Iowa/Nebraska Novell Technical Blast
John Bezy, Novell Iowa/Nebraska Systems Engineer
Vol 3, No 2 - 2/1/01
** High Priority **
Technical Tips
Having Problems with ZEN3 AWI?
ZENworks for Desktop v3 has the Auto Workstation Import feature. If you
are having problems getting it to work, check out this TID. It's VERY
good for troubleshooting AWI: http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/tidfinder.cgi?10056752
ZENworks 3 CBT
Looking for the Computer Based Training program for ZfD3? Should be
available in early February.
InPlace Upgrades
Getting ready to start doing some inplace upgrades? If not done correctly
you might encounter some abend problems during the upgrade. Check out
TIDs 2957541
and 2857421.
Both of these patches must be installed for a successful in-place upgrade.
AntiVirus Scanning on your Cluster Volumes?
Norton (Symantec) AntiVirus Corporate Edition (NAV CE) 7.5 is the product
for you. Check it out at http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/content/productlink.cfm#0
Speaking of Clustering. Why Would You Need It?
Here's What's Wrong At EBay - InternetWeek
EBay's persistent site failures stem from a lack of coordinated IT planning
and a centralized database and storage structure that creates a single
point of failure, insiders and experts say.
The series of mishaps that led to eBay's 11-hour site crash on Jan. 3
was reminiscent of 15 similar outages between August 1998 and November
1999, including one in June 1999 that made the popular auction site unreachable
for 22 hours.
Five years after the site's launch, the company hasn't installed redundant
storage hardware to take over if the main storage system fails, said
one former eBay staff member who asked not to be identified. The IT department
alerted management to the risk of storage failure a year ago and recommended
an upgrade to redundant storage arrays, but the expense wasn't approved,
the source said.
What's more, eBay's application architecture makes it difficult to move
to a more resilient load-balanced server farm. EBay wouldn't elaborate
on a public statement it made on its Web site.
Mitch Wagner and Ted Kemp
http://update.internetweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eB2w0BdvYm0V30ChpV
Novell Single Sign-on Web Seminar
Join Novell for a free eSecurity Web Seminar to learn how Single Sign-on
can help you build your eBusiness quickly and securely. This Single Sign-on
Seminar lasts one hour and is packed with useful information that can
safeguard your business. Best of all, you can attend from the comfort
of your office. Simply register for one of the three dates at http://www.novellsso.com.
First event is this afternoon....
Benefits
BrainShare- NUI Discount?
NUI Local Group Members Discount to BrainShare Salt Lake - Limited offer
Plans are underway for the biggest, best BrainShare yet in Salt Lake
City, Utah March 18-23 2001.
Novell has offered NUI a special discount of 20% for the first 100 NUI
Local Group Members to sign up for BrainShare Salt Lake (20% off of the
Early Bird Registration price of $1395 by February 15)
If you are a member of a local NUI group and would like to take advantage
of this special offer, use the RSVP code NUIMEMBER. Registration began
December 1, 2000 http://www.novellbrainshare.com/portal/controller/home
You must be a member of a local NUI group and you must use this code
in order to receive the 20% discount. The discount cannot be made retroactive
if you have already registered for BrainShare.
REMEMBER, ONLY THE FIRST 100 NUI MEMBERS REGISTERING UNDER THIS CODE
ARE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE THE 20% DISCOUNT.
New WebSphere and JVM
www.novell.com/download
contains the new WebSphere on NetWare Std. Edition v3.5 and JVM 1.2.2.
Check in the NetWare section for these downloads. They require NetWare
5.1 and Support Pack 2. WebSphere Advanced Edition v3.5 is available
to customers for $7,500 per server license. We are posting a free developer
version of Advanced Edition on the NDK Feb. 7, 2001 for DeveloperNet
subscribers. See www.novell.com/websphere
for more information about WebSphere.
HIPAA News
In case you weren't looking, the Federal Register published the final
Privacy Rule for HIPAA recently. It is available electronically at http://aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/ppo
as well as at the web site of the Government Printing Office at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html.
Interesting quote from Infoworld article, Jan 15, 2001, page 50
- Up to the challenge? Novell struggles to become a Net services company...
"Smart IT managers have stopped dumping NetWare systems for Windows servers
- and the smartest ones have hung onto them - but Novell has to continue
recreating itself in order to survive."
Cooperative Agreement with EMC Announced
Novell and EMC have entered into a Cooperative Support Agreement. This
agreement allows Novell Support or EMC Support to directly contact the
other when a joint customer reports a problem that is related to the
other's products.
RedPlanIT Schedule
What is RedPlanIT? RedPlanIT is the opportunity for you to get some
eLearning through interactive webcasts. These free online seminars are
brought to you by a partnership between Novell and the Caliber Learning
Network. All you need to participate is a web browser! You have the choice
to attend the sessions live as they are presented or once the event have
been posted to the web site, anytime just by visiting the RedPlanIT web
site at http://www.redplanit.com
- note the spelling, it's not redplanet, but redplanit!
What are the topics and who presents them? The topic matter will vary
from session to session but for the most part will focus on Internet
technologies and Novell solutions. In some cases, they will be merely
tutorials and others will be solution/product info sessions. Presenters
will include Novell Systems Engineers, Consultants, Strategists, and
Account Managers. If slides are used for the presentation, they will be
downloadable for viewing. Sessions will typically last about an hour
and will be available in the archives for about 3 months.
To attend the sessions live, logon 15 minutes prior to online registration
for complete instructions on how to register and to view the event.
Feb 8 - Managing Windows NT/W2K in an NDS Environment
Feb 22 - NDS eDirectory for Linux/Solaris
Mar 8 - eGovernment Business Solutions
Viewable Archived Sessions:
Novell Career Pak now a standard product
The Novell Career Pak is a bundle of courses targeted at jumpstarting
students for a new career as an IT professional. Once a limited-time
promotion, this convenient, cost effective package prepares new entrants
to take both the Certified Novell Administrator (CNA) and CompTIA Network+
examinations. The Career Pak includes the following Novell Education
student kits:
Novell Merges CIP Certification with CIW Certification
Your Novell CIP credential allows you to obtain instant dual certification!
For complete information, see http://www.cip2ciw.com/
Cool URLs
Business Case: Cut Costs and Pocket the Savings with Directories - Network Magazine
http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/printableArticle?doc_id=NMG20001128S0002
NetWare v5.1 Sales Guide is at:
http://www.novell.com/info/collateral/docs/4820732.01/4820732.html
MIGRATING FROM GROUPWISE TO EXCHANGE?
(Source: Network World Fusion)
Your boss just asked what it will take to migrate from GroupWise to Exchange.
What will be the benefits of using Exchange instead of GroupWise? How
hard will it be to migrate? Besides more hardware and software, more
security risks, and a higher cost of ownership, check out http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=393234
Deployments of Windows 2000 Pro and Server are Good. What About AD??
http://www.gigaweb.com/Content/Adhoc/RAH-012001-00005.html
Is Your DNS Set Up Correctly? Ours Is..
I found the following article providing background information to MS's
DNS woes interesting, especially since Novell was mentioned as one of
the companies "doing it right".
http://securityportal.com/articles/dns20010130.html
Worried About the Security of Your Web Site??
There has been a spate of web site intrusions lately. How vulnerable
is your site? I won't even comment on all the problems (and negative
publicity) Microsoft has had lately. Here's an example.
Mass hack takes out govt sites
By: John Leyden
Source = http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16245.html
Posted: 22/01/2001 at 11:03 GMT
A hacking spree last weekend saw military and government Web sites defaced
on three continents in what its perpetrators claimed was the largest
mass defacement in the history of mankind.
The graffiti artists, known as Pentaguard, took out government Web sites
in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States and defaced them
with the same message. This consisted a profane rant full of hacker in-jokes,
bragging and references to beers, sexual desire for female hackers and
Ferraris.
Staff at Attrition.org, a Web site which tracks defacements, said it
was highly unusual for hackers to deface a large number of sites in different
nations in different time zones all at the same time. Attrition.org backed
up the claims of hackers about the scale of the attack and said it was
one of "the largest, most systematic defacements of worldwide government
servers on the Web" it had ever seen.
Paul Rogers, a security consultant at MIS Corporate Defence, said that
the attack was well planned. He said it was likely a number of people
were involved and that the attacks were automated and carried out against
sites whose security was found to be lax.
"All the UK sites were running NT and Microsoft IIS [web server] and
were hosted by ISPs - which raises the question of who's responsible
for the security of hosted sites," said Rogers, who said that all the
other sites were running similar configurations using IIS4.
"It's not difficult to retrieve list of government servers and look for
weaknesses with them using automated scanners," he added.
US sites targeted included the Republican Caucus for the California Legislature,
whose Web site has recently been shutdown because of the Californian
power crisis. The Alaskan Office for the Department of Interior Web site
was also hit, which points towards an overt political motive for the
defacements. This is because Bush nominee Gale Norton, who favours oil
prospecting in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, is set to be confirmed
as the US Secretary of the Interior.
The British defacements consisted of a series of small municipalities
as well as city and county governments - including a Web site set up
by the UK Government to spread information on mad cow disease.
Australian targets were mostly local authorities with the exception of
one attack, which took down a legislative search application for the
entire Commonwealth of Australia.
Pentaguard is well known in security circles and even prior to this attack
was the largest defacer of government and military Web sites, previous
targets included NASA and government Web sites in China, Kuwait, Georgia,
and even Vietnam. ®
STILL Seeking Information
We are looking for customers who are using Novell Products to do the
following functions. If you are, would you send me an e-mail describing
what you are doing? Also, unless you explicitly state in the e-mail
that you wouldn't mind if other customers contact you, your information
WILL NOT be shared with anyone... Thanks...
Sales Stuff----
FaxWare for GroupWise Promotion
Novell is pleased to announce a six-month sales promotion for the FaxWare
for GroupWise (from Tobit Software) product to VLA, CLA and MLA customers
in North and South America only. Customers can purchase a 500-user sku
for $7,500 MSRP from February 5, 2001 through July 31, 2001. Contact
Steve Ferrick or your local reseller for more information.
ZENworks for Servers Simplifies and Streamlines NetWare Management in eBusiness Environment
I thought this was interesting...
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/research/story.gsp?id=1228191&s=NOVL
Kaspersky Lab: Kaspersky Lab improves its anti-virus products for Novell
NetWare;
Kaspersky Lab announces the world's first anti-virus software integrated
into ConsoleOne
JAN 24, 2001, M2 Communications - Cambridge, UK -- Kaspersky Lab, an
international data-security software-development company, has announced
the release of Kaspersky Anti-Virus beta-version for Novell NetWare powered
by a new Java-based management system. The program also contains a set
of unique features that significantly extend a user's ability for the
centralised management of a network's anti-virus defence, thus decreasing
network administrator overheads and making the product the world's most
technically improved anti-virus system.
The main feature of the latest version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Novell
NetWare that distinguishes the product's leading position from amongst
other anti-viruses available on the market, is the full integration into
Novell's advanced management system - ConsoleOne. Based on Java technology,
ConsoleOne enables network engineers to perform centralised deployment
and control over the anti-virus defence of all NetWare servers installed
on the network and from any computer (including remote), regardless of
the operating system and processor type installed. The deep integration
into Novell Directory Service (NDS), enables the new Kaspersky Anti-Virus
management system to provide fast and effective real-time modification
of all the product's settings including, scheduling the product's operating
mode and remotely starting different modules of Kaspersky Anti-Virus.
Together with the management system that integrates into ConsoleOne,
the new version of Kaspersky Anti-virus for Novell NetWare also retains
network control using NWAdmin.
Among the program's other new features is support for the automatic downloading
of anti-virus database updates via the Internet, which prior to this
was performed manually or with a help of a third-party event scheduler.
Now the entire process is fully automated: in order to complete the updating
procedure, a user simply presses a single button or programs the built-in
scheduler as appropriate.
The updater is designed as an independent program module. This eliminates
the necessity to reboot the server each time the anti-virus database
is updated. Another of Updater's important features is the optimised
structure of the update distribution across the network. Kaspersky Anti-Virus
now downloads the updates from the Kaspersky Lab secured updates site
just once, and then simply distributes the updates to other NetWare servers
within the network using the internal connection. This feature reduces
the external traffic and decreases Internet-connection expenses.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Novell NetWare now supports multithreaded virus
scanning. This feature allows for an unlimited amount of files being
scanned simultaneously in real-time, with the amount being limited only
by the server's hardware configuration. The multithreaded virus scanning
essentially increases the overall efficiency of the entire network by
parallel processing the requests from many workstations at the same time.
"In 1999, Kaspersky Lab was the first to develop an anti-virus system
fully integrated into NDS and NWAdmin. The recent introduction of Kaspersky
Anti-Virus featuring the integration into ConsoleOne confirms our intended
course of providing users with comprehensive, cost-effective and centrally
managed anti-virus defence, and makes the product one of the world's
most technically advanced anti-viruses for Novell NetWare," said Denis
Zenkin, Head of Corporate Communications for Kaspersky Lab.
Kaspersky Lab encourages all concerned parties to join the Kaspersky
Anti-Virus for Novell NetWare beta-testing team. If you are interested
in becoming a beta-tester, please contact us at support@kaspersky.com.
About Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab Ltd. is a fast growing international privately owned data-security
software-development company with offices in Moscow (Russia), Cambridge
(UK) and Walnut Creek (United States). Founded in 1997, the company concentrates
its efforts on the development of world-leading anti-virus technologies
and software. Kaspersky Lab also provides free online security related
Internet information services. The company markets, distributes and supports
its software and services in more than 40 countries worldwide.
NetWare 5.0 to 5.1 CNE Self Study Kit Extended
Due to feedback from the CNE community, the US$100 price for the NetWare
5.0 to 5.1 self-study kit has been extended as a standard benefit to
all active, NetWare 5 CNEs. This kit is not intended for a certification
exam, it is simply to provide information for those who need to learn
the features found in NetWare 5.1. Purchasing is fast and easy no matter
where you live--worldwide. Visit your CNE community site, CNENET, at
http://cnenet.novell.com/cne/cert
to find out how to order from any region in the world.
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Trouble Incident Escalation
If you have an open support incident and it has been open for an unusually
long period of time, one of my functions is to help escalate the issue
inside Novell Tech Support. I will decide what the 'unusually long period
of time' is... If you have a support contract, your issue should be resolved
within days (resolved; depending on the level of the support contract,
someone should contact you within minutes/hours to start working on it.)
Without a support contract, you might face hours/days of waiting before
tech support can address your call. So, if you feel you need assistance,
send me an e-mail describing the incident, the incident number, and who
to contact. If you don't have an open incident, don't get me involved
until you do.
How to Get Tech Support
Want to see how some of our solutions work?
Check them out at the on-line demo city... http://democity.novell.com/staticindex.html
Due a Software Upgrade?
Here is how the process works.... You should receive an e-mail from Novell
Sales Operations stating you are entitled, as an upgrade protection customer,
the next upgrade for product XYZ... You should then go to the upgrade request
site at www.novell.com/licensing/upgfulfill
and fill in the appropriate lines and information. Your upgrade should then
be shipped second day.... BUT turnaround time is dependent on when the product
is actually available for FCS (First Customer Ship), which could be days or
weeks after the actual product announcement. If you are then having problems,
please let your IA/NE Novell team know so we can get involved.
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John Bezy
Novell Systems Engineer
Iowa/Nebraska
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