Administrator's Solutions Guide

NetWare^® 5.1 builds on the success of NetWare 5 to create the ideal network operating system for Internet-enabled businesses. NetWare 5.1 turns a server-class PC into a high-performance Internet server, providing connectivity not only among personal computers, printers, and mass storage devices, but also through the Web, including the Internet and company intranets and extranets.

NetWare 5.1 is a complete Web-based solution, comprised of NetWare 5 and the latest Support Pack. It is also bundled with services for the Internet and Microsoft* Office 2000. These services are beneficial both for companies with and without an Internet presence.

Going beyond file and print, NetWare 5.1 provides a stable infrastructure. To this it adds NDS^® and other management tools, and a Web server with all the Web-based tools and utilities, including Web publishing, application development, and office collaboration and productivity tools. It also includes powerful application services.

For users who want to leverage their NetWare sites and develop a corporate intranet presence, NetWare 5.1 is the ideal environment for creating intranets, corporate storefronts, and departmental applications by integrating users, groups, and services with NDS.

NetWare 5.1 offers the following advantages:

• A complete platform for deploying critical Web applications.
• Helps customers address business needs by combining the most reliable, manageable, and efficient networking platform with Web-enabled application solutions based on open standards.
• Reduces administrative tasks and networking costs.
• Lets customers manage the entire network effectively, delivering an average 69% savings in management and administrative costs over servers that are not directory based.
• Based on NetWare 5, the most stable operating system, NetWare 5.1 offers proven reliability, scalability, performance, and security. And it is backed by the largest support infrastructure in the world.

There are many products, utilities, and services offered in NetWare 5.1, but the main piece they all depend on is NetWare 5, which offers the following benefits:

• A reputation as the best file/print/directory/e-mail server available
• The ZENworks^TM Starter Pack, which lets you configure, update, and maintain network workstations without leaving your desk
• NetWare over pure IP, plus the most innovative and powerful IP network management tools in the industry
• Novell^® Storage Services (NSS), which simplifies file services and storage administration, improving file access speed and expanding server storage capacity---both file size and number of files
• Novell Distributed Print Services^TM (NDPS^®), which streamlines and simplifies network print services administration

NetWare 5.1 includes the following components:

• Novell Distributed Print Services (NDPS)
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• Novell Internet Access Server (NIAS)
• Storage Management Services (SMS)
• Catalog Services
• WAN Traffic Manager
• Public Key Infrastructure Services (PKIS)
• Novell Modular Authentication Service (NMAS)
• Novell International Cryptographic Infrastructure (NICI)
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Domain Host Control Protocol (DHCP)

NetWare 5.1 offers many utilities and features to complete its Web offering. These include:

• NetWare Enterprise Web Server
  • Novell Directory Services Web Management
  • Novell SQL Connector
  • Virtual directory support
  • Virtual server support
  • ~HomeDir support
  • Servlet Gateway 2.0
  • NSP + NDODB (support for ASP, ADO programs)
  • Cluster management (ability to manage groups of NetWare 5.1 servers running Web, news, virtual, and multiple Web server instances)
  • WebMon (Web server monitoring utility)
  • WebDAV NSAPI extension (for working with Microsoft Office 2000)
  • Novell Script

• NetWare FTP Server
• NetWare News Server
• NetWare Management Portal^TM
• NetWare Web Search Server
• NetWare MultiMedia Server
• Novell JVM 1.1.7b
• NDS 8 (Internet Directory Services)

Compliance with and inclusion of popular products and standards in NetWare 5.1 allow you to use your favorite tools to create solutions. The following third-party products are also included:

NetWare 5.1 provides file, print, application, and directory services as well as many back-end services that support changing client applications. NetWare 5.1 includes the following benefits:

• Provides an open standards Web development platform
• Leverages the Microsoft client Web development tools and back-end services
• Provides a set of open standards collaborative services
• Provides a Java application server platform
• Includes Office 2000 publishing compatibility
• Offers built-in support for third-party authoring tools with FTP services integrated into the NetWare Enterprise Web Server and scripting components
• Provides improved Web development options with support for JSP, JDBC, ASP, ODBC, and Microsoft development tools
• Allows users to manage Web-based content and make it secure
• Enables integrators and Information Technology (IT) teams to more easily deploy vertical solutions integrated with popular development tools and standard languages
• Makes every NetWare server a repository for Web server content, making the it more valuable in an intranet environment

NetWare 5.1 addresses all of the needs of today's networks by providing not only a platform, but also an entire infrastructure upon which companies can build powerful networks. Solutions based on NetWare 5.1 can range from simple to complex, and provide basic networking services to complete Web-based applications.The power behind NetWare 5.1 comes from its efficiency, performance, fault-tolerance, interoperability, compatibility, and manageability. And it provides a complete tool set for developers.

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