Novell Remote Manager provides the following enhancements and changes in OES 11 SP2:
The AFP plug-in for Novell Remote Manager allows you to manage AFP connections and open files for Novell AFP users. For an overview of the AFP plug-in, see Managing AFP Services
in the OES 11 SP2: Novell Remote Manager Administration Guide.
The CIFS plug-in for Novell Remote Manager allows you to manage CIFS connections and open files for Novell CIFS users. For an overview of the CIFS plug-in, see Managing CIFS Services
in the OES 11 SP2: Novell Remote Manager Administration Guide.
Ganglia and Nagios open source health monitoring tools replace the Health Monitor function in Novell Remote Manager in OES 11 SP2. Unlike the Health Monitor, Ganglia and Nagios tools do not use SFCB for management communications. See Diagnosing Problems Using Ganglia and Nagios (OES 11 SP2)
in the OES 11 SP2: Novell Remote Manager Administration Guide.
The Health Monitor function in Novell Remote Manager is obsoleted in OES 11 SP2. It is replaced by the Ganglia and Nagios open source monitoring tools, which do not use the Small Footprint CIM Broker (SFCB) for communications. For information about configuring and using Ganglia and Nagios to monitor the health of the server and services, see Diagnosing Problems Using Ganglia and Nagios
in the OES 11 SP2: Novell Remote Manager Administration Guide.
For information about using the Health Monitor in OES 11 SP1 and earlier releases, see Diagnosing Problems Using Health Monitor (OES 11 SP1)
in the OES 11 SP2: Novell Remote Manager Administration Guide.
The Novell Remote Manager email notification system is obsoleted in OES 11 SP2. For health monitoring, it is replaced by the Nagios alert notification system, which is used to send alerts from the Ganglia and Nagios health monitoring tools.
After you install or upgrade to OES 11 SP2, the Novell Remote Manager email notification system is not available. The commands mailserver and mailto are not found in the HTTPSTKD configuration file (/etc/opt/novell/httpstkd.conf) for a new install, and they are no longer supported after an upgrade.
Other functions or plug-ins that leveraged the HTTPSTKD email notification commands do not work with the Nagios alert notification system. Thus, they do not work in OES 11 SP2. For example, the NCP Server plug-in Manage NCP Services, the Send option in the Email Report column no longer works on the NCP Inventory Reports page and the NCP Trustee Reports page. This issue will be addressed in a future release.
In order to receive health monitoring alerts from Ganglia and Nagios, you must configure Nagios and its alert notification system. You must set up an email address for the nagiosadmin user. You can define other Nagios contacts. You can set up various notification methods for each Nagios contact, and assign the contacts to receive notifications for designated monitored services. For more information, see Configuring Nagios
and Configuring Nagios Notification System for Contacts
in the OES 11 SP2: Novell Remote Manager Administration Guide.
Web-based access to Novell Remote Manager is supported for the Internet Explorer 10 web browser in the desktop user interface view for Windows 7 clients and Windows 8 clients.
Availability for prior releases: January 2013 Scheduled Maintenance for OES 11 and OES 11 SP1
Web-based access to Novell Remote Manager is supported for the Apple Safari 6.0 web browser on Mac OS X 10.8 clients.
Availability for prior releases: January 2013 Scheduled Maintenance for OES 11 and OES 11 SP1