Traditional Novell Services on Both OES Platforms
Beginning with the release of Nterprise™ Linux Services and expanding with release of OES, Novell has included Linux versions of many Novell services that have traditionally been available only on NetWare®.
Critical Open Source Products on both OES Platforms
Novell has previously ported the most well known, network-critical open source products to NetWare—products such as OpenSSH and the Apache Web server. These open source products are, of course, already available on SLES 9. Therefore, a separate Novell port to Linux is unnecessary.
Table 3-1 summarizes the services and technology support available on each platform and the differences in the way these services are provided.
Although extensive, this list is not exhaustive. If you are interested in a service or technology not listed, or for documentation for listed services, see Tasks and Topics on the OES Documentation Web site.
Table 3-1 OES Services Available on OES LINUX and OES NetWare
|
Service |
OES LINUX |
OES NetWare |
|---|---|---|
|
AFP (Apple File Protocol) |
No |
Yes - NFAP |
|
Apache Web Server |
Yes - Standard Linux |
Yes - NetWare port of open source product |
|
Archive and Version Services (Novell) |
No |
Yes |
|
Backup (SMS) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Clustering |
Yes |
Yes |
|
CIFS (Windows File Services) |
Yes - Samba |
Yes - NFAP |
|
DFS (Novell Distributed File Services) |
No |
Yes |
|
DHCP |
Yes |
Yes |
|
DNS |
Yes |
Yes |
|
eDirectory 8.7.3 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
eDirectory Certificate Server |
Yes |
Yes |
|
eGuide (White Pages) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
FTP Server |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Health Monitoring Services |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Identity Manager |
Yes |
Yes |
|
iPrint |
Yes |
Yes |
|
IPX™ (Internetwork Packet Exchange™) from Novell |
No |
Yes |
|
iSCSI |
Yes |
Yes |
|
LDAP Server for eDirectory |
Yes |
Yes |
|
MySQL |
Yes - Standard Linux |
Yes - NetWare port of open source product |
|
NCP™ Server |
Yes |
Yes |
|
NetStorage |
Yes |
Yes |
|
NFS |
Yes - Native to Linux |
Yes - NFAP |
|
NICI (Novell International Cryptography Infrastructure) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
NMAS™ (Novell Modular Authentication Services) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Novell Client™ for Windows and Linux support |
Yes - through NCP Server for Linux or Novell Samba |
Yes |
|
Novell Cluster Services™ |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Novell iFolder® 2. x |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Novell Licensing Services |
Yes |
|
|
NSS (Novell Storage Services™) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Nsure® Audit |
Not included with OES. However, the Novell Audit 2.0 Starter pack is available for download at no cost on Novell.com. |
Yes |
|
NTPv3 |
Yes |
Yes |
|
OpenSSH |
Yes - Standard Linux |
Yes - NetWare port of open source product |
|
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) |
Yes - eDirectory enabled |
No - eDirectory authentication is pervasive on NetWare. |
|
Pervasive.SQL |
No (Available at http://www.pervasive.com) |
Yes |
|
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) |
Yes - eDirectory |
Yes - eDirectory |
|
Printing |
See iPrint. |
See iPrint. |
|
QuickFinder™ |
Yes |
Yes |
|
RADIUS |
Yes - Novell RADIUS |
Yes - Novell RADIUS |
|
Samba |
Yes - Novell customized |
|
|
Search (QuickFinder) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
SLP |
Yes - SLES 9 |
Yes - Novell |
|
Software RAIDS (NSS volumes) |
Yes (0 and 1) |
Yes (0, 1, 5) |
|
Storage Management Services™ (SMS) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
TCP/IP |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Timesync NLM™ |
No - See Time Synchronization. |
Yes |
|
Tomcat |
Yes - Standard Linux |
Yes - NetWare port |
|
NetWare Traditional File System |
No |
Yes |
|
Virtual Office (Collaboration) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
WAN Traffic Manager (for eDirectory) |
No |
Yes |