ConsoleOne

Features and Benefits

ConsoleOne™ is a free, versatile Java utility that you can use to manage your network and its resources. An essential component of many Novell® products—including Novell eDirectory™, NetWare® 5.1, and ZENworks™ for Servers—ConsoleOne has a user-friendly interface and can run on a Windows workstation or a NetWare server.

ConsoleOne offers features not found in legacy NetWare and eDirectory administrative utilities. You can use it to swiftly expand and browse vast eDirectory trees or to generate a variety of eDirectory reports. ConsoleOne will save you time and money because it reliably consolidates processes that would traditionally require multiple steps.

Benefits

• Manage the latest Novell products from either a Windows workstation or a NetWare server
• Modify properties of multiple files, folders, objects and volumes simultaneously
• Quickly browse large eDirectory trees
• Manage user accounts and administer rights
• Extend the eDirectory schema
• Configure role-based administration
• Manage eDirectory partitions and replicas
• Generate eDirectory reports
• Salvage and purge deleted files on NetWare volumes
• Support multiple languages
• Create rights assignments and volume space restrictions through a template
• Extend objects with auxiliary classes

Manage the latest Novell products from either a Windows workstation or a NetWare server

Easier than ever, ConsoleOne administration can now be performed for the latest Novell products from either a Windows workstation or a NetWare server. ConsoleOne is replacing legacy, Windows-only management tools such as NetWare Administrator (NWAdmin) and eDirectory Manager™. For some of the newest products—including Novell Single Sign-On and Novell Certificate Server™—ConsoleOne is the only viable administration tool.

Modify properties of multiple files, folders, objects and volumes simultaneously

Have you ever wished for a way to streamline network administration? ConsoleOne contains property pages that you can use to edit many different files, folders, objects, and volumes simultaneously. Property pages list the attributes, or properties, that describe the characteristics of certain files. You can modify these properties en masse by selecting and deselecting attributes on the property pages and applying them to multiple files, folders, objects, and volumes. Because this feature enables you to make broad changes with a single step, it minimizes redundant administration, saving you significant amounts of time and money.

Quickly browse large eDirectory trees

As your company grows, so does your network. Legacy management tools cannot quickly and smoothly navigate the large directory trees characteristic of eDirectory 8 and Novell eDirectory. Some of these trees contain hundreds of thousands of objects. ConsoleOne is the only management utility that can swiftly expand a vast eDirectory tree and make it easily accessible. In a recent test, ConsoleOne took only two seconds to expand eDirectory containers that held 50,000 objects.

Manage user accounts and administer rights

Setting up an eDirectory user account is traditionally a multi-step process: you create the user object and then set properties that control the user's login procedure (e.g., where login can occur and what types of information are valid). Once login procedures are established, you set properties to control the user's network computing environment. With ConsoleOne you can use a template object to facilitate this process. A template object defines user object properties ahead of time and can be applied to a large number of users.

Login scripts are another valuable management feature of ConsoleOne. Used to speed user access to frequently used resources, a login script is a list of commands that executes when a user logs in. A user does not have to request individual access to every vital device or application: he or she is automatically connected to essential files, printers, and network applications.

You can also use ConsoleOne to administer users' rights. Rights are system flags assigned to network resources that control access to those resources. With ConsoleOne you can assign rights explicitly, grant equivalence, block inheritance, and view effective rights.

Extend the eDirectory schema

ConsoleOne extends the eDirectory schema by enabling you to add new attributes to existing eDirectory objects. These attributes increase your administrative flexibility by giving you additional categories for organization and storage purposes. For example, suppose that your organization has a series of management courses that employees are required to complete. In order to track employees' completed courses, you can extend the eDirectory schema through ConsoleOne to add a multi-valued, "Completed Courses" attribute to each user object.

Configure role-based administration

With ConsoleOne you can create roles in eDirectory that enable you to delegate administrative responsibilities. A role is a list of specific application functions—also known as tasks—that a user can perform. For an application function to be added to a role, it must already exist as a task object in your eDirectory tree. If, for example, you had an existing task object for reassigning user passwords, you could use ConsoleOne to create a role that would give specific password reassignment responsibilities to a non-administrator.

Manage eDirectory partitions and replicas

Offering advanced management features, ConsoleOne can be used to partition and replicate your eDirectory tree. This means that you can subdivide your eDirectory tree and then store and copy the divisions as independent units across multiple servers. Partitioning and replication are frequently used to improve network performance and fault tolerance. With ConsoleOne you can split, merge, and move partitions as well as add, delete, and modify replicas.

Generate eDirectory reports

ConsoleOne  includes predefined report forms you can use to generate reports on the objects in your eDirectory tree. ConsoleOne reports, however, can only be generated from a Windows workstation: the reporting function is still under development for the NetWare server.

A variety of reports are available for the following categories: eDirectory general objects, eDirectory user security, and eDirectory users and groups. eDirectory general objects reports provide information about the NetWare servers, print servers, and printers in your eDirectory tree. With eDirectory user security reports you can view login and rights security information for the users in your eDirectory tree. And finally, using eDirectory user and group reports you can obtain information about the users, groups, and other organizational roles in your eDirectory tree.

Salvage and purge deleted files on NetWare volumes

Have you ever accidentally deleted an essential file or folder and then panicked about its recovery? With ConsoleOne you can easily salvage files and folders that have been deleted from NetWare volumes, as long as they haven't been purged. You can also use ConsoleOne to purge specific files and folders at any time. This feature would be useful if a particularly large, unnecessary file consumed too much space. By deleting and purging extraneous files with ConsoleOne, you can ensure adequate space for vital information.

Support multiple languages

ConsoleOne is available in multiple languages. You can download it in Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.