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Would you like to bulk modify, manage, create, import, or delete tens, hundreds, or thousands of eDirectory, NDS, NetMail and GroupWise users in a single session? How about changing extended schema values or eDir/NDS and/or GroupWise passwords, Group Membership, or Distribution Lists for hundreds/thousands of users based on the contents of information from your HR or student registration database? Looking for a solution to update eDirectory information based on your corporate SAP, Siebel or other ERP or portal solution? Looking to enhance your DirXML and Novell Identity Management solution to include enhanced bulk user management?

Novell eDirectory Support

EMU supports managing user accounts on ALL versions of Novell eDirectory on all platforms (Novell OES, NetWare, SUSE Linux, SUN Solaris and Windows NT/Windows 2000/2003). EMU supports creating home directories and assigning home directory and volume restrictions on NetWare 6.x, 5.x and 4.x on either NSS or Traditional NetWare volumes.

Import User Accounts Based on Information in a Text File

As long as your HR database system of student records management system can export account information into a comma separated value text file, EMU can use that information to bulk create or bulk modify user information. Have you had a recent phone number area code change and need to update the information in eDirectory? EMU has access to all attributes and values in your environment.

Auto-detect GroupWise and NetMail Systems

When you launch EMU, it automatically detects whether GroupWise or NetMail has been installed in your environment and checks to confirm whether your user has supervisor rights to the correct objects.

LAN/WAN Configuration Options

When you start EMU, it allows you to configure which areas of your Wide Area Network you want to work with. This significantly enhances EMU's speed when working over slower WAN links. We recommend you use EMU on a workstation that is connected at LAN speeds to a local Read/Write or Master Replica of the eDirectory partition containing the GroupWise domain and post offices you are working on (rather than accessing that information over a WAN). The speed of any WAN links will be the restricting performance factor when using EMU.

Performance Considerations

To date, the largest NDS tree managed by EMU contained 80,000 user objects. The upper limit of objects that can be managed in one EMU session is a function of the speed and perfomance of your hardware and network configuration. Time to display information on 12,000 NDS users in a single container: 12 seconds. Time to display information on 12,000 GroupWise users in a single post office: 30 seconds. This benchmark was created on a Pentium II 350MHz computer with 128MB of RAM, running Windows 98, Client32 Version 3.1.0.0, connecting to a Pentium II 266 NetWare 5.0 server running GroupWise 5.5 on 256MB of RAM over a switched 10 megabit Ethernet network.

Following are settings that can increase performance when creating or managing large numbers of home directories. This information was taken from a Novell TID that describes how to improve performance when large directory structures are involved:

set dirty directory cache delay time = 0.5 seconds
set directory cache allocation wait time = 0.5 seconds
set maximum directory cache buffers = 4000
set minimum directory cache buffers = 2000

Rights Required

The administrator using EMU needs supervisor rights to the container in which users are going to be created; RWECMFA rights to the appropriate directory structure if home directories are being created; and the necessary rights to create, manage, and delete users in the GroupWise system. We recommend the user running EMU have an explicit Supervisor trustee assignment to the directory in which the users’ home directories are being created. This improves speed when creating or modifying large numbers of home directories.

Workstation Configuration

EMU requires the GroupWise (if you are managing GroupWise information) and Novell clients be installed. Please ensure that the Workstation Manager option (under custom installation) was selected when the client was installed. Depending on the version of the Novell client that is installed, this may have not been the default setting. This option is required for Novell's nwusergrp.ocx component. If Novell’s Workstation Manager was not active when you installed EMU, when you try to run EMU you will receive an error indicating that the nwusergrp.ocx could not be registered. Please uninstall EMU, reinstall the Novell client with the Workstation Manager component selected, and reinstall EMU.

Workstation Errors

If you are using Windows XP or Windows 2000 and get the following error: "Run-time error '339'; Component 'MSCOMCT2.OCX or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid.", this means your workstation installation is missing a file. Download this zip file to resolve this problem and extract the contents to your %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32 folder (where %WINDIR% is the installation directory for Windows). Run the following command at a DOS/command prompt:

%WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\REGSVR32.EXE %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\mscomct2.ocx Ex. C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\REGSVR32.EXE C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\MSCOMCT2.OCX

NOTE: A possible problem has been identified when running EMU on Windows XP workstations that have the ZENWorks 4 client installed. There appears to be a conflict between the ZENWorks 4 client and the Workstation Manager option that is required to support the APIs that are used with EMU. Until this conflict has been resolved, you might not be able to use the ZENWorks 4 client on Windows XP workstations that will be used with EMU. If you have this problem, we recommend you download the latest NetWare client.