Refresh NAL Automatically
Did you know you can automatically refresh NAL using a command line? Under your ConsoleOne\lib\zen directory is an AutoRun.exe whose sole purpose is to refresh NAL. Copy this out to your public drive...
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license: Novell Proprietary Problem:For the upgrade from ZSM3.02 to ZSM6.5 and/or ZSM7.0 we came out with a CPK to upgrade them or customers could use the GUI. Because of this, the gui included a...
View ArticleBackup2Novell
license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 home page url: http://www.simplescripts.net/ download url:http://www.simplescripts.net/?p=8This script automates the process of...
View ArticleConversion Tool that takes delimited files and converts them to LDIF, SQL,...
license: Freely Available SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: You'll need to put the attached script file on a machine with PHP installed (tested with PHP 5 but should work with PHP 4). This script is used at the...
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Installing Subversion on Windows
Install Subversion and related tools on WindowsFor those using version control in their projects This document presents simple steps to install Subversion on a Windows server. This could be pretty...
View ArticleCommand Line Migrate
license: Free This tool is a perl script that will trigger an account to be migrated to a connected system. This functionality is found in iManager in the DriverSet view, however, it is limited in...
View ArticleRPM Package Verification and Repair
As everybody who uses a computer in a multi-user environment eventually finds out permissions on files and directories sometimes get in your way. This is typically a good thing since they also get in...
View ArticleCreating a Novell Support Advisor serverList.xml File Automatically
Novell Support Advisor (NSA) (http://support.novell.com/advisor) is a tool that can do analysis of your environment's servers and apply logic to retrieved data to determine if problems are currently...
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LJDT: Taking Advantage of Screen
Last week I was asked if there was a way to start an application at the command line and later come back to it from somewhere else. Normally in Linux/Unix (*nix) it is possible to 'background' a...
View ArticleLDAP Server Side Sort (SSS) Control
license: GPL v3 Server Side Sort (SSS) is the ability to have the server return its results in some order. Normally, per the LDAP RFC, there is no need to order or scramble data on the server side...
View ArticleAn OS X Login Hook for Novell Networks
license: Free Without Warranty Managing OS X workstations on a Novell network is easier than it was, but nowhere near as easy as it should be. Although solutions such as Kanaka and the modified...
View ArticleLDAP Virtual List View (VLV) Control
Once in a while an issue comes up where application A gives some odd errors in eDirectory but those errors seem to be cosmetic as application A is still fine and works (unless you count the messages in...
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Manual Removal of iFolder 3.7 with Re-installation on OES 2 Linux
I had one of my remote branches that couldn't wait for Open Enterprise Server 2 Linux to get iFolder. The local server was NetWare 6 and therefore would require iFolder 2 and a migration in the near...
View ArticleLJDT: Installed RPM Size
Sometimes I find myself wondering how big an installed RPM's files really are. Use a simple script to do all of the calculating of file sizes, plus see how to recreate the RPM from the system where the...
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Branch Server Redundancy
Structure:For each branch to have DHCP redundancy, it will require splitting the subnet. Take the following example for Branch 1. Subnet is 172.xx.45.0. The existing pool of addresses would be changed...
View ArticleLJDT: Base64 Encoding
So going back to the bit about encoding and enciphering consider an early use of encoded data, the ROT-13 encoding. This was done back long before computers came into being, unsurprisingly, for...
View ArticleLJDT: The 'watch' command
Do you ever find yourself running a command, pressing the up-arrow, then [Enter], then the up-arrow, then [Enter], then the up-arrow.... this is a great exercise that will get your fingers used to...
View ArticleAssign iPrint Printers the FAST way
Let's face the fact, assigning iPrint printers in iManager, especially if the users are in a different container than the iPrint Printer, can become very tedious and time consuming. First you have to...
View ArticleECMAScript/JavaScript Development Without a Web Browser
Have you ever been coding Java and suddenly wanted to do something using loosely-typed variables or worked out an issue with a little less Java-ness? Have you ever wanted to take advantage of the...
View ArticleRead NSS Rights to PDF File
license: no Bash Script to read / collect trustees and inherited rights filter across multiple folder trees:#OS : Open Enterprise Server 2 / SP1 or newer with Cluster Services --require: included...
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Obfuscated Password Options of the eDirectory Utilities, ndsconfig and ndscheck
Introduction:Scriptability is one of the basic expected features from an enterprise software like eDirectory, especially the command line utilities so that they can be integrated with other tools.In...
View ArticleHOWTO: Running ZCM's zman utility from a local Windows workstation
Ever wanted to run zman locally from a workstation instead of the server console? Here's how to make it happen:From the ZCM installation media install the following MSI packages:...
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eDirectory Restoration – A Case of Perfect Replication of a Change
You’ve followed all the best practices and documentation. Your eDirectory trees are healthy and replicating with no errors. Time is in synchronization and ndsrepair shows no errors or external...
View ArticleMy Collection of Useful Linux Admin Tricks
The purpose of Novell Cool Solutions is to disseminate information that contributors provide and share what they think is Cool. To continue with this purpose and tradition, I have compiled a list of...
View ArticleLoading the Linux Kernel Manually Using GRUB on SLES
This article will show you how, when presented with this situation, to manually load your kernel and find out what went awry. First thing is to briefly explain how Grub loads itself and the kernel.GRUB...
View ArticleSMT Command Line Administration
license: GPL v2 This is a script designed to allow some of the command line operations used on an SMT server become more user-friendly and automated. Some of the options, such as submitting and...
View ArticleSneakycat CLE and LDIF Driver 0.5
license: Freeware Sneakycat CLE and LDIF Driver Version: 0.5 beta (2011-10-21) Use at your own risk.What it is. The CLE (Command Line Execute) and LDIF Driver is a simple driver that can be used to...
View ArticleDelimited Text Parsing Script (perl)
license: Free for all This is a very simple PERL script that may be quite useful when working with delimited text files, especially for those of you who write/maintain Delimited Text drivers in IDM....
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