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...
View ArticleObject Upgrade
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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