Introducing NetWare Remote Manager

NetWare^® Remote Manager (PORTAL NLM^TM) is a utility that provides most of the functionality of MONITOR, along with some functionality from other utilities available at the server console, but is available from a Web browser. You can use NetWare Remote Manager to monitor your server's health, change the configuration of your server, or perform diagnostic and debugging tasks.

For information on accessing, understanding the layout, and configuring NetWare Remote Manager, see Accessing NetWare Remote Manager.

The following list includes some of the major tasks that you can perform with this utility.

Manage your server's health by

• Monitoring the health status of one or more servers
• Building a group of servers that you can monitor together
• Accessing NDS eDirectory health and troubleshooting tools

Configure your server by

• Managing disk partitions
• Viewing information about all hardware adapters, hardware resources, and processor data
• Uploading and replacing NLM programs, LAN drivers, or disk drivers
• Monitoring system disk space and memory resources
• Accessing files on volumes and DOS partitions
• Managing server connections
• Configuring Set parameters
• Setting schedules for running console commands
• Shutting down, restarting, or resetting a server

Troubleshoot server problems by

• Finding CPU hogs
• Finding high memory users
• Tracing abend sources
• Locating server process hogs
• Finding disk space hogs
• Seeing who is using an open file