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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introducing IntranetWare
Ready for the Intranet and Internet
Intranet Equality
The Internet Connection
The Web Publishing Advantage
NDS Enables Unmatched Security and Manageability
Enhanced File and Print Services Help Save You Money
Measureable Return on Your Investment
Preserve Your Networking Invesment
One Enterprise, One Manageable System
New Features Simplify Management
Add ManageWise® to Further Reduce Management Costs
System Requirements
Business computing and networks are synonymous today. In the decade that Novell has been providing its industry-leading networking products, users have come to take the presence of networks for granted. They also look to their networks to support a constantly expanding range of services. Today's business networks are assimilating services originally developed for the global Internet, and in the process they are gaining new flexibility in the ways they give people access to computing resources and information anytime, anywhere. We call today's business networks intranets.
Eight key services define the full-service intranet: file, print, directory, security, messaging, Web publishing, wide-area connectivity and management. Novell brings these services together through IntranetWare™, an intranet-ready platform including Web, FTP and Internet access services that builds upon the foundation of NetWare 4™ with its superior file and print, security, management and directory services. Novell's GroupWise™ adds superior messaging, and more sophisticated management tools are available in ManageWise™.
Upgrading current NetWare® servers to IntranetWare allows organizations to preserve their investments in training and network infrastructure while gaining the benefits of a full-service intranet.
READY FOR THE INTRANET AND INTERNET
IntranetWare includes a high-performance Web server so you can publish information on a private corporate intranet Web site or on the Internet's World Wide Web. It also provides all the software you need to give your users access to Web information. You can install Novell's best-selling TCP/IP on your workstations and servers. Or you can give IPX™-only workstations access to the Web and other TCP/IP resources using Novell's IPX/IP gateway, which is part of IntranetWare. Multiprotocol routing functions, also included, let you set up a WAN connection to your Internet service provider using leased lines, ISDN or frame relay eliminating the need for an external router.
Complementing its Web publishing and FTP tools, IntranetWare provides two options for connecting your users to the TCP/IP resources of the private corporate intranet and the global Internet.
You can choose to deploy IP to some or all of the workstations on your intranet. Novell is the leading provider of TCP/IP to the desktop, through its LAN WorkPlace and LAN WorkGroup products. IntranetWare enhances Novell's TCP/IP capabilities. Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) is now provided, making it easier to manage IP addresses on the network. And DNS (domain name system) services are included to simplify users' access to intranet information sites.
If you prefer to avoid the administrative overhead of configuring TCP/IP on every workstation, you can give your Windows 3.x and Windows 95 users transparent access to the Web and other TCP/IP services on your corporate intranet or the Internet using the Novell IPX/IP gateway in IntranetWare.
Standard IPX users connecting through the gateway can simply use their Web browsers and other WinSock 1.1-compliant TCP programs as if TCP/IP were configured on their desktops. The gateway owns the only IP address and handles protocol translations, providing users transparent access to Web pages and other TCP/IP services.
The IPX/IP gateway's integration with NDS gives you the ability to apply sophisticated access controls, restricting intranet and Internet access for users, groups and organizational units. You can control what intranet and Internet services and IP hosts they are allowed to access and what times of the day they have access to these services.
Organizations that use IPX networks and connect to the Internet through IntranetWare's gateway gain an added level of security--essentially, a natural firewall. Because there is only one IP address on the network, at the server, the IPX servers and workstations on the network are simply invisible to potential intruders.
IntranetWare provides concurrent routing of TCP/IP and IPX over a wide selection of LAN media. Additionally, IntranetWare allows you to connect your intranet to a wide-area corporate intranet or the global Internet over leased lines, ISDN, frame relay and ATM. In addition to providing WAN connections to Internet services, IntranetWare allows you to use the Internet to connect geographically dispersed IPX LANs.
Using a feature called IP relay, IntranetWare's routing software also lets you tunnel connections to your IPX-based intranets over the Internet. This allows you to build a virtual private network using the Internet without having to make any changes to the desktop computers in your office.
The lure of intranet technologies is that they gives users an exciting new way to share up-to-date information, using their Web browsers, no matter what kind of workstations they have. IntranetWare lets you transform your existing network infrastructure into an intranet-ready solutions platform.
IntranetWare includes NetWare Web Server™, the industry's best-performing Web server software. Using the Web server, you can publish static information as HTML documents. Or you can take advantage of the Web server's L-CGI and R-CGI application programming interfaces (APIs), the included NetBasic interpreter and the Java support in IntranetWare to create dynamic Web-based applications.
Users on your intranet have access to these documents and applications through any standard Web browser. The browser provides a universal client for Windows, Windows 95 and Windows NT PCs, for Macintosh computers and for UNIX® workstations. For Windows users, the market-leading Netscape Navigator browser is included as part of IntranetWare.
The Web server is tightly integrated with Novell Directory Services™ (NDS™), making it the only Web server that lets you browse a global directory to locate any information or network resource, regardless of where it is on your intranet.
IntranetWare also includes the software you need to set up an FTP server for TCP/IP file transfers on your intranet or across the Internet.
NDS ENABLES UNMATCHED SECURITY AND MANAGEABILITY
Novell Directory Services, at the heart of IntranetWare, gives you seamless access to all authorized network resources. This access, management and control mechanism provides far more than a simple listing of users and resources on the network. It is a key element in making IntranetWare the most secure, most manageable platform you can find for your intranet.
NDS is the only directory powerful enough to manage all network resources--on a single server or on a worldwide multiserver network. Users are connected transparently to resources on the network without having to worry about the underlying complexities of what resource is connected to which server. Administrators can manage the entire network from almost any network workstation--using NWAdmin and RCONSOLE, which are part of IntranetWare, or the more sophisticated management tools in Novell's ManageWise or other Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) consoles, available separately.
Rights and restrictions assigned through NDS-based management tools contribute to IntranetWare's unsurpassed security--security designed from the ground up to make the NetWare 4 foundation of IntranetWare a C2 trusted network. That means the entire network system--clients, servers and the media between--is a secure computing environment.
Other important elements are a highly secure password encryption standard with a two-part key, packet signing of all data traveling across the LAN, and sophisticated auditing features that allow administrators and independent auditors to monitor security policies and security-related events on the network. WAN connections benefit from packet filtering provided in the routing elements. These can be combined with the firewall and access control elements of the IPX/IP gateway to provide security for internet connections.
ENHANCED FILE AND PRINT SERVICES HELP YOU SAVE MONEY
In IntranetWare, Novell's industry-leading file and print services allow you to store more data in less space by automatically compressing files and using the block suballocation in IntranetWare--features that can cut your disk requirements in half. And you can automatically move seldom-used data to less expensive storage devices. That can provide significant relief for your hardware budget.
The automatic file-by-file compression in IntranetWare is performed as a background task, with no effect on server performance. Administrators choose which files, directories or volumes to compress.
IntranetWare provides enhanced print services that enable users to locate and use printers anywhere on the network through the NDS directory.
Each print server enables users to share as many as 256 printers, and multiple print servers can be supported on the network.
MEASURABLE RETURN ON YOUR INVESTMENT
There is a consensus among networking experts, analysts and customers that Novell solutions significantly reduce the costs of owning a network and that NDS is the link that enables cost-effective distributed computing.
NDS
DRAMATICALLY REDUCES management and administration costs--the primary costs of
operating a network. Because NDS provides single-point administration for the entire
network, network administration costs (staffing, travel and time) are 14 percent
lower for IntranetWare than they are for Windows NT Server (International Data Corp.
survey, 1995).
ADDING
MANAGEWISE, Novell's end-to-end management solution, delivers an even more significant
return on investment. ManageWise pays for itself through cost savings in only one
month, saves approximately $1,000 per server per year in management costs and reduces
network downtime by 50 percent (IDC report, 1996).
NETWARE
NETWORK MANAGERS are finding they can increase the ratio of users per server
nearly 50 percent (IDC survey, 1995). That ratio will be improved on servers that
take advantage of the support for symmetrical multiprocessing offered in IntranetWare.
With more users per server, you'll see a significant saving in your hardware budget.
UNPARALLELED
SUPPORT for the mix of existing computer systems--DOS, UNIX, Windows, Macintosh
and host--that is typical in today's heterogeneous computing environments preserves
your IT investments and lets your users work in the environments where they are
most efficient.
PRESERVE YOUR NETWORKING INVESTMENT
IntranetWare leverages your existing investment in network infrastructure, in applications and in your IT staff's knowledge base. IntranetWare users can take advantage of the thousands of tested and approved NetWare Loadable Modules™ (NLM™) and more than 200,000 certified professionals who support NetWare worldwide, with 125,000 candidates in the certification process.
Novell's support for open standards--including TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, LDAP, DHCP, SNMP and the Java development platform--let you move into the future confident that your investment in NetWare and IntranetWare will continue to pay dividends for years to come.
Java has quickly become the preeminent development environment for creating applications that enable transactions, data sharing, electronic commerce, multimedia and publishing over intranets and the Internet. IntranetWare, Novell's Java platform, will run Java OS extensions in a high-performance Java execution environment and support developers who want to make databases and other legacy applications "Web aware."
ONE ENTERPRISE, ONE MANAGEABLE SYSTEM
Because IntranetWare is based on NDS, it gives you control of the network from a single location-regardless of how heterogeneous or distributed your network may be. It integrates DOS, Macintosh, Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT and OS/2 environments into a cohesive, manageable system. In addition, IntranetWare is clearly unequaled for PC-to-host integration with Novell's line of host connectivity products for IBM, DEC VAX and UNIX available separately.
INTELSAT SLASHES HARDWARE EXPENSES
NEW FEATURES SIMPLIFY MANAGEMENT
IntranetWare provides additional new features to save you management time and money, including:
MIGRATION
UTILITIES SIGNIFICANTLY ease the task of migrating accounts and files from NetWare
3™ to IntranetWare
HARDWARE
DETECTION speeds up IntranetWare installation by automatically discovering LAN
cards, hard disks, CD-ROM drives and other devices in a server and installing the
correct drivers
NEW
GRAPHICAL ADMINISTRATION TOOLS help you better manage network and NDS environments
CONNECTS
ALL WINDOWS DESKTOPS BETTER than any other network, allowing you to take best
advantage of your existing investment
NDS-BASED
LICENSING SERVICES allow third-party developers with applications enabled for
the licensing services API (LSAPI) to meter software usage
THE
NETWARE APPLICATION LAUNCHER™ works with NDS to manage desktop applications allowing
administrators to easily provide upgrades or new applications to users, regardless
of where they are when they access the network.
INTRANETWARE
brings symmetrical multiprocessing to today's highest performing intranet backbone,
enabling it to support more users and network services, such as large databases
and intranets, with less hardware.
INTRANETWARE
TAKES FAULT TOLERANCE to the next level with improved crash recovery that enables
the IntranetWare file server to self-diagnose and automatically recover in the event
of a failure. Information about the source of the crash--the hardware or software
that caused the problem--is displayed on the console.
ADD MANAGEWISE TO FURTHER REDUCE MANAGEMENT COSTS
A companion product to IntranetWare, ManageWise is the most comprehensive management solution that lets you manage and optimize your IntranetWare servers and Windows NT application engines. It gives you an integrated view of network traffic; automated network hardware and software inventory; remote control; SNMP device management, virus protection and software management. ManageWise detects over 400 network problems, automatically fixing many and recommending solutions for others--before problems have a chance to become serious. Managewise provides the information you need to avoid costly downtime and fine tune components to ensure you get the most out of your network investment.
SERVER REQUIREMENTS
SERVERS.
Most PCI, ISA, EISA, Micro Channel architecture 80386, 80486 and Pentium-based
computers can be used as IntranetWare servers.
SERVER
ADAPTERS. More than 60 different adapters have been tested and approved for use
with IntranetWare. Any ODI compatible adapter for local routing; source route bridging
requires token ring adapter with promiscuous-mode driver or source router accelerator
that supports source route bridging.
WAN
ADAPTERS. Any WAN ODI or AIO compatible adapter for WAN routing. Provides data
rates of 1200 bit/s to 2.048 Mbit/s. Supported interfaces include: RS232, V.35,
RS422/449, X.21, DS0, DS1, BRI, PRI.
WORKSTATION REQUIREMENTS
WORKSTATIONS
IBM,
PC/XT, PC/AT and compatible models
IBM PS/2
and compatible models
Apple Macintosh
Sun Microsystems
Hewlett-Packard
IBM RS
6000
SCO UNIX
UNIX NFS
workstations
WORKSTATION ADAPTERS
More than 70 adapters have been certified to work with workstations on an IntranetWare network.
SOFTWARE
INTRANETWARE CLIENT FOR WINDOWS 95
COMPLETELY
INTEGRATED with the Windows 95 graphical interfaces such as the Network Neighborhood,
Explorer and the Network Control Panel
32-BIT
UTILITIES like the NetWare Administrator make network setup and administration
simple
IPX/IP
gateway support
INTRANETWARE CLIENT FOR WINDOWS NT
FULL-FEATURED
CLIENT including NDS support, login scripts and integrated IP
SUPPORTS
WINDOWS NT 3.51 AND 4.0 IntranetWare Client 4.0 for Windows NT can be downloaded
from the Web at http://support.novell.com/; client information can be obtained from
http://netware.novell.com/clients/.
INTRANETWARE CLIENT FOR DOS/WINDOWS 3.X
USES
ONLY 4KB of conventional memory, leaving the remaining memory for DOS/Windows
applications
INCREASES
NETWORK PERFORMANCE with client-side caching and 32-bit LAN drivers and protocols
IPX/IP
gateway support
INTRANETWARE CLIENT FOR OS/2
NDS
ACCESS for Global WINOS2 and DOS sessions
SUPPORTS
OS/2 2.x and Warp
INTRANETWARE CLIENT FOR MACINTOSH OS
FULL
ACCESS to network resources with IPX or IP
DRAG
AND DROP NDS NetWare server and printer objects to the desktop
SUPPORTS
APPLE SYSTEM 7.1 AND ABOVE
NETWARE APPLICATION LAUNCHER
CENTRALIZED
MANAGEMENT of network applications
CONSISTENT
ACCESS To applications anywhere
PRINTERS AND NEST™ DEVICES
More than 24 NEST printers and 27 non-NEST printers have been certified to work with workstations on an IntranetWare network.
BACKUP/RESTORE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
More than 50 backup devices are compatible with IntranetWare and more than nine backup/restore software applications support IntranetWare. For a complete list of certified IntranetWare servers, server adapters, ODI adapters and backup/restore hardware or software, contact your Novell reseller, or visit the Novell Labs Web page at http://labs.novell.com.
NETWARE AWARDS
IntranetWare builds upon NetWare 4, the most highly acclaimed network operating system of all time. Year after year, it has won all major industry awards, including:
PC MAGAZINE'S
EDITOR'S CHOICE (NetWare SFT IIIR, May, 1996)
BYTE
MAGAZINE'S READER'S CHOICE AWARD (Best NOS, two years in a row)
NETWORK
COMPUTING WELL CONNECTED AWARD (Best NOS, two years in a row)
COMPUTER
RESELLER NEWS CHANNEL CHAMPION (two years in a row)
LAN
TIMES BEST NOS (six years in a row)
LAN
MAGAZINE PRODUCT OF THE YEAR (1995)
INFOWORLD
READERS' CHOICE NETWORKING PRODUCT OF THE YEAR (1995)
PC WEEK'S
TOP PRODUCT OF THE YEAR (1994).
Copyright 1996