'Classic Netware' poll

If you like to have your voice heard .. here's a poll I found via a 
Novell Tech Support Mailling List

Do you still run any 'Classic netware' products?
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=538

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Video storage

Hello all,

I have been coming across staff and students requiring more space to
store video footage. At present we have a media lab, which we back up
over the network. 

These computers are used by the staff and students doing media studies,
hence there is not much available time for other areas to use them. I
was wanting to hear what other schools are doing in this area. Do you
have a couple of computers for other subject areas? What do you do
regarding storage of the video? Has anyone found a good method to
compress the video whilst maintaining the quality? What software do you
use? Different software for windows and Macs?

Any tips/personal experiences would be appreciated.  

Thanks

Robert Richmond

M.IT, B.Sc, MCP, CNA, CompTIA A+, HDA
IT Manager Operations
Redlands College
38 Anson Road
Wellington Point
QLD    4160
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Re: XEN and iSCSI

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<div>HI all</div>
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<div>I haven't put to many posts up but I need some help</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>We are running Zenworks Ver7 Sp2</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>In some labs we have scratch drives for multimedia </div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>I have now noticed that the labs that have the two drives now wont image correctly when restoring the&nbsp;image after it has finished on the reboot it now says that it can't find the OS</div>
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<div>If I take a look at the drives using partition Magic it creates two partitions on drive 1</div>
<div>one active one not allocated</div>
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<div>Drive 2 is correct</div>
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Re: Video storage

Hi Robert,
Yep, we have them running large local drives and then backing up to
removable storage that they are responsible for (ie. the teachers or the
students). When we get our new massive storage SAN we'll look to back
them up then... (My CX200 is maxxed pretty much)
Perhaps DivX is a good format - might be worth the purchase - the
quality is excellent (filesizes for full movie length videos are 400 -
700MB). I think ClickView uses DivX too. No probs with that.
Regards,
Ben.

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>>> "Robert Richmond" <RRichmond <at> redlands.qld.edu.au> 3/09/2007 8:06 pm
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Hello all,

I have been coming across staff and students requiring more space to
store video footage. At present we have a media lab, which we back up
over the network. 

These computers are used by the staff and students doing media
studies,
hence there is not much available time for other areas to use them. I
was wanting to hear what other schools are doing in this area. Do you
have a couple of computers for other subject areas? What do you do
regarding storage of the video? Has anyone found a good method to
compress the video whilst maintaining the quality? What software do
you
use? Different software for windows and Macs?

Any tips/personal experiences would be appreciated.  

Thanks

Robert Richmond

M.IT, B.Sc, MCP, CNA, CompTIA A+, HDA
IT Manager Operations
Redlands College
38 Anson Road
Wellington Point
QLD    4160
Phone: 07 3286 0271
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Hi Robert,
Yep, we have them running large local drives and then backing up to
removable storage that they are responsible for (ie. the teachers or the
students). When we get our new massive storage SAN we'll look to back
them up then... (My CX200 is maxxed pretty much)
Perhaps DivX is a good format - might be worth the purchase - the
quality is excellent (filesizes for full movie length videos are 400 -
700MB). I think ClickView uses DivX too. No probs with that.
Regards,
Ben.

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Christian Outreach College Brisbane
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>>> "Robert Richmond" <RRichmond <at> redlands.qld.edu.au> 3/09/2007 8:06 pm
>>>
Hello all,

I have been coming across staff and students requiring more space to
store video footage. At present we have a media lab, which we back up
over the network. 

These computers are used by the staff and students doing media
studies,
hence there is not much available time for other areas to use them. I
was wanting to hear what other schools are doing in this area. Do you
have a couple of computers for other subject areas? What do you do
regarding storage of the video? Has anyone found a good method to
compress the video whilst maintaining the quality? What software do
you
use? Different software for windows and Macs?

Any tips/personal experiences would be appreciated.  

Thanks

Robert Richmond

M.IT, B.Sc, MCP, CNA, CompTIA A+, HDA
IT Manager Operations
Redlands College
38 Anson Road
Wellington Point
QLD    4160
Phone: 07 3286 0271
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OES2 Beta

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<div>Anyone had a fiddle with the OES 2 Public Beta yet?</div>
<div>Does it have the Native Windows Domain Controller Functionlity in the beta?</div>
<div>I haven't been able to find it.. </div>
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<div>IONA College </div>
<div>Phone: 07-3906-8942</div>
<div>Fax: 07-3893-8800</div>
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XEN, iSCSI etc .. whew

Hi guys,
After about 7 days, of various builds, research, (and more than a few interruptions), I think I finally have
a functioning XEN configuration.

For those who are interested, here are the running specs.

Dell Poweredge 1950
Quad Core XEON 1.8Ghz
16GB Ram
2 x 146GB SAS (mirrored)
Dual Broadcom onboard 1GBe
Dual Intel GBe (PCI)

iSCSI SAN
Proware
8 x 250GB SATA drives
2 x 1GBe

Running SLES10SP1 on the PE1950, built onto the local 146GB drive
Setup Network bonding, so all 4 network cards are running and failover
Setup iSCSI Initiator and mounted a 200GB target under /var/lib/xen/images

Booted into XEN kernel
Created a XEN VM running SLES10SP1, image living on the SAN (in /var/lib/xen/images/)
Configured the XEN VM to also use the network bonding, so all 4 LAN connections are failover from within the
XEN VM.

I now have a web server running up on the VM, and it appears to be functioninal etc.

As I said, lots of research, and quite a bit of tweaking.  YAST2 is nice, but doesn't really cut it when it comes
to network bonding.  Also XEN needs some config file editing to get it playing properly with bonding.

If anyone is interested, I'm happy to try and supply some information to help others.  Maybe it's a Cool
Solution waiting to be written 

Cheers.

Michael Mollard
Information Systems Administrator
molm <at> cvxmck.edu.au
Clairvaux MacKillop College
Brisbane Australia.
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Bear Solutions

Hi All,

Is anyone here running CMS/IP from Bear Solutions for printing and
photocopying cost recovery?

Thanks,

Jon

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iSCSI and SLES10 question

Hi all,
I'm working my way through my iSCSI implementation.
I'm at the stage where I have my SLES10SP1 server talking to the iSCSI target.  Which tools should I be using to
format, mount etc the iSCSI target?  Is YAST2 able to do this or do I need to hand edit config files?

Any pointers?

Thanks.

Michael Mollard
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Brisbane Australia.
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Critical security vulnerability in NWSPOOL.DLL

I don't know if this is old news to some, but i noticed this in my
latest SANS mailout:

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-57/advisory/

It's rated critical, and no authentication is required to exploit it.

Patch here:
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=VOXNZb-6t_g~

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http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-57/advisory/

It's rated critical, and no authentication is required to exploit it.

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Re: Video storage

Thanks Ben. 

We have just upgraded to a CX300 due to our array running out of space.
Its been a good exercise so far ...  .

Our CX200 was maxed out as well. Hence the upgrade. We are now using
VMWare to virtualise our environment.
All seems to be working well so far.

I might get the trial version and see how it goes first. It would be
good to have a universal format I am sure.

Robert Richmond

M.IT, B.Sc, MCP, CNA, CompTIA A+, HDA
IT Manager Operations
Redlands College
38 Anson Road
Wellington Point
QLD    4160
Phone: 07 3286 0271
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>>> "Ben Davis" <Ben <at> brisbane.coc.edu.au> 06/09/07 11:46 AM >>>
Hi Robert,
Yep, we have them running large local drives and then backing up to
removable storage that they are responsible for (ie. the teachers or the
students). When we get our new massive storage SAN we'll look to back
them up then... (My CX200 is maxxed pretty much)
Perhaps DivX is a good format - might be worth the purchase - the
quality is excellent (filesizes for full movie length videos are 400 -
700MB). I think ClickView uses DivX too. No probs with that.
Regards,
Ben.

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Christian Outreach College Brisbane
email: ben <at> brisbane.coc.edu.au 
web: www.brisbane.coc.edu.au ( http://www.brisbane.coc.edu.au/ )
phone: +61 7 3347 5937
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>>> "Robert Richmond" <RRichmond <at> redlands.qld.edu.au> 3/09/2007 8:06 pm
>>>
Hello all,

I have been coming across staff and students requiring more space to
store video footage. At present we have a media lab, which we back up
over the network. 

These computers are used by the staff and students doing media
studies,
hence there is not much available time for other areas to use them. I
was wanting to hear what other schools are doing in this area. Do you
have a couple of computers for other subject areas? What do you do
regarding storage of the video? Has anyone found a good method to
compress the video whilst maintaining the quality? What software do
you
use? Different software for windows and Macs?

Any tips/personal experiences would be appreciated.  

Thanks

Robert Richmond

M.IT, B.Sc, MCP, CNA, CompTIA A+, HDA
IT Manager Operations
Redlands College
38 Anson Road
Wellington Point
QLD    4160
Phone: 07 3286 0271
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