Use the following links in the NetWare Remote Manager navigation frame to accomplish the following server management tasks:
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Access and view statistics for the following information:
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Shut down, reset, or restart the server |
The Volume Management page is the home page for NetWare Remote Manager.
You can access this page by clicking the Volumes link in the header frame or under Manage Server in the navigation frame.
The Volume Management page provides a list of the server's volumes, access to the server's DOS partitions, and the ability to perform partition management tasks. From this page, you can do the following:
Using NetWare Remote Manager, you can view the file system on volumes or DOS partitions; browse directories and files; view and change attributes of volumes, directories, and files; delete, create, or rename directories; and delete or rename files.
NOTE: Viewing or changing attributes on an NSS volume is not supported. However, you can view or change attributes of directories or files on an NSS volume.
To browse a volume or partition, click the link for the volume or DOS partition under the Name column.
To move down the tree, click the directory name.
To move up the tree, click the double dots.
To view or download a file, click the filename.
NOTE: The file size column for a directory lists the size of all files in that directory and any subdirectories.
Your eDirectoryTM rights govern your access to directories and files on NetWare partitions. These rights also regulate your ability to copy files to and from any given directory. To access the server's DOS partition, change, or upload files to the server, you must have Supervisor right to the Server object.
When you browse through files and directories on the server's DOS partition, be aware that setting the Shareable attribute on a DOS file does not have any effect unless SHARE is loaded in DOS.
To view or change attributes of a directory or file from the Volume Management page, do the following:
Click the volume name link.
Browse to the directory or file you want to view or change the attributes of. View the attributes in the Attribute column.
To change the attributes, click the directory or file link under the Attributes column.
Check or uncheck the check box for the attribute you want to set and then click OK.
To view the details about a directory, delete a directory and its contents, rename the directory, or create a subdirectory, do the following:
From the Volume Management page, click the volume name link, browse to the directory, and then click the folder (?) icon to left of the directory name.
From the information page that is displayed, view the information or enter the information required for the applicable task (if required), and then click the applicable button for the task you want to perform.
To view the details about a file or to delete or rename a file, do the following:
From the Volume Management page, click the volume, browse the directories to the file, and then click the file (?) icon to the left of the filename.
From the information page that is displayed, view the information or enter the information required for the applicable task, and then click the applicable button for the task you want to perform.
If your browser is set up to recognize a certain file extension (for example, .TXT), you can browse to and click a file of that type to view it directly in NetWare Remote Manager. Otherwise, you can download any file to your local machine by clicking the filename and then saving it to a local workstation and opening it there. (This also applies to the files on the server's DOS partition.)
If you have rights to write to the current directory that you are viewing via NetWare Remote Manager, you can use the Upload button to copy a file from your local machine or any other mapped drive to that directory. You can upload only one file at a time.
When you are browsing the server's file system via NetWare Remote Manager, you can download any file to your local machine by clicking the filename and then saving it to your local workstation. (This also applies to the files on the server's DOS partition.)
To do a GREP-type search (accepts GREP wildcard characters) through the files in the current directory or its subdirectories, browse to the directory you would like to search in. Click the Text Search link. Specify the content, filename, or extension you would like to search for and check whether you would like to match the case and search subdirectories. Then click Search.
If the search instructions are valid, the results are display on a page with the search instructions.You can click the filename in the results list to view or download it. If nothing is found, no files will be listed under the search instructions.
If the search instructions are not valid, the page showing the directory you wanted to search is returned.
You can mount and dismount volumes by clicking the link in the Mounted status column for a given volume on the Volume Management page. You will be asked to confirm your choice before the volume dismounts.
You can also click the Mount Volume or Dismount Volume link displayed next to the volume on the Server Disk Partition Operations page.
If you choose to dismount volume SYS:, the icons used by NetWare Remote Manager (which reside in SYS:\LOGIN) might not display correctly. When you remount volume SYS: and reload the page, the icons will display correctly again.
To create, change, or delete a logical (NSS) or traditional NetWare Partition Pool or volume, click the Disk Partitions link on the Volume page.
The Server Disk Partition Operations page displays the disk layout according to the physical connections in your server using indentation to indicate where a volume physically resides. You can see the adapters, devices, partitions, pools, and volumes at different levels of indentation. If free space is available for creating a new partition, pool or volume, you can also view it under each device. A link for creating a volume, mirroring a volume, adding a volume, or expanding a pool is displayed next to the devices, pools, or volumes listed.
To create a partition or pool, do the following:
Locate and click the Create link next to the free space on the device that you want to create the partition on.
Select the type of partition you want to create by clicking the applicable link.
Complete the required fields for the type of partition you are creating, and then click Create.
To expand a partition or pool, do the following:
Locate and click the Expand link next to the pool that you want to expand.
Select the Free Disk Space / Free Partition Space link with the space available that you want to use.
Enter the amount of space (in megabytes) that you want to use, and then click Expand.
To create a volume, do the following:
Locate and click the Create link next to the free space on the device that you want to create the volume on.
Select the type of volume to create.
Complete the required fields for the type of pool and volume, or partition and volume you want to create, and then click Create.
To mirror a partition, do the following:
Locate and click the Mirror link next to the partition you to want to mirror.
Locate and click a free disk space segment from the list displayed.
The operation will begin, and when it is complete the status "100% mirrored" will be displayed.
On the Server Disk Partition Operations page, you can also view and set the space quota set on each volume.
To change a space quota for a volume, do the following:
Locate and click the Space Quota link next to the volume you to want to change.
Click the Volume Space Quota link.
Enter the value (in megabytes) of the space size you want to specify, and then click Apply.
Confirm your decision by clicking OK.
From the Current Screens page, you can access any of the server console screens with the exception of the X Server - Graphical Console.
To access the Current Screens page, click the Console Screens link in the navigation frame.
To run any of the console screens through the browser as though you were at the server console keyboard and view the results, click the Console Screens link on the Current Screens page. Clicking this link runs a Java applet that opens a secondary browser window.
From this secondary browser window you can do the following:
Under the HTML Based Screen Pages heading on the Current Screen page, you can see a list of screens that are currently running on the server console.
When you click the link associated with each of these screens, you can view the screen and control the refresh rate only with the Page Refresh Rate drop-down list at the top of the window. The HTML page for the System Console screen also allows you to enter console commands to be executed at the server console.
You can control the refresh rate of the different server pages. Refresh on the System Console page is suspended when you click Execute Command Line.
You can now view on the Logger screen much of the information that used to be displayed on the System Console screen. This screen is scrollable and can be saved to a file. To access a list of commands for scrolling and saving to a file, press F1 while viewing the Logger screen.
From the Connection Information page, you can do the following:
To access the Connection Information page, click the Connections link in the navigation frame.
The table in the Connection Manager on the Connection Information page displays the following information about connections:
Connection Slots Allocated displays the number of slots currently allocated for use. As connection slots are required on this server that exceed the current number of slots displayed here, new slots are allocated. Depending on the server's memory, connection slots are usually allocated in blocks of 16. Connection slots are allocated as needed by users, NetWare Loadable Module (NLM) programs, and other services.
Connection Slots Being Used displays the number of connection slots currently in use. As this number matches or exceeds the Connection Slots Allocated entry, more connection slots are allocated to the connection table.
Signing Level displays the level at which NCPTM packet signature signing is set on the server. NCP packet signatures prevent packet forgery by requiring the server and the workstation to sign each NCP packet. A higher packet signature number impacts the performance of your server. At some point, the need for security might outweigh certain performance issues.
Login State displays whether users are allowed to log in to the server. To disable users from being able to log in to the server (for server maintenance or other reasons), enter DISABLE LOGIN at the System Console prompt. To allow users to log in to the server, enter ENABLE LOGIN at the System Console prompt.
The table under the Connections heading on the Connection Information page displays the following information about connections:
Station displays the connection number for each connection. Connection 0 is the connection used by the server. The server's operating system uses connection numbers to control each station's communication with other stations. Remote Manager does not distinguish connections that don't count against the server's connection limit.
Name displays the name of the user, server, service, or login status and links to specific information about that user connection such as the login time, connection number, network address, login status, and files in use.
Clear Connection link is displayed next to the connection name link for any connection that can be cleared.
To clear all user connections that are open but not currently authenticated to the server, click the Clear All "Not Logged In" Connections link on the Connection Information page. The connections cleared can be NLM- or user-based.
You should be careful in clearing NLM-based connections because some backup NLM programs establish a connection during the server initialization process and maintain a Not Logged In connection to the server until it is time to log in and run the backup process. These types of NLM connections will not be able to re-establish a connection to the server unless the NLM is manually unloaded and reloaded at the server console, which might prevent it from functioning properly at the designated time of execution.
If a user reboots a workstation without properly logging out, the server sends a watchdog packet to that workstation to see if it is still communicating with the server. The server continues to send watchdog packets until the workstation logs in again and re-establishes its connection with the server, or until the watchdog drops the connection because of the lack of response from the workstation.
If a user's workstation quits working, it usually leaves its connection to the server open and files open. To clear a specific connection like this and others, do the following:
Click the Connections link in the navigation frame to open the Connection Information page.
On the Connection Information page, locate the specific connection listed in the Connections table and then click the Clear Connection link next to the connection.
To view which files a specific connection has open, do the following:
Click the Connections link in the navigation frame to open the Connection Information page.
On the Connection Information page, locate the specific connection listed in the Connections table and then click the username link.
Before you shut down, reset, or restart your server for any reason, you might want to send a message to everyone connected to it.
To send a message to all of the users who are currently logged in to the server through Novell ClientTM software, enter the message in the Broadcast Message to Everyone field on the Connection Information page and click Send.
You can enter up to 252 characters and spaces in the message. On Windows-based workstations, the message will appear in a pop-up dialog box at the workstation. Broken connections and users that are not logged in through Novell Client software will not receive the message.
To send a message to a specific user who is currently logged in to the server through Novell Client software, enter the message in the Send Message field on the Connection Information page for that user and click Send.
From the Set Parameter Categories page, you can do the following:
To access the Set Parameter Categories page, click the Set Parameters link in the navigation frame.
To view a setting for a specific parameter in a category, click the name of the category on the Set Parameter Categories page. To change the value for that parameter, click the parameter value link, change the value, and click OK. We recommend you keep the settings at the default unless you are aware of the ramification of the changed value. To view the help for each parameter, click the ? icon next to the parameter value link. The help description for each parameter describes what the parameter controls, lists the range of values that can be set, shows the NLM program that owns the parameter, and lists the attributes for the file.
To save the settings to a text file on volume SYS:, enter a filename with the .TXT extension in the Save Setting to a File on Volume SYS: field, and then click Save.
To do this, click the View Hidden Set Parameter On or Off button on the Set Parameter Categories page.
To do this, click the View Modified Set Parameters button on the Set Parameter Categories page. This list does not include nonpersistent SET parameters. When diagnosing a server problem, you might want to review settings that have been changed from the server default values or compare them against a server that is working well. If you have more than one network administrator making changes to your server, using this feature will help you to know what changes have been made.
To do this, click the View Non-persistent Set Parameters button on the Set Parameter Categories page. Nonpersistent SET parameters are those which are not stored in the NetWare Registry. If you want the changes to nonpersistent Set parameters to be preserved when the server reboots, you should add a line in the server's AUTOEXEC.NCF file for setting the parameter.
Rather than making a batch file to run specific console commands on the server at a certain time, you can use the links and the form on the Scheduled Console Commands page to schedule console commands to run.
To access the Scheduled Console Commands page, click the Schedule Task link in the navigation frame.
To schedule a console command, complete the information in the form and click Submit.
After scheduling a command, you can view and change the scheduled task until you delete the schedule. Any console command is valid and you can enter commands that execute NCF files, load NLM programs, send messages, etc.
To see a list of console commands and the associated help, click the Console Commands link.
To change an already scheduled console command, select it from the list of Currently Scheduled Console Commands, change the schedule, and then click Submit.
To delete a task, select the task from the list of Currently Scheduled Console Commands and click Delete.
Scheduled task lists are stored in the NetWare Registry, so they will be preserved when the server is rebooted.
To view a list of commands that can be executed at the server console, click the Console Commands link in the navigation frame.
To access the server console in order to execute any of these commands from NetWare Remote Manger, click the Console Screens link.
To view specific syntax or help for each command, click the Info icon next to the command. Several of the hidden console commands do not have any help associated with the command.
The default sorting method for this list of commands is by the command name. If you want the list to be sorted by the module that registered it, click the list heading Owner.
Viewing the general information can help you understand how your server is using memory and which programs are using it. Knowing how memory is used can help you determine whether to add more memory to your server to increase server performance or unload specific NLM programs that might be causing memory problems, or change other settings that might allow the server to use memory more proficiently.
To view general memory information, access the System Memory Information page by clicking the View Memory Config link in the navigation frame.
The following table describes each statistic shown on the System Memory Information page.
Viewing statistics on your server can help you become familiar with how your server is running at the various levels listed. This information can also help you to know when to turn system alerts on or off. The following links on the Server Statistical Information page allow you to view this information:
Network Management Information link accesses the Network Management Information page that shows a short list of network management IDs with their corresponding descriptions and current values.
Kernel Statistical Information link accesses the Kernel Event Counter Information page that shows the number and type of events that occur during a sample period on a per-CPU basis.
LSL Statistical Information link accesses the LSL Statistical Information page that shows the statistics generated and maintained by the Link Support LayerTM of the NetWare server.
Media Manager Statistical Information link accesses the Media Manager Information page that monitors requests in the server's disk I/O subsystem (meaning those requests that actually cause access to disk media). File system requests that access the file cache are not monitored. Therefore, it is possible for these statistics to be at zero even when file requests are occurring.
To access the Server Statistical Information page and view these statistics, click the View Statistics link in the navigation frame, and then click the applicable link for the statistic you want to view.
Options for shutting down, resetting, or restarting your server are on the Down Server Options page.
To access the Down Servers Options page, click the Down / Restart link in the navigation frame.
To shut down, restart, or reset (warm boot) the server, click the applicable action on the Down Servers Options page, and then confirm your choice.
Using any of these options makes the server shut down normally by writing all cache buffers to disk, closing all files, updating the appropriate Directory Entry and File Allocation Tables, exiting the network, and dismounting all volumes.
WARNING: If volumes are not dismounted normally, data loss could occur.
Resetting the server makes the server shut down normally and then warm boots the computer. To make the server load automatically after a RESET command and allow access to the server from NetWare Remote Manager, enter a line to run SERVER.EXE in the DOS AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
When the browser loses communication with NetWare Remote Manager, the overall health status indicator will display black with an X through it. When communication is re-established with the server, the normal health status will again display the server's status unless the accessibility options for manually refreshing the server are enabled.
If this page is displayed after a DOWN, RESTART, or RESET command has been issued to the server, you will be given the option to immediately restart or reset the server. This will bypass the normal shutting down of the server and allow you to immediately perform the selected operation.