Part III: Providing Transparent Access

In This Part

Up to this point, the book has focused on the specific components and tasks necessary to get NetWare 6.5 ready to support the business needs of the 21st century. Part III looks at the specific features and offerings in NetWare 6.5 that make it the preeminent network operating system for conducting eBusiness.

Think for a minute about what you need to do business in today's world. You have far-flung employees , mobile users moving from site to site, partners and suppliers that need to provide and receive critical information, and the open access Internetacross which you need to send mission-critical and often confidential information. To manage all this, you need to develop a new paradigma new way of looking at thingsand NetWare 6.5 does just that.

Chapter 8 introduces you to the powerful features of Novell Storage Service (NSS), which provides unparalleled flexibility and security for your critical business data. In addition to NSS, NetWare 6.5 offers some exciting new options like NetWare distributed file system and storage area network capabilities through iSCSI. After all, the data is what the network is all about, right?

Chapter 9 introduces the NetWare 6.5 Apache Web server and Tomcat Servlet engine. NetWare 6.5 now uses the Apache Web server for NetWare for both its internal management tools and any external Web services you might want to create. This chapter also presents an overview of the Web services options that are included with NetWare 6.5 to make it one of the most powerful Web services platforms available todayall right out of the box!

Chapter 10 introduces the file access options in NetWare 6.5 in support of Novell's One Net vision. These tools make it possible to seamlessly and securely provide users with access to the information they need, regardless of location, time, or anything else. After all, your job as a network administrator revolves around making sure that users can access what they need when they need itnothing more than that.

NetWare 6.5 can make your job a whole lot easier.

 

8 File Storage and Management

 

9 Open Source Web Services

 

10 NetWare File Access



Novell NetWare 6. 5 Administrator's Handbook
Novell NetWare 6.5 Administrators Handbook
ISBN: 0789729849
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 172

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