheck threads, and returns with a status of OK, WARNING, or CRITICAL based on configurable threshholds.

  • Web Interface for Monitoring and Managing NTP and Time Synchronisation provides a web interface for eDirectory TimeSync Checks and attempted Repairs for Linux Servers.

Support Resources

Latest Files and Patches

The April shipment includes 45 ReadMe files and patches to help you keep your software running at its peak. Our patches are pretested and can help you with bug fixes, graphic replacements, usability and performance.

Just take a few minutes to download and apply them; you can search our database using many different parameters so you can find exactly what you need.

Technical Information Resources

Product Documentation

For our April shipment here is just a small sample of the new and updated documentation included:

  • Novell Access Manager 3.1.2 / Novell Access Manager 3.1 SP1 Administration Console Guide

  • SUSE Manager / Installation Guide

  • Novell Cloud Manager 1.0 / Novell Cloud Manager 1.0 Administration Guide

New Support Knowledgebase Documents (TIDs)

Do you like to dig deeper? Then your April shipment will give you plenty of shovels. It includes 429 new Support Knowledgebase Documents (TIDs). TIDs include detailed information and important solutions for your technical questions about Novell products. Our improved search utility allows you to search the database in many ways to find exactly what you're looking for. Check out our new and updated TIDs today.

Cool Solutions Articles

The Cool Solutions online community gathers all the innovative tips about your Novell products in one spot. This month you will find 401 new Cool Solutions articles, which means you get 304 ways to make IT work as one-written by Novell engineers and users just like you. We think it's the best source around for tips, tricks, and high-octane tweaks for your Novell products. Stop by today and download free tools, share your expertise and see what else you can learn from this outstanding community.

YES Bulletins

What can you do with the 116 new YES Bulletins shipping in April? You can see which applications are newly certified to to be compatible with your Novell products. Our YES-certified partners include companies you rely on every day to do business, and the large number of YES bulletins this month means you're closer than ever to making IT work as one.

Novell Connection Magazine

February 2011 Issue

What's New and Upcoming

Have you visited the Subscriber Portal Today?

We know it's handy to have your update kit delivered right to your doorstep every month. But don't forget the wealth of additional resources that are available to you through the Subscriber Portal.

Or perhaps you are considering a Novell Certification? Then take a look at our online self-study manuals. You can start Course 3103 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Administration / Manual and take the first step to becoming a Novell Certified Linux Professional.

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