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Basic tasks and concepts

• Booting up the NetManager
  • Boot menu
  • Serial console
  • "Filesystem check failed"
• Administration and Configuration
  • Using webadmin
  • Console and the Console Menu
  • Using the Joe editor
  • Command line and ssh access
  • Multi-configuration switching
  • Setting up ssh keys for other NetManagers/XenServers
• Updating and Upgrading
  • Updating to latest release
  • Upgrading to new operating system version
  • Support contracts

Features

• User Management
  • Add new user
  • Bulk creation from CSV
  • Import from SIMS
  • Changing passwords
  • Bulk password resets
• Web-serving
  • Main intranet website and additional Virtual hosts
  • Reverse proxying
  • Controlling access to webpages
  • Personal webpages
  • ...Other web-serving topics
• MySQL database server
• SSL certificates
• Web proxy
  • Filtering
  • Transparent authentication
  • Transparent proxying
  • Troubleshooting
  • Content filtering
  • ...Other web proxy topics
• Email
  • Definitions of mailboxes, aliases and distribution lists
  • Editing aliases and distribution lists
  • Autoreply/vacation messages
  • Filtering by content, attachment type and censorship
  • Spam filtering and virus-scanning
  • Remote sending (a.k.a SMTP AUTH)
  • Webmail hints and tips
  • ...Other email topics
• Calendars and Contacts
• Networking
  • IP Addresses
  • Aliases
  • VLAN
  • Troubleshooting
  • ...Other networking topics
• Firewalling
  • NAT
  • Port mapping
  • Logging
• VPN configuration
  • Server configuration
  • Client configuration walkthrough
• Chat/Instant Messaging
  • Server side?
  • Setting up Exodus
  • Setting up iChat?
• File Sharing and Storage
  • Create/Edit a Windows-accessible shared area
  • Writable shared areas
  • Setting up a dropbox share
  • iSCSI service
  • Virus-scanning
  • Problems connecting to shares
• UPS
  • Acting as a UPS network master
• NTP Time servers
  • Setting NetManager time from an external time source
  • Setting client machines' time from the NetManager
  • Manually setting NetManager time
• Active Directory integration
  • Joining a domain
  • Synchronising Users
  • Maintaining passwords

Hardware support

• HP Microserver as NetManager backup server

Whitepapers and worked examples

• Setting up secure guest wireless network

Advanced

• Internal configuration mechanisms
• Configuration file structure
• Partitioning very large RAID arrays
• Adding 5th drive to a Micro Backup Server
• Resizing non-GPT filesystems
• Resizing GPT partitions and filesystems
• Recovering a corrupt password database
• Using ipmitool to manage NetManager and other servers
• Using syslog to collect and forward logs
• Using ldapsearch to search LDAP (Active Directory)