Novell invades NT market with administration tools
By Matthew Woollacott (Infoworld)
Publication Date: February 24, 1997 (Vol. 19, Issue 8)
Marching forward in its assault on the Windows NT market, Novell has launched a tool that allows NT-based users and
groups to be administered from the NetWare Administrator utility (also called NWAdmin).
Called Administrator for Windows NT, the tool is designed to provide centralized administration of mixed IntranetWare and
NT networks. It works by synchronizing the NT users and groups with the Novell Directory Services (NDS) database,
allowing NDS to act as a master repository for all network information.
Features include the ability to migrate NT domain users in groups to NDS and to synchronize databases to create a single
directory map. Because administration is performed through NDS, the system also eliminates the need for trusts within NT
Server environments. As many as 10,000 users and group objects can be supported in each NT domain, according to Novell.
John Kiger, director of product management for Novell's management products division, said that Novell Administrator for NT
is intended to complement Novell's other NT management products, including Novell Application Launcher, the ManageWise
NT agent for performance monitoring and alarm management, the IntranetWare client for NT, and NT Workstation Manager.
Administrator for Windows NT will ship next week. For six months, Novell is making it available for free from the Novell Web
page for existing ManageWise and IntranetWare customers.
Novell Inc., in Orem, Utah, is at (801) 429-7000 or novell.com. |
