Novell AppNotes® Novell Research www.novell.com MARCH 2002 Novell’s Technical Journal for Implementing, Managing, and Programming to one Net Spotlight on iChain 2.0 IN THIS ISSUE 4 Novell iChain 2.0 Installation and Configuration Quick Start 35 What’s New in Novell BorderManager 3.7? 45 Link Level Load Balancing Novell and Fault Tolerance in NetWare 6 AppNotes 54 Creating Applets for Novell Groupwise with Advansys Formativ HOW-T O ARTICLES • March 70 How to Uninstall Novell Account Management 2.1 for Windows NT 2002 79 How to Extend the NetWare Scripting Environment by Creating UCX Components SECTIONS 93 Net Management 109 Net Support 117 Code Break 125 Viewpoints AppNotes ® Novell’s Technical Journal for Implementing, Managing, and Programming to one Net March 2002 Volume 13, Number 3 Editor-in-Chief Gamal B. Herbon Novell AppNotes® (formerly Novell Application Notes, ISSN# 1077-0321, and now including the former Novell Developer Notes) is published monthly by Novell, 1800 S. 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Letter from the Editor March 2002 Dear AppNotes Readers: Welcome to the March 2002 BrainShare issue of Novell AppNotes! Chances are you might be reading this while attending BrainShare 2002 in Salt Lake City. If so, we hope you take a few minutes to stop by our program table and visit with the AppNotes team. Or stop by the DeveloperNet University classroom in the Developer’s Den and let us know what you think. The whole team will be at BrainShare throughout the week and we look forward to chatting with you and getting your feedback on AppNotes, our new eBooks, our DeveloperNet University courses, and Novell and the industry in general. As you probably noticed if you watched any of the 2002 Olympic Winter games, Utah is a great place for winter sports. So we encourage you to take time to enjoy what our wonderful state has to offer while you are here! For this special BrainShare 2002 issue, we have quite an assortment of articles for you. First up is “Novell iChain 2.0 Installation and Configuration Quick Start” by Neil Cashell and Shane Johns, followed by “What’s New in Border Manager 3.7?” by Scott Jones. Yes, contrary to what some industry writers would have you believe, the BorderManager product is alive and being enhanced all the time! Next we have an interesting article entitled “Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance in NetWare 6” by Sudarshan S and Piyush Rai. From a third-party partner we have “Creating Applets for Novell GroupWise with Advansys Formativ” by Grant Johnson. We also have two hands-on articles this month with “How to Uninstall Novell Account Manager 2.1 for Windows NT” by Patrice Clements, and “How to Extend the NetWare Scripting Environment by Creating UCX Components” by Srivathsa M. Add to that all your favorite sections, including Code Break, Net Management, Net Support, and Viewpoints (with our Lightweight Access humor section), and we think you’ll agree that this month’s issue has something for everyone! Since we’ve received a lot of positive feedback on our eBook offerings, we have converted all of our issues back to September of 2001 into the eBook format for download. If you don’t have the eBook reader yet, there is a link for it on our eBook download page at http://developer.novell.com/research/ebook.htm. This reader allows you to view the book, navigate through the content, and print it out if you so desire. There’s even an option to have the eBook reader read the text to you! It’s fun to listen to for a while, but if you’re like me, the computer-synthesized voice probably isn’t something you’ll want to listen to for very long. For those of you who are unable to attend BrainShare, we still look forward to your feedback. Drop me an e-mail and let me know what we can do to better meet your needs with AppNotes and DeveloperNet University. My e-mail address is [email protected]. Until next time, Gamal B. Herbon Editor-in-Chief 1 Contents March 2002 F E A T U R E A R T I C L E S ( S potligh t on iC h a in 2. 0 ) 4 Novell iChain 2.0 Installation and Configuration Quick Start Neil Cashell, Shane Johns Highlights new features and enhanced capabilities of iChain 2.0 and provides a quick-start installation and configuration guide. 35 What’s New in Novell BorderManager 3.7? Scott Jones Examines the new features planned for version 3.7 of Novell BorderManager, Novell’s popular firewall/Virtual Private Networking (VPN) solution. 45 Link Level Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance in NetWare 6 Sudarshan S, Piyush Rai Discusses how the NetWare 6 platform provides infrastructure and support for multihoming, load balancing, and fault tolerance. 54 Creating Applets for Novell GroupWise with Advansys Formativ Grant Johnson Introduces Advansys Formativ, a third-party tool that adds applet functionality to Novell GroupWise 6 and 5.5, thus providing a new way for developers and users to automate and extend the GroupWise 32-bit Windows client. HOW-TO ARTIC L E S 70 How to Uninstall Novell Account Management 2.1 for Windows NT Patrice Clement Outlines the proper procedures for uninstalling Novell Account Management (NAM) 2.1 for Windows NT prior to migrating to NAM 2.1 for Windows 2000 in a Windows2000/Active Directory environment. 79 How to Extend the NetWare Scripting Environment by Creating UCX Components Srivathsa M Showcases the creation of a Universal Component Extensions (UCX) component to access Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) services and the usage of this comonent from NetWare scripting languages. www.no vel l .co m /appnotes 2 S E CTIONS 93 Net Management Beyond the Basics - A Look at the File Caching SET Parameters from the NetWare Remote Management Utility Network Novice - Overview of the ConsoleOne Utility Directory Primer - Making a Much Improved eDirectory with Transitive Synchronization Tips and Tricks - How to See TCP/IP Statistics on the Console, Persistent vs. Non-Persistent SET Parameters in NetWare 5 and 6, Get Around Networking Sites with the NetWare Web Ring, Creating Filter Exceptions for RCONSOLE, How to Auto Close the NLM Screen, How a Program