1.1 New in Version 4.1

Direct Database Access

Historically, the NSMAdmin administrative interface has exclusively used XML-RPC to perform all interactions with the NSM Engine. As a means of improving performance, beginning with the release of version 4.1, Novell Storage Manager for Active Directory is transitioning from that model and moving towards one that of directly accessing certain resources from the SQL Server database.

Direct database access is now conducted for the following:

  • Pending Events

  • Pending Event Properties

  • Object History

  • GSR Collector Data

For more information, see Section 3.1, NSMAdmin and Database Access.

GSR Collector

Introduced in a previous version, the GSR (Global Statistics Report) Collector has been significantly enhanced in version 4.1 to perform new analysis and reporting including:

  • Anomaly Analysis

  • Global Statistics

  • Histories

  • Policy-based Path Distribution

For more information on the GSR Collector, including configuration information, see Section C.0, GSR Collector.