Standard

Competency Areas:

Hours:

NetWare File System

Class/Week

4

NetWare Integrity and Security

D. Lab/Week

6

NetWare System and User Account Automation

P. Lab/Week

0

NetWare File Server

Credit Hours

7

NetWare Workstation

NetWare Printing

NetWare Communications

Network Software Installation

Prerequisite: CIS 140

Course Guide

Competency

After completing this section, the student will:

Hours

Class

D. Lab

P. Lab

NETWARE FILE SYSTEM

5

7

 0

File system basics

Explain the basic concepts of network file storage, including volume and directory structures.

Describe a directory, including its main function, hierarchical structure, directory name, and directory path.

Volume

Describe a volume and its technical specifications.

List the system-created directories on the SYS: volume and describe their contents.

Mapping and network drives

Access files systems by mapping network drives to volumes and directories.

Navigate volumes and directories by using network drives.

Access network applications by mapping search drives to application directories.

Volume, directory, and file maintenance

Display and modify file system information on volumes, directories, and files.

Perform directory management tasks such as creating, deleting, and renaming.

Perform file management tasks such as copying, moving, deleting, salvaging, and purging.

NetWare name service 

Identify the components and requirements involved in name space support

Install OS/2 and Macintosh name space support.

NETWARE INTEGRITY AND SECURITY

5

7

0 

System login and account management

Explain and perform the login procedure.

Describe login security including user account restrictions, time restrictions, station restrictions, and intruder detection.

Set up network user accounts and apply account restrictions.

Set up group accounts and user account management.

Security levels

Identify the levels and functions of network security.

Describe packet signature.

Describe NetWare x.xx file system security, including the concepts of trustees, directory and file rights inheritance, Inherited Rights Mask, and effective rights.

Calculate effective rights.

SYSCON and FILER

Make a trustee assignment and apply rights in SYSCON and FILER.

Volume, directory, and file security

Describe directory and file attributes and use in a file system security plan.

Implement a file system security plan using command line and menu utilities.

System and file integrity

Explain System Fault Tolerance (SFT) and describe implementation.

Implement a file system security plan using command line and menu utilities.

Describe SMS and strategies for implementing successful storage management.

Use SBACKUP (NetWare’s utility for implementing SMS) to perform a simple backup and restore.

Describe the procedures used to protect against virus intrusion.

NETWARE SYSTEM AND USER ACCOUNT AUTOMATION

5

7

0 

Configuration files

Describe the function of the CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and NET.CFG configuration files.

Alter workstation configuration files so that they contain all pertinent information to automate the process of connecting to the network, loading the DOS Requester, and logging in to the network.

Script files

Describe the types of login scripts and explain how they coordinate at login.

Explain login script commands.

Propose standard procedures that are executed via login scripts.

Plan a system of login scripts for user login.

Build and execute the plan using system and user login scripts.

Create server batch files that perform specific tasks such as remotely downing the server.

Menus

Describe the components of a user menu system.

Describe NetWare x.xx menu command language, and plan a simple user menu.

Build and execute a NetWare x.xx menu.

Server security

Implement console security features on the server by assigning a console password and placing the server in a secure location.

NETWARE FILE SERVER

5

11

0 

Functions

Describe server function, interface, and communication with the network.

Console commands

Describe consol commands and identify the function of commands often used by administrators.

NLMs

Describe NLMs, explain how they are loaded, and identify their types.

Identify the purpose and function of the major NLMs such as INSTALL, MONITOR, and UPS.

Remote access

Use RCONSOLE.EXE to connect remotely to the server and describe the purpose and function of the available options in RCONSOLE.

Startup

Perform server startup procedure.

Configuration files

Identify and describe server configuration files.

Identify commands and options used to customize the appropriate server configuration file.

Select the appropriate utility and edit the server configuration files.

Memory

Describe the tables, blocks, and buffers that are important to the workings of server memory.

Determine NetWare x.xx server memory requirements for given cases.

Identify NetWare x.xx memory pools and describe the features, content resource use, and effect of each.

Identify the relationships and balances needed between server memory components to maintain optimum server performance.

Use MONITOR to view server memory statistics.

Describe server console commands related to memory.

Performance

Identify components that affect server and network performance.

MONITOR command

Use MONITOR to verify server and network performance and to view resource and processor utilization.

Analyze the data presented on the disk information screen of MONITOR to determine the health of the server’s hard disks.

SET command

List interactions between various SET parameters and the considerations for changing settings.

Select and implement the appropriate SET parameter needed to alter network performance based on a given case.

Server maintenance utilities

Identify the purpose and procedures of server maintenance utilities such as BINDFIX, BIDREST, and VREPPAIR.

Repair the server bindery using BINDFIX and BINDREST

Describe the reasons for VREPAIR use.

Use VREPAIR to remove name space support from a volume.

NETWARE WORKSTATION

5

7

0 

Client types

Identify the client types that are supported in NetWare x.xx.

Workstation communications

Describe workstation communications with the network and list the files required to connect a DOS workstation to the network.

Describe the function of the software necessary to connect a workstation to the network, including local operating systems, NetWare DOS Requester, communications protocols, and network board.

Connect a workstation to the network by loading the appropriate DOS workstation files.

Workstation commands

Identify, navigate, and perform similar basic functions using a DOS text utility, a command line utility, and a graphical utility.

Activate and navigate help for each type of utility.

Client software installation and configuration

Perform a DOS and MS Windows client installation using the NetWare client installation software.

Modify the NET.CGC file to configure the ODI environment.

Customize the NET.CFG file with parameters that affect the NetWare DOS Requester.

Diskless workstations

Describe the method used to support diskless client stations, and identify the files used with the method.

NETWARE PRINTING

5

7

0 

Components

Describe the basic components of network printing and how they interrelate in processing a print job.

Describe the general steps necessary for setting up the components.

Configuration

Set up a network printing environment by creating and configuring a related and functional print queue, printer, and print server.

Set up network printing hardware by bringing up a print server on a dedicated workstation or NetWare server and connecting a printer to the network through a NetWare server or a DOS workstation.

Printer use

Send print jobs to network printers by redirecting print jobs with CAPTURE or NPRINT.

Perform basic network printing maintenance tasks such as viewing and modifying printing information in PCONSOLE.

Printer management

Manage print jobs in the print queue by viewing their properties, pausing, rushing, delaying printing, and deleting jobs in the queue.

Describe PRINTDEF and PRINTCON use to customize print jobs.

NETWARE COMMUNICATIONS

5

7

0 

NetWare Basic Message Handling Service (MHS)

Describe NetWare Basic Message Handling Service (MHS).

Describe the steps required to install Basic MHS on a NetWare.

Perform administrative tasks such as adding a user and creating a distribution list, using the Basic MRS Administration software.

First Mail

Send, read, and file mail in First Mail.

NETWORK SOFTWARE INSTALLATION

5

7

 0

Application software

Identify basic guidelines for selecting application software.

List basic steps to be completed when loading applications.

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