NALalyse v1.2

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In Brief

Quickly sanity check, document, search & report on ZENworks NAL objects.

Vitals

Updated:	14 Dec 2005
File Size:	17MB
License:	Free
Download:	http://www.johnnyfoster.com/Downloads/NALalyse/NALalyse_1-2.exe
Home Page:	http://www.johnnyfoster.com/Downloads_NALalyse.htm
Publisher:	John Foster

Disclaimer

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Details

ZENworks 3.2/4.01

Update details:

As well as allowing NALalyse to correctly handle Trees with aliased OUs, this release also adds a little more functionality, improved reporting and a plethora of minor bug fixes and cosmetic improvements, including:

• The ability to filter the Issue reports by particular issue types
• The ability to save the current application selections for use another time
• Direct hyper-linking from the FIL file reports to Microsoft DLL help or Google
• High-lighting of user specified files on Issues reports
• Even greater resilience, with improved error logging
• Horizontal scroll bars now behave as expected on all reports!
• A multitude of other small bug fixes and cosmetic tweaks
• Fully backwards compatible with existing NALalyse 1.1 databases

General Details:

NALalyse allows Novell ZENworks administrators to quickly sanity check, search and document ZENworks for Desktops Network Application Launcher (NAL) objects through-out a whole Tree – its sophisticated rule-base detects dozens of NAL configuration issues, including unintended capture and distribution of machine specific registry and file data such as temp files, pre-fetch files, Anti-virus logs, DHCP assigned data, Explorer MRU entries and browser history and cache entries.

NALalyse also identifies applications that inappropriately distribution system DLLs, have no associations, are slow to distribute or deviate from Novell best practices.

Along with providing detailed reports of NAL issues and potential resolutions, various other reports aid documentation and provide detailed information on application attributes, associations, 'fingerprints', run orders, macros, flags and more.

NALalyse is also capable of quickly searching hundreds of NAL objects within minutes, identifying applications distributing specific registry entries, files, INI & Text entries etc. great for tracking down applications trampling over system files and causing 'Windows File Protection' events.

Along with free form searching, pre-defined searches allow you to quickly and easily identify specific categories of information within applications such as all the 'IP addresses', 'web addresses' or 'executables'

Screen shots and more detailed information, including installation pre-requisites and release notes are available at http://www.johnnyfoster.com/Downloads_NALalyse.htm.

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Reader Comments

• Outstanding utility. This has saved me many hours of cleanup and improved effeciency of my NAL applications.
• NALalyse not only provides a level of detailing your ZENworks implementation that ZENworks itself does not provide, but also includes object analysis, and it this is provided for FREE, which is extraordinary. John Foster has created something truly unique and tremendously useful.
• Absolutely excellent tool! Works great with ZEN7
• Perfect Tool, NAL Documentation could be so easy. Thomas
• Very nice tool.
• Very Cool Tool. Finally scans the whole tree. M U S T H A V E !!!!
• Fantastic Product!!! - error with container alias' though, but hey it is only the first release with tree scanning :)
• Super Cool, this functionality is VERY similar to other Pro packaging products, Installshield, WISE etc.
• I have been WAITING for a tool like this. Easy install, easy use, able to fully document my NAL apps in a way that I can query.
• This has helped me check hundreds of application objects. This program found incorrect registry settings which I missed. Use as a QA before putting applications into a production environment.
• With this tool, makes application snapshots more detailed and we could correct potential errors imediately, Awesome tool.!!!.