3.1 What Services Are Included in OES 2015 SP1?

This section contains three comparison and information tables to help you understand what OES 2015 SP1 includes:

Table 3-1 Service Comparison—NetWare 6.5 SP8 and OES 2015 SP1

Service

NetWare 6.5 SP8

OES 2015 SP1

Platform Differences / Migration Issues

Access Control Lists

Yes

Yes

In combination with NCP Server, Linux supports the Novell trustee model for file access on NSS volumes and NCP (POSIX) volumes on Linux.

AFP (Apple File Protocol)

Yes - NFAP

Yes - Novell AFP

AFP services on NetWare and OES are proprietary and tightly integrated with eDirectory and Novell Storage Services (NSS).

Apache Web Server

Yes - NetWare port of open source product

Yes - Standard Linux

Using Apache HTTP Server on OES Servers (Single Server or Cluster Nodes) in the OES 2015 SP1: Web Services and Applications Guide.

Administration Instance vs. Public Instance on NetWare.

What’s Different about Apache on NetWare.

Archive and Version Services (AVS) (Novell)

Yes

No

Discontinued from OES 2015.

Backup (SMS)

  • SMS

  • NSS-Xattr

Yes

Yes

SMS provides backup applications with a framework to develop complete backup and restore solutions. For information, see the OES 2015 SP1: Storage Management Services Administration Guide for Linux.

NSS provides extended attribute handling options for NSS on Linux. For information, see Using Extended Attributes (xAttr) Commands in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

CIFS (Windows File Services)

Yes - NFAP

Yes - Novell CIFS

Both NFAP and Novell CIFS are Novell proprietary and tightly integrated with eDirectory and Novell Storage Services (NSS).

Clustering

Yes

Yes

Comparing Novell Cluster Services for Linux and NetWare in the OES 2015 SP1: Novell Cluster Services NetWare to Linux Conversion Guide.

DFS (Novell Distributed File Services)

Yes

Yes

In combination with NCP Server, DFS supports junctions and junction targets for NSS volumes on Linux and NetWare.

DFS also supports junction targets for NCP volumes on non-NSS file systems, such as Btrfs, Ext3, and XFS. The VLDB command offers additional options to manage entries in the VLDB for NCP volumes.

DHCP

Yes

Yes

For a comparison between what is available on OES and NetWare, see DHCP Differences Between NetWare and OES 2015 SP1 in the OES 2015 SP1: Planning and Implementation Guide.

To plan your DHCP implementations, see Planning a DHCP Strategy in the OES 2015 SP1: DNS/DHCP Services for Linux Administration Guide and Planning a DHCP Strategy in the NW 6.5 SP8: Novell DNS/DHCP Services Administration Guide.

DNS

Yes

Yes

For a comparison between what is available on OES and NetWare, see DNS Differences Between NetWare and OES 2015 SP1 in the OES 2015 SP1: Planning and Implementation Guide.

See Planning a DNS Strategy in the OES 2015 SP1: DNS/DHCP Services for Linux Administration Guide and Planning a DNS Strategy in the NW 6.5 SP8: Novell DNS/DHCP Services Administration Guide.

Dynamic Storage Technology (DST)

No

Yes

For more information, see the OES 2015 SP1: Dynamic Storage Technology Administration Guide.

eDirectory 8.8

Yes

Yes

No functional differences.

eDirectory Certificate Server

Yes

Yes

No functional differences.

eGuide (White Pages)

Yes

No

This functionality is now part of the Identity Manager User Application. For more information, see the User Application: Administration Guide.

Filr

No

Entitlement

See Novell Filr.

FTP Server

Yes

Yes

FTP file services on OES servers are provided by Pure-FTPd, a free (BSD), secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server. The OES implementation includes support for FTP gateway functionality as on NetWare and offers a level of integration between eDirectory and Pure-FTP that allows users to authenticate to eDirectory for FTP access to the server.

For more information, see Novell FTP (Pure-FTPd) and OES 2015 SP1 in the OES 2015 SP1: Planning and Implementation Guide.

Health Monitoring Services

Yes

Yes

In OES, NRM provides health monitoring via the open source monitoring tools Ganglia and Nagios. These tools do not use SFCB.

For help with diagnosing problems using Ganglia and Nagios in OES, see Diagnosing Problems Using Ganglia and Nagios (OES 2015 SP1) in the OES 2015 SP1: Novell Remote Manager Administration Guide.

The NRM Health Monitor tool is no longer available in OES 11 SP2 and later.

Identity Manager 4.0.2 Bundled Edition

No

Yes

See Using the Identity Manager 4.0.2 Bundle Edition..

iPrint

Yes

Yes

See Overview in the OES 2015 SP1: iPrint Linux Administration Guide, and Overview in the NW 6.5 SP8: iPrint Administration Guide.

IPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange) from Novell

Yes

No

No plans to port IPX to OES.

iSCSI

Yes

Yes

The iSCSI target for Linux does not support eDirectory access controls like the NetWare target does. Nor is the iSCSI initiator or target in OES integrated with NetWare Remote Manager management. You use YaST management tools instead.

On the other hand, the iSCSI implementation for Linux is newer and performs better.

See Linux-iSCSI Project on the Web.

See Overview in the NW 6.5 SP8: iSCSI 1.1.3 Administration Guide.

KVM Virtualization Guest

No

Yes

Of the two OES virtualization solutions (KVM and Xen), only Xen is supported for running Netware.

KVM Virtualization Host Server

No

Yes

No functional differences.

LDAP Server for eDirectory

Yes

Yes

No functional differences.

Multipath Device Management

Yes

Yes

NetWare uses NSS multipath I/O. Linux uses Device Mapper - Multipath that runs underneath other device management services.

MySQL

Yes - NetWare port of open source product

Yes - Standard Linux

See MySQL.com on the Web.

See Overview: MySQL in the NW 6.5 SP8: Novell MySQL Administration Guide.

See also Configuring MySQL with Novell Cluster Services in the OES 2015 SP1: Web Services and Applications Guide.

NCP Volumes

No

Yes

NCP Server on Linux supports creating NCP volumes on Linux POSIX file systems such as btrfs, Reiser, Ext2, Ext3, and XFS.

OES includes support for much larger NCP volumes.

For information, see Managing NCP Volumes in the OES 2015 SP1: NCP Server for Linux Administration Guide.

NCP Server

Yes

Yes

NCP services are native to NetWare 6.5 and NSS volumes; to have NCP services on OES, the NCP Server must be installed.

See Benefits of NCP Server in the OES 2015 SP1: NCP Server for Linux Administration Guide.

NetStorage

Yes

Yes

NetStorage on Linux offers connectivity to storage locations through the CIFS, NCP, and SSH protocols. NetWare uses only NCP.

NetWare Traditional File System

Yes

No

No plans to port the NetWare Traditional File System to Linux.

NetWare Traditional Volumes

Yes

N/A

NFARM

No

Yes

The Novell Access Rights Management (NFARM) shell extension for Windows Explorer lets you manage Novell Trustee ACLs for AD users and groups who have access to AD-enabled NSS volumes.

For more information, see Managing the Rights of Active Directory Users Using NFARM in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS AD Administration Guide.

NFS

Yes - NFAP

Yes - native to Linux

For NetWare, see Working with UNIX Machines in the NW 6.5 SP8: AFP, CIFS, and NFS (NFAP) Administration Guide.

NICI (Novell International Cryptography Infrastructure)

Yes

Yes

No functional differences.

NIT

No

Yes

The Novell Identity Translator provides UID support for eDirectory and Active Directory users accessing NSS data through CIFS.

For more information, see NIT (Novell Identity Translator)in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS AD Administration Guide

NMAS (Novell Modular Authentication Services)

Yes

Yes

No functional differences.

Novell Audit

Yes

No

Novell Audit is not included with OES. However, the Novell Audit 2.0 Starter pack is available for download at no cost on Novell.com.

Novell Client for Windows and Linux support

Yes

Yes

Novell Client connectivity to OES requires that the NCP Server be installed.

Access to the larger NCP volumes supported by OES requires the latest Novell Client software.

Novell Cluster Services (NCS)

Yes

Yes

See Product Features in the OES 2015 SP1: Novell Cluster Services for Linux Administration Guide.

See Product Features in the NW6.5 SP8: Novell Cluster Services 1.8.5 Administration Guide.

Novell Filr

No

Yes

Organizations with a current maintenance agreement are entitled to deploy Novell Filr at no cost.

For more information, see the Novell website.

Filr supports NSS-AD integration in OES 2015 or later.

Novell iFolder 2.x

Yes

No

For migration information, see Migrating iFolder 2.x in the OES 2015 SP1: Migration Tool Administration Guide

Novell iFolder 3.9

No

Yes

OES includes Linux, Macintosh, and Windows clients.

Novell Licensing Services

Yes

No

For more information, see OES Doesn’t Support NLS in the OES 2015 SP1: Planning and Implementation Guide.

Novell Linux Volume Manager

No

Yes

The Novell Linux Volume Manager (NLVM) command line interface can be used to create and manage Linux POSIX file systems.

For information about the syntax and options for the NLVM commands used in this section, see the OES 2015 SP1: NLVM Reference.

NSS (Novell Storage Services)

Yes

Yes

Most NSS services are available on both platforms. For a list of NSS features that are not used on Linux, see Cross-Platform Issues for NSS in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

In OES 11 and later, NSS supports both the DOS and GPT partitioning scheme.

In OES 11 SP1 and later, NSSMU supports Linux volumes in addition to NSS pools and volumes.

NTPv3

Yes

Yes

The ntpd.conf file on NetWare can replace an OES server’s NTP configuration file without modification.

OpenSSH

Yes

Yes

NetWare includes a port of the open source product. Linux includes the open source product itself.

See Functions Unique to the NetWare Platform in the NW 6.5 SP8: OpenSSH Administration Guide.

PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)

No

Yes

PAM is a Linux service that Novell leverages to provide eDirectory authentication. eDirectory authentication is native on NetWare.

Pervasive.SQL

Yes

No

Pervasive.SQL is available for Linux from the Web.

PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

Yes

Yes

No functional differences.

Printing

Yes

Yes

See iPrint.

QuickFinder

Yes

No

See Search.

RADIUS

Yes

Yes

See the information on forge.novell.com.

Salvage

Yes

Yes

Salvage is now supported for eDirectory and AD users using NFARM utility.

Samba

No

Yes

Samba is an open source technology available on OES. Novell provides automatic configuration for authentication through eDirectory. For more information, see the OES 2015 SP1: Novell Samba Administration Guide.

Search (QuickFinder)

Yes

No

Discontinued from OES 2015.

SLP

Yes - Novell SLP

Yes - OpenSLP

For more information, see SLP in the OES 2015 SP1: Planning and Implementation Guide.

NetWare uses Novell SLP, which provides caching of Directory Agent scope information in eDirectory. This provides for sharing of scope information among DAs.

OpenSLP on Linux is customized to provide DA information retention and sharing as well.

Software RAIDS (NSS volumes)

Yes (0, 1, 5, 0 1, 5 1)

Yes (0, 1, 5, 0 1, 5 1)

See Understanding Software RAID Devices in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

Storage Management Services (SMS)

Yes

Yes

The SBCON backup engine is not supported on Linux.

The nbackup engine is available for exploring SMS capabilities, but in a production environment, you should use a third-party, full-featured backup engine.

Beginning with OES 2015, SMS is enhanced to support the 64-bit storage enhancements and AD-user ACLs on AD-enabled NSS volumes.

TCP/IP

Yes

Yes

No functional differences.

Timesync NLM

Yes

No

Timesync will not be ported to Linux. However, NTPv3 is available on both Linux and NetWare.

For more information, see Time Services in the OES 2015 SP1: Planning and Implementation Guide.

Tomcat

Yes

Yes

NetWare includes Tomcat 4 and a Tomcat 5 servlet container for iManager 2.7. OES includes Tomcat 6. There is no impact to any of the administration tools, which are tested and supported on both platforms.

For more information, see “Administration Instance vs. Public Instance on NetWare”

Virtual Office (Collaboration)

Yes

No

Virtual Office has been replaced by Novell Vibe A separate purchase is required. For more information, see the Novell Vibe website.

WAN Traffic Manager

Yes

No

Xen Virtualization Guest

Yes

Yes

NetWare 6.5 SP8 (and NetWare 6.5 SP 7) can run as a paravirtualized machine. OES can run as a paravirtualized machine or fully virtualized machine.

Xen Virtualization Host Server

N/A

Yes

Table 3-2 OES 2015 SP1 Service Changes

Service

OES 2015 SP1 Changes and Information

Access Control Lists

AFP (Apple File Protocol)

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1. Novell AFP is not integrated with NSS-AD.

Apache Web Server

  • Apache functionality is unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Archive and Version Services (AVS) (Novell)

  • Archive and Version Services is discontinued.

  • If you need to manage AVS on a pre-OES 2015 server from an OES 2015 or later server, the AVS iManager plug-in is available for installation.

Backup (SMS)

  • SMS

  • NSS-Xattr

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

CIFS (Windows File Services)

  • Beginning with OES 2015 SP1, Active Directory and eDirectory users can perform Salvage or Purge operation through NFARM utility.

  • CIFS users can access NSS resources in a multi-forest environment.

  • novcifs: Lets you enable or disable DFS support for the CIFS server. By default, this option is disabled.

Cluster Services

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

DFS (Novell Distributed File Services)

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

DHCP

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

DNS

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Dynamic Storage Technology (DST)

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

For more information, see What’s New or Changed in Dynamic Storage Technology in the OES 2015 SP1: Dynamic Storage Technology Administration Guide.

eDirectory 8.8

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

eDirectory Certificate Server

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Filr

  • Filr 2.0 supports the NSS-AD integration service in OES 2015 and later.

FTP Server

  • Beginning with OES 2015 SP1, FTP server supports NSS AD integration service.

Health Monitoring Services

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Identity Manager 4.0.2 Bundled Edition

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

iPrint

  • iPrint doesn’t currently support the NSS-AD integration service in OES 2015 SP1.

iSCSI

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

KVM Virtualization Guest

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

KVM Virtualization Host Server

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

LDAP Server for eDirectory

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Linux User Rights Management

  • For LUM to coexist with the Novell ID Translator service, UIDs generated by LUM must not overlap those generated by NIT.

Multipath Device Management

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

MySQL

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

NCP Volumes

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

NCP Server

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

NetStorage

  • NetStorage doesn’t currently support the NSS-AD integration service in OES 2015 SP1.

NICI (Novell International Cryptography Infrastructure)

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Novell ID Translator (NIT)

  • Multi-forest support for AD users.

NMAS (Novell Modular Authentication Services)

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Novell Client for Windows and Linux support

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Novell iFolder 3.9

  • iFolder doesn’t support the NSS-AD integration service in OES 2015 SP1.

Novell Linux Volume Manager

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

NSS (Novell Storage Services)

NSS enhancements in OES 2015 SP1 include the following:

  • Delayed Block Allocation: Improvements in block allocation algorithm leading to reduced disk fragmentation.

  • nsscon utility was enhanced.

  • sputil was introduced for performing purge operations on files deleted by eDirectory and AD users.

NTPv3

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

QuickFinder

  • QuickFinder is discontinued, starting with OES 2015.

    If you need to manage QuickFinder on a pre-OES 2015 server from an OES 2015 SP1 server, the iManager plug-in is available for installation.

RADIUS

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Salvage

  • Salvage is now supported for eDirectory and AD users using NFARM utility.

Samba

  • Samba cannot run on the same server as Novell CIFS and is unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

SLP

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Software RAIDS (NSS volumes)

  • Software RAID support is unaffected by the Pool and volume size changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Storage Management Services (SMS)

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

TCP/IP

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Tomcat

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Xen Virtualization Guest

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Xen Virtualization Host Server

  • Unaffected by changes in OES 2015 SP1.

Table 3-3 OES 2015 SP1 Utility Changes

Utility

Changes and Information

Hard Link Support

Hard link support has changed as follows:

  • All volumes created or migrated to OES 2015 SP1 are automatically hard link media upgraded.

    For more information, see Hard Links Commands in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

  • Because all volumes on OES 2015 SP1 servers are automatically hard-link media upgraded, the hard link media upgrade commands

    /ZLSSUpgradeCurrentVolumeMediaFormat

    and

    /ZLSSUpgradeNewVolumeMediaFormat

    have been removed from OES beginning with OES 2015.

iManager Storage Plug-ins

The following capabilities have been added to the iManager Storage plug-in:

  • Pool Type: Creating NSS 64-bit pools and volumes and displaying pool type information.

  • AD media: Support for creating, upgrading, and enabling pools and volumes to support AD users.

For more information, see Managing NSS Pools in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

NFARM

Beginning with OES 2015 SP1, Active Directory and eDirectory users can perform salvage and purge operation. eDirectory users can perform salvage and purge operations through CIFS using NFARM utility without AD integration.

For more information, see Salvage and Purge in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS AD Administration Guide.

nitconfig

Introduced in OES 2015, nitconfig lets administrators configure the Novell Identity Translator (NIT) configuration parameters contained in the nitd.conf file.

For more information, see nitconfig utility: in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS AD Administration Guide.

novcifs

You can enable or disable DFS support for the CIFS server.

[--dfs-support=yes|no]

novell-ad-util

Introduced in OES 2015, novell-ad-util lets administrators join an OES 2015 or later server or a Novell cluster resource to an Active Directory domain and manage the Kerberos keytabs for the joined components.

For more information, see Domain Join Tool to Join the OES 2015 Servers to an Active Directory Domain in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS AD Administration Guide.

nsschown

Options are added for changing file and directory ownership based on the owner’s Security Identifier (SID) or AD Username. There is also an option to change the ownership of extended attributes at the same time.

nsscon

Commands are enhanced for this release.

For more information, see nsscon and NSS Commands in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

nssmu

The utility is enhanced for this release.

For more information, see nssmu and NSS Commands in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

nssquota

Options are added for setting quotas for AD users and groups.

  • -a or –-activedirectory

nsssettings

Displays the settings of active NSS pools and volumes.

For more information, see nsssettings in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

NURM

Beginning with OES 2015 SP1, NURM provides the following enhancements and changes: Contextless login, Refreshing user maps, Two way synchronization of rights, Secure LDAP port to connect to the AD server, Map rights using multiple user maps, and Pagination and filtering.

For more information, see NURM (OES User Rights Management) in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS AD Administration Guide.

querylog

Lets you view recent cluster events.

This functionality is also available within sbdutil and iManager.

sbdutil

sbdutil lets you manage split-brain support in NCS clusters.

sputil

Introduced in OES 2015 SP1, sputil let administrators perform the purge operation.

For more information, see sputil in the OES 2015 SP1: NSS File System Administration Guide for Linux.

rights

Options are added for managing rights for AD users and groups.

  • -a or –-activedirectory