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What about the NLMs that Novell doesn’t provide? In other words, what about third-party NLMs?
Examples of these include backup software, network card drivers, software metering programs, and
server-level virus protection programs. If you’re the type of person who doesn’t go for nit-picky record
keeping, then keeping track of these revision levels will be a nightmare for you. This is particularly true
if you have multiple servers in the mix and have multiple folks working on these servers; you never
know if someone has updated one server but not the other.
Figure 13.2 Getting a list of modules from an IntranetWare 4.11 server.
If this seems like a lot of work to do manually, you’re right! Go download (for free) the CONFIG.NLM
tool (along with the Config Reader) from Novell’s site:
http://support.novell.com
CONFIG.NLM reads the configuration of your server and writes a CONFIG.TXT report to your
SYS:SYSTEM directory (see Figure 13.3). The Windows-based Config Reader will read the output that
CONFIG.NLM drops off in the system directory and process it to make it easy to read.
The Config Reader, shown in Figure 13.4, automatically downloads current information from the Novell
Web site and then shows you an overview of your system, points out NLMs that are out of date, and
automates the comparison of two given servers. This makes it much easier for you to see how one server
differs from another.
Figure 13.3 CONFIG.NLM must be loaded on each server before you can use the Config Reader.