Category: Novell

VMware View and Novell ZENworks Configuration Management presentation

Tomorrow I’m going to give a Novell ZENworks configuration Management 10 presentation voor de Training Center I often work for. It’s a introduction session about the working of ZCM10 but it pretty much covers the whole architecture including some demo’s because I’m a piratical guy. Then Thursday, it’s VMware View Time. This is a very […]

Monday March 23rd, 2009 in Novell, VMware | 20 Comments »

Admin-defined fields in Groupwise 8

Novell has made some changes in the way Groupwise 8 (HP1) handles admin-defined fields. Especially in a mixed environment with Groupwise 8 and 7 clients this can be confusing. I have also noticed inconsistencies in the Groupwise 8 client.  (Fields not being available/visible either in the Adress book listing or the contact details) Below you […]

Tuesday March 10th, 2009 in Novell | 2 Comments »

Administrating Groupwise from a NCP share

This has been covered many times, so this is a note for myself. If you want to use ConsoleOne on your Windows PC and you have Groupwise on a EXT3/ReiserFS partition. You can access the Groupwise database through a NCP share. But to prevent database corruption you have to make the following changes to you […]

Wednesday March 4th, 2009 in Novell | No Comments »

No update channel for OES2 SP1

I found a great TID to add a update channel for OES2 SP1. This is a short version of it: Check with the command “/usr/lib/zmd/query-pool products” the installed products. You will see something like: noes7:~ # /usr/lib/zmd/query-pool products |product|OPEN_ENTERPRISE_SERVER_SP1|2.0.1-0|i686 |product|SUSE_SLES_SP2|10.2-0|i686 i|product|SUSE_SLES_SP2|10.2-0|i686 Notice the “i” before SUSE_SLES_SP2|10.2-0|i686. This means that the products SLES10SP2 is installed. There […]

Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 in Novell | No Comments »

Installing VMI Kernel SLES10 SP2

In recent post, I talk about the VMI kernel and how it benefits CPU load. But I never blog how to install this Kernel. So here we go. On the Vmware site you can find a PDF called  VMware_VMI_performance.pdf. This document contains a link to Novell to manually download the VMI kernel because it isn’t […]

Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 in Novell, VMware | 16 Comments »