Q: How is Novell File Reporter licensed?
A: Novell File Reporter is licensed against the Novell eDirectory tree name, or by the Active Directory forest root name.
Details:
Novell File Reporter is licensed against the Directory Service in use, and can be integrated with Novell Storage Manager. Novell has provided a tool for finding the forest root name in Active Directory.
Q: Does Novell File Reporter integrate with Novell Storage Manager?
A: Yes
Details:
Novell File Reporter can be integrated with Novell Storage Manager version 2.5.1 and later, but is not required for operation. The Novell Storage Manager integration allow for Policy Paths to be used as Storage Resources.
Q: What are the domain and forest functional levels required for Novell File Reporter?
A: Native 2003 or better native level is required.
Q: What are the system requirements for Novell File Reporter?
A: Depends on Platform
Details:
Q: How does Novell File Reporter report on the files stored on NAS devices?
A: With the release of Novell File Reporter 1.01 file reporting capability has been extended to support NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices in Active Directory managed networks. Because a NAS device is an appliance and is thus incapable of hosting an NFR Agent, Novell File Reporter uses an NFR Agent running on another server to collect scan information from the NAS device. In this type of scenario, the NFR Agent is serving as a "proxy agent."
Details:
The association between NFR Agent and the proxy agent is made in the nfrproxy.cfg file. For information on how to make these associations, refer to Chapter 8 of the Novell File Reporter 1.0.1 Installation Guide.
Q: How does Novell File Reporter report on the files stored in a server cluster?
A: The ability of Novell File Reporter 1.01 to support proxy agents also means that it can support clustered servers. This support includes both Windows server clusters in an Active Directory managed network and Novell server clusters in an eDirectory managed network that includes Novell Storage Manager. If you do not have Novell Storage Manager as part of your eDirectory managed network, you cannot use Novell File Reporter to report on clusters.
Details:
Novell File Reporter uses an NFR Agent running on another server to collect scan information from the server cluster resource (virtual server). In this type of scenario, the NFR Agent is serving as a "proxy agent" for the virtual server.
Associations between an NFR Agent and a virtual server are made in the nfrproxy.cfg file. For information on how to make these associations, refer to Chapter 9 of the Novell File Reporter Installation Guide.
Associations between an NFR Agent and a virtual server are made in the nfrproxy.cfg file. For information on how to make these associations, refer to Chapter 9 of the Novell File Reporter Installation Guide.
