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Service NetWare 6.5 SP8
Search (QuickFinder) Yes
SLP Yes - Novell
SLP
Software RAIDS (NSS Yes (0, 1, 5, 10,
volumes) 15)
Storage Management Yes
Services (SMS)
TCP/IP Yes
Timesync NLM Yes
Tomcat Yes
OES 2 Platform Differences / Migration Issues
Yes When indexing a file system, the
QuickFinder engine indexes only what it has
rights to see.
On NetWare, it has full access to all
mounted volumes. On Linux, it has rights to
only the files that the novlwww user in the
www group has rights to see.
For more information, see
Characteristics" and
For a Linux-Mounted NSS
OES 2 SP3: Novell QuickFinder Server 5.0
Administration
Yes - OpenSLP For OES 2, see
page 111.
NetWare uses Novell SLP, which provides
caching of Directory Agent scope
information in eDirectory. This provides for
sharing of scope information among DAs.
Starting with SP3, OpenSLP on Linux is
customized to provide DA synchronization
as well.
Yes (0, 1, 5, See "Understanding Software RAID
10, 15) Devices" in the
System Administration Guide for
Yes No functional differences, except that the
SBCON backup engine is not supported on
Linux.
The nbackup engine is available for
exploring SMS capabilities, but in a
production environment, you should use a
third-party, full-featured backup engine.
Yes No functional differences.
No Timesync will not be ported to Linux.
However, NTPv3 is available on both Linux
and NetWare.
See "Time Services" on page
Yes NetWare includes Tomcat 4 and a Tomcat 5
servlet container for iManager 2.7. OES 2
includes Tomcat 5. There is no impact to
any of the OES 2 administration tools, which
are tested and supported on both platforms.
See "Administration Instance vs. Public
Instance on NetWare" (http://
www.novell.com/documentation/oes2/
web_tomcat_nw/data/
ahdyran.html#ahdyran)
"Security
"Generating an Index
Volume" in the
Guide.
Section 12.5, "SLP," on
OES 2 SP3: NSS File
Linux.
99.
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