F.1 iCM in OES Environment

Traditionally iCM was used in the following methods:

F.1.1 iCM with Novell Client

In OES iPrint, when a user logs in to the corporate eDirectory using the Novell Client, the iCM settings are pushed to the user’s machine.

F.1.2 iCM without Novell Client

In iPrint Appliance, users cannot login directly using the Novell Client. This is because iPrint Appliance syncs only user names from the corporate eDirectory, but not the passwords. For iCM to work with iPrint Appliance, you can use one of the following methods:

  • Novell Client users continue to login to the existing corporate eDirectory instead of iPrint Appliance. This way, the existing OES server is used for desktop printing, and the iCM settings are available only in the source eDirectory.

    Limitation: In this method, the iCM settings are fetched only from the source eDirectory. Any iCM setting changes made on iPrint Appliance are not applied.

  • Use iCM without Novell Client. In this method, the local Windows/AD credentials must match the eDirectory credentials. This method is suitable for an AD environment where users are synced from AD to the local eDirectory so that the credentials are automatically matched. For more information, see Section F.2, iCM with iPrint Appliance.

    Limitation: In this method, the iCM setting are fetched only from iPrint Appliance. iCM setting changes made on the existing corporate eDirectory must be manually added on iPrint Appliance.

NOTE:During migration from OES iPrint, iCM settings are not migrated to iPrint Appliance. Novell plans to fix this in a future iPrint Appliance release.