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August 2011 Highlights - Novell Tech Select Service

Novell Technical Subscriptions

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Your Novell Tech Select Service shipment for August is a treasure trove of excellent resources and updates to help you fine tune your Novell products. It features 4 new white papers, 417 Support Knowledgebase documents (TIDs), 57 new and updated documentation guides, 15 ReadMe files and patches, 51 new Cool Solutions articles,134 YES Bulletins and one issue of the Novell Connection Magazine. Check it out today and make the most of your subscription.

Updated Software

Novell Storage Manager 3.0.2

Novell Storage Manager introduces management and structure to an unmanaged and unstructured network storage system. Novell Storage Manager automates a comprehensive set of storage management tasks based on events, identity, and policies. Novell Storage Manager ensures that compliance policies are in place and that processes are followed.

Novell Storage Manager automates the complete life cycle management of user and group file system storage. As the world's only identity-based storage management solution, Novell Storage Manager leverages the power of network directory services, also referred to as "the directory" (either Novell eDirectory™ or Microsoft Active Directory) with directory-integrated Novell Storage Manager policies.

Novell Vibe OnPrem 3.1

Novell Vibe OnPrem gives you a simple and powerful way to bring together the people, information and resources your teams need. With Vibe OnPrem, people from all over the world can work together very efficiently. Without needing IT help, workers can easily create their own ad hoc project teams and workspaces. They can identify and gather the team members who can contribute the right expertise, knowledge and value they need for their project.

Project leaders and team members can use Novell Vibe OnPrem workspaces to store, organize and share all information related to a specific project. This includes documents, ideas, plans, research, milestones, tasks, expected outcomes, work in progress, and more.

Novell Vibe OnPrem lets your teams connect data from different collaboration sources—including wikis, blogs, forums, e-mail, calendars, documents, and web pages—and aggregate information based on the needs of a specific project.

Novell Vibe OnPrem consolidates collaboration tools into one secure, powerfully indexed solution that lets team members work together more intelligently, creatively and productively.

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. Novell Sentinel Log Manager is the industry's first log management solution available as a software appliance. It's built with SUSE Studio™ so you're up and running in no time. Start taking advantage of Sentinel Log Manager's out-of-the box event collection capabilities and eliminate time-consuming maintenance processes with its self-updating.

Novell Sentinel Log Manager's distributed search capabilities can seamlessly search events on your local Sentinel Log Manager server and on all your other Sentinel Log Manager servers around the globe, providing immediate results at your fingertips.

Advanced Resources

Technical White Papers

This month's release includes 2 new white papers which are sure to help you sharpen your knowledge of Novell products and solutions:

  • Novell ZENworks 11 SCCM 2007R3 Keystrength White Paper Novell ZENworks can offer your business a long list of unique benefits and advantages. It is based on a new Novell ZENworks 11 platform that combines and integrates configuration, asset, patch, and endpoint security management for Windows and Linux desktops. It offers a single, modular architecture that maximizes flexibility and scalability, simplifies and speeds management throughout the device lifecycle, minimizes processing demands on managed clients, reduces bandwidth consumption for management processes and uses standards-based protocols to seamlessly integrate with your choice of user directory and object database. It lets you manage systems based on users identities, roles, groups and locations, so IT can work hand-in-glove with the company's business priorities and policies. Finally, it gives you a secure, web-based console for unified control over all your management tasks—from virtually anywhere. This white paper is a capability based comparison between Novell® ZENworks® 11 and Microsoft® System Center 2007 Configuration Manager R3.

  • How to Use the Subscription Management Tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 will help you to leverage the Subscription Management Tool for SUSE® Linux Enterprise. The Subscription Management Tool for SUSE® Linux Enterprise allows enterprise customers to optimize the management of SUSE Linux Enterprise software updates and subscription entitlements. It establishes a proxy system for Novell® Customer Center with repository and registration targets. This helps you centrally manage software updates within the firewall on a per-system basis, while maintaining your corporate security policies and regulatory compliance The tool allows you to provision updates for all of your devices running a product based on SUSE Linux Enterprise. By downloading these updates only once and distributing them throughout the enterprise, you can set more restrictive firewall policies and, where applicable, avoid significant network usage stemming from repeated downloads of the same updates by each device. The tool is fully supported and available as a download to customers with an active SUSE Linux Enterprise product subscription.

Support Resources

Latest Files and Patches

The August shipment includes 15 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 August shipment here is just a small sample of the new and updated documentation included:

  • Vibe OnPrem 3.1 / Novell Vibe OnPrem 3.1 Administration Guide

  • ZENworks 10 Configuration Management / ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Command Line Utilities Reference

  • Storage Manager 3.0 / Novell Storage Manager 3.0 for Active Directory Administration Guide

  • PlateSpin Forge 3.0 / PlateSpin Forge 3.0 Appliance Setup and Administration Guide

New Support Knowledgebase Documents (TIDs)

Do you like to dig deeper? Then your August shipment will give you plenty of shovels. It includes 417 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 51 new Cool Solutions articles, which means you get 546 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 134 new YES Bulletins shipping in August? 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

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What's New and Upcoming

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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.

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