Connection Magazine Archive
2006 — by Month
Fourth Quarter 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 If your current desktop migration plans are leading you on a direct path for iceberg-infested waters, it might be time to consider alternative routes. Implementing a proof of concept and pilot program can enable you to find out how SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop can take your enterprise on a course that leads to lower desktop costs, while improving usability, productivity and security.
- Tech Talk 2 These innovations reduce cost and risk by significantly improving interoperability with unmodified guest operating systems. And with the solid foundation of Intel Virtualization Technology in place, SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 with the integrated Xen VMM is ready to change the lookâÃÂÃÂand more important, the operationâÃÂÃÂof the data center.
- Tech Talk 3 If your company is looking for an alternative to the high price of continuing to deploy and maintain Microsoft machines, give SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop a good hard look. You can deploy it into your existing environment with little to no changes to your current infrastructure.
- Tech Talk 4 This article outlines a select group of file systems, disk formats and storage protocols as they pertain to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. we’ll also cover the storage capabilities of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as they pertain to iSCSI.
- Tech Talk 5 In this final article of the series, we’ll build on the transition of desktop applications to open source from the third article and finish the migration story by discussing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and how to effectively make the final transition from Windows to Linux.
- Tech Talk 6 This article will describe how to use the utility to migrate GroupWise domains, Internet Agents and WebAccess agents to Linux.
- Tech Talk 7 In this case study, we’ll help you explore common tools used in our IS&T engineering tools team; however, the same tools are applicable for any type of developer or language of choice and widely used in most areas of Novell.
- Tech Talk 8 For this article, the third in this series, I put OO Writer to the test, executing the first of several planned tasks.
- Tech Talk 9 Data center managers are looking for a variety of ways to address dilemmas. One of the key ways is server consolidation using virtualization.
A Honeypot/IDS Combo
Departments
- Lead Off We’re focusing on broadening the applicability of virtualization within the enterprise data center in safe and secure ways. Our solutions will leverage open source and open standards, enable you to implement changes at your own pace to make sure you see results every step of the way.
- Bottom Line As the momentum of Linux adoption continues to grow along the product life cycle curve, Novell and its partners (including the open source community) are accelerating that growth. At the same time, all are working to lower an organization’s Investment cost of Linux while raising the Return. In most cases, when including all the contributing factors of the ROI formula, the ROI of a migration to Linux makes a lot of sense.
- Proof Point A popular Internet retailer needs a high-performance IT infrastructure to manage millions of Web requests each day. Overstock.com improved its ability to manage its business in real time with a Teradata system running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in a 64-bit environment
- Trend Talk Whether you want to rip, organize, listen, burn, import, share, sync to your iPod (or other portable music device) or create a playlist—you can perform all these tasks with Banshee.
- Fine Print You have officially arrived as a card-carrying Linux Desktop user. What next? It’s now time to tune your environment for maximum productivity.
- Train Trax Whether you choose the individual (online) or comprehensive (on-site) assessment, the Novell Technical Skills Assessment helps you maximize your software investment and find the courses that will be most beneficial to you and your organization.
- Market Start The Astaro Security Gateway integrates nine security technologies covering all aspects of security including Network (firewall, VPN and intrusion protection) Web (spyware protection, virus protection for the Web and content filtering), and E-mail (virus protection for e-mail, spam protection and phishing protection).
- Brain Share Whether you’re a newcomer or a veteran attendee, Novell BrainShare 2007—scheduled for March 18-23 in Salt Lake City—promises to showcase exciting new solutions and technologies that will keep you on the leading edge of innovation and enterprise growth.
November 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 Microsoft and Novell have announced a broad collaboration on Windows and Linux interoperability and support. Two industry leaders collaborate--and it’s IT shops who stand to benefit.
- Tech Talk 2 In this article, steps are outlined to begin the transition to open source or more flexible, cost-effective applications on Windows. It is focused on gathering application data, building your application transition map and developing your application roll out strategy starting with open source equivalents to existing proprietary applications that run on a Windows desktop, such as OpenOffice.org 2.0, which is included in the Novell Open Workgroup Suite.
- Tech Talk 3 In this article, we’ll show how Novell drastically decreased the budget amount for database software and maintenance and still got the job done.
- Tech Talk 4 In this article, Kendra Dalin shares her first impressions of OpenOffice.org Writer (OO Writer), the suite’s word processor.
- Tech Talk 5 ATT Live 2006 is a 3-day technical conference packed with advanced technical classes on every Novell product you can imagine. Novell Training Services is excited about this year’s conference because of the many new sessions and topics that will be making their training debut.
- Tech Talk 6 Hines Corporation modernized its IT infrastructure with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and consolidated its servers by 50 percent. Linux also helped the company reduce its ERP implementation costs by an estimated 70 percent.
- Intrusion Detection System (IDS) Rules-Part Two
October 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 The second article in a four-part series on the Novell Open Workgroup Suite, this article focuses on the migration of servers and workgroup services to Linux, based on the technology included in the Novell Open Workgroup Suite.
- Tech Talk 2 In August 2004, Novell IS&T received an executive mandate to switch to a single, corporate open source bug-tracking system for employees and partners around the globe. Learn how Novell implemented Bugzilla and how your company can too.
- Tech Talk 3 This is the first article in a series that shows you why the OpenOffice.org suite is probably worth considering. This office suite is the leading open source competitor to Microsoft Office and other proprietary suites. And it’s FREE! Read on!
- Intrusion Detection System (IDS) Rules
Third Quarter 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 Without further adieu, let me introduce you to the next generation desktop OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, and all the great open source software that accompanies it.
- Tech Talk 2 In this article, we’ll give you some helpful hints and things we have tried that you should consider when looking for open source code to solve your business needs.
- Tech Talk 3 So closely tied to its users, OpenOffice.org is regularly improved by contributors such as Novell, incorporating recommendations made by its user community. OpenOffice.org 2.0 is truly a revised version you can applaud!ÃÂÃÂ
- Tech Talk 4 In this article, we’ll give you a recipe for using ZENworks Linux Management to distribute AppArmor security profiles to multiple servers within your organization, and talk about some of the new security features in development for AppArmor.
- Tech Talk 5 this article will give you practical ideas on leveraging specific components of the Novell Open Workgroup suite to save money, increase flexibility and position you to take advantage of a full, open standards-based solution when the time is right.
- Tech Talk 6 This article reviews ITIL best practices and summarizes how ZENworks Asset Management functionality can be mapped to specific ITIL guidance in these areas.
- Tech Talk 7 Because of its ability to tie roles to entitlements, track those associations and prevent unauthorized provisioning, an identity-based asset management process is far superior to existing license compliance initiatives. As interest in this concept grows, look to NovellâÃÂàa leader in enterprise-wide resource and identity managementâÃÂÃÂto champion and develop the innovations to support it
- Tech Talk 8 Novell Identity Manager is already the leading identity solution in the market, now Designer lets you leverage Identity Manager to create identity solutions more easily than ever before.
- Wireshark (formerly Ethereal)
Departments
- Lead Off Linux and open source. It’s a big topic right now in our world; and it’s getting bigger. So, if you’re concerned with moving your business forward, it’s time you really take a serious look at how open source software can improve your business.
- Bottom Line With open source as a centerpiece of your IT strategy, you will find yourself gaining business agility faster than your competition, and releasing yourself from dependency on vendors who have failed to deliver.
- Proof Point By moving from Windows to Novell Open Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and virtualization, Stonebridge Bank consolidated its servers by 83 percent and reduced its costs per server by nearly 90 percent.
- Trend Talk Novell Open Audio is a podcast that started in early 2006 under the direction of longtime Novell technology enthusiast Ted Haeger. Novell Connection magazine interviewed Ted Haeger about Novell Open Audio and what other projects he is currently working on.
- Fine Print In this article, we give you some important stuff to commit to memory about how to manage those servers. We also have some great tips and tricks to help you resolve issues with GroupWise without resorting to technical support.
- Market Start VoiceRD is fully integrated up and down the complete stack: hardware; operating systems and security; a PBX appliance; and lateral integration with customer management, enterprise collaboration and complete content management.
- Market Start Novell is working nonstop to make the advantages of the Open Enterprise realistic and practical for all types and sizes of business.
- Back to Basics This article offers pointers about what you can do and to what or whom you can turn to increase your improved but still nascent understanding of Linux.
August 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 Worried about identity? Then learn how Novell Integration Manager 6 can remove the complexities of traditional integration approaches with the aid of an extremely powerful and intuitive development environment (IDE).
- Tech Talk 2 This eighth article, in a nine-part series, discusses additional tools and command-line utilities available to monitor the Linux operating system.
- Man-in-the-Middle ARP Interceptions
July 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 Have you ever gotten a call at 2 a.m. because a server had gone down and your employees on the other side of the world couldn’t access their data? Read how Novell’s own IS&T Messaging Team moved GroupWise to Open Enterprise Server on Linux to avoid calls like that.
- Tech Talk 2 Installing iFolder on Open Enterprise Server SP2 for Linux? Bart, a saavy Novell Connection reader, spells it out step by step. He swears he can do it with his eyes closed now. And he got a $250 Amazon gift certificate just to tell us how!
- Tech Talk 3 Don’t struggle deciding how much control to hand over to your end users and their devices. Sanctuary provides the critical components you need to solve problems associated with endpoint executables and devices and put the control back in your hands while giving end users the flexibility they demand.
- Tech Talk 4 This article is the second of two articles designed to increase your understanding of the Linux file system. To continue this discussion, this article provides basic information about these topics: Linux disk partitions, Novell Stroages services (NSS) on Linux, Linux file system access control, NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) server and file access for Linux, and Native client file access for Linux.
- Reconnaissance on an Email Header
June 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 Is compliance an issue for you? ZENworks Asset Management helps ensure you are using what you have installed and not paying for unused licenses, all the while keeping you in compliance with the law.
- Tech Talk 2 While all of us want a little place for our "stuff," no one wants the headaches that come with traditional storage management. Novell Storage Manager 2 solves storage management headaches and automates your storage management tasks.
- Tech Talk 3 Novell launches its ground-breaking Bandit Project! Bandit is an open source project chartered with developing identity services that unify disparate identity systems and provides a consistent approach to securing and managing identity.
- Tech Talk 4 This article is the first of two articles designed to better your understanding of Linux file systems. Working toward this end, this article touches upon these four topics concerning the Linux file systems: System choices, System structure, File facts, and Commands and permissions.
- Reconnaissance on a Person/Company
Second Quarter 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 Novell Connection caught up with Dr. Jaffe at this year’s Linux World Expo in Boston and asked him about open source and Linux on the desktop.
- Tech Talk 2 As with any new release, the server component of the platform, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, has of course more features than its predecessors, but there are three significant additions to the server that go a long way toward pleasing the ever-growing demand for more: AppArmor Application Security, Storage Foundation, and Server Virtualization.
- Tech Talk 3 Novell customers will find that SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is the very best desktop for their organization. It’s fully conversant with the complete suite of Novell infrastructure and workspace solutions
- Tech Talk 4 The Mono development framework included in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 provides all the tools necessary for developers to build high performance cross-platform applications for both the server and desktop while preserving investments in expertise, code and existing hardware.
- Tech Talk 5 If you have a highly distributed mobile workforce that requires real-time access to critical and strategic application data, PIM data and e-mail, then GroupWise Mobile Server is a must.There’s no better way to extend the comprehensive, cross-platform collaboration services of GroupWise to the rapidly expanding mobile workforce.
- Tech Talk 6 With broad new capabilities and state-of-the-art components, Novell Access Manager 3 is an advanced solution that effectively secures your infrastructure, prevents information theft and protects the privacy of people inside and outside your organization with the ease and simplicity required in today’s fastpaced, competitive business environment.
- Tech Talk 7 ZENworks Linux Management—Dell Edition simplifies IT operations, offering singleconsole management of Dell server hardware configuration, firmware, drivers, the Linux operating system and applications.
- Tech Talk 8 According to postings on the Department of Education Web site (doe.state.in.us), Novell agreed to work with education software suppliers to certify .NET applications on Mono.
- Tech Talk 9 NMAS is an extensible security product that offers you an easy way to centrally manage multifactor authentication methods across your network. With NMAS, users can authenticate to the network via something they know (password), something they have (a smart card: Novell Certificate Login), and/or something they are (their fingerprint).
- Tech Talk 10 Sentinel Mainframe Connect captures security and compliance activities directly from mainframe computers and correlates the information with other IT security and compliance events across the enterprise, an unmatched capability unique in the industry.
- Reconnaisance with WHOIS
Departments
- Lead Off If you’re not currently running an open enterprise, now’s the perfect time to start. Let us help you implement the mix of open source and proprietary software that works for your organization to create your open enterprise.
- Bottom Line SUSE Linux Enterprise is the first offering designed specifically to meet the needs and requirements of open enterprises. It’s a comprehensive software platform that provides all the tools and capabilities businesses need to build a new kind of healthy, successful open enterprise environmentâÃÂÃÂfrom the data center to the desktop.
- Proof Point Moving to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server gives Casas Bahia the kind of reliability and flexibility required by a retail giant. An open platform helped the company avoid the $8 million cost of a proprietary solution, as well as any increased hardware, software and training costs which would be significant for a company of its size.
- Trend Talk With the growing popularity of Linux, Novell is committed to give students hands-on Linux training and real-world scenarios to prepare them for competitive, successful IT careers
- Fine Print Here’s a do-it-yourself guide to making your GroupWise Home View your dream home.
- Suite Deal As the number of organizations worldwide adding Linux to their network and office infrastructures continues to grow, the Novell Open Workgroup Suite provides an ideal way to meet their needs.
- Market Start The speed and scalability of PostgreSQL make it a natural choice for transactional applications of all kinds, and its implementation of advanced database features, such as triggers, views and stored procedures, is mature and stable.
- High Light During BrainShare 2006, Novell executives and engineers delivered several keynote addresses to standing-room-only crowds in the Salt Palace Convention Center.
- Train Trax Novell’s Train-the-Teacher course is free to NATPâÃÂÃÂaffiliated instructors who will teach Getting Started with Linux: Novell’s Guide to CompTIA’s Linux+ (Course 3060, v2.0) to their students.
- Back to Basics This article focuses on the server management tools that you use to remotely access and manage Open Enterprise Server for Linux.
April 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 Want to automate your installations of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server without touching every server? Here’s how you can automate unattended installations without using any media!
- Tech Talk 2 Want some help converting your NetWare skills to Linux? This fourth part of a nine-part series explains NetWare tasks and gives the functional equivalents on Open Enterprise Server for Linux.
- Signs of a Traffic Jam
March 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 You’re moving to SUSE Linux and get to install it on hundreds of systems. Right? Don’t worry! SUSE Linux Enterprise Server installation is fast, easy and automated with the AutoYaST tool.
- Tech Talk 2 Demystify the process of deploying and managing Open Enterprise Server for Linux with this third installment in a nine-part series that will help you bridge your NetWare skills to Open Enterprise Server for Linux.
- Examining TCP Window Technology, Faults and Warnings
First Quarter 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 ZENworks Asset Management reports on the full range of IT devices: servers and routers, desktops and handhelds—and the software running them. ZENworks Asset Management can scale to your environment—whether you have PCs at one location or all over the world.
- Tech Talk 2 This article discusses some of the advantages of HA services, and how to configure and test them. In particular, how to set up a redundant node to take over serving Web pages when the main node fails.
- Tech Talk 3 By allowing you to interact directly with Post Office Agents, the GroupWise Web Service enables you to easily and quickly create cross-platform solutions that make it simple for administrators and developers to view, manage and manipulate the information stored in users' mailboxes
- Tech Talk 4 With its broad focus on wireless synchronization, Novell has set out to provide exactly this level of adaptability. BES v4.0 for GroupWise is a great choice for connecting GroupWise to the most popular set of mobile devices in North America (and growing fast everywhere else).
- Tech Talk 5 Novell has done it again! It has further enhanced its support for, and commitment to, Linux and the open source movement by sponsoring a new project: openSUSE.
- Tech Talk 6 With the innovative solutions in Identity Manager 3, Novell can help your business gain the agility required for future growth, while retaining the world-class security you've come to expect from Novell.
- Tech Talk 7 With features enhancing everything from collecting, monitoring, filtering and notifying of event data, Novell Audit is definitely a good thing—made even better.
- Tech Talk 8 SecureLogin 6.0 has everything you need to take back control of your networks while lowering your costs and increasing the security of your systems as well as the productivity of your users. It also facilitates and simplifies conformance to government and corporate regulatory requirements.
- Tech Talk 9 More than 6,000 attendees will discover, or rediscover, why BrainShare is one of the industry’s premiere venues for learning, exploring and networking. They will remember exactly why attending BrainShare is such a smart business decision. They will experience one of the most fun and distinctive technology conferences in the world.
- Tech Talk 10 Learn how to develop and deploy a Standard Operating Environment using Novell ZENworks 7 and the ENGL Imaging Toolkit.
- Ethereal’s Expert System and SEQ/ACK Analysis
Departments
- Lead Off As your identity is important to you, your customers' identities are important to them. Are you protecting your customers' identity information?
- Bottom Line Identity theft is on the rise at an alarming rate, sitting at the top of the Federal Trade Commission annual list of consumer fraud filings for the fifth year in a row.When the FTC categorized the 635,173 complaints received in 2004, 246,570 were identity theft reports and 388,603 were fraud complaints.
- Proof Point By standardizing and consolidating its infrastructure with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, ITV has created a high performing and resilient environment. The organization is seeing substantial performance gains with several of its mission-critical systems and has close to and in excess of 99.999 percent uptime for its production environment.
- Trend Talk Novell has the simplest virtualization policy as well as pricing. Its virtualization licensing policy has been in effect since August 2004 when SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 was introduced, and using one or more virtual images on a physical processor or server does not alter the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 licensing policy.
- Fine Print The Monitor for Novell GroupWise 7 has some cool new features. Let’s take a look at a few tips so you can get the most out of the improvements.
- Market Start MySQL Network includes 24x7 technical support services that ensure your production database applications are always available.
- Market Start The Pentaho Business Intelligence Project is an ongoing effort by the open source community to provide organizations with best-in-class solutions for their enterprise BI needs.
- Training Day Attend a Novell training course and discover how Novell Identity Manager can help maximize your business.
- Back to Basics This article continues to increase your Linux comfort level by introducing these fundamentals: Understanding runlevels, Logging in and out, Using the Linux desktop, Using the Linux shell, Understanding and viewing processes, and Shutting down and restarting the server.
January 2006
Features
- Tech Talk 1 Novell ZENworks Patch Management closes those security holes before hacking, compliance or infringement issues can jeopardize your infrastructure. Available for Windows, Linux, NetWare, Macintosh, AIX, Solaris HP-UX and more, ZENworks Patch Management allows you to quickly determine what patches are right for your organization and automatically apply them across your enterprise.
- Tech Talk 2 This article is the first in a nine-part series designed to help you bridge your NetWare skills to Open Enterprise Server for Linux. The series seeks to demystify the process of deploying and managing Open Enterprise Server for Linux. To this end, many of the articles in this series demonstrate how to accomplish the administrative tasks on Open Enterprise Server for Linux that you’re accustomed to performing on NetWare.
- IO Graphing