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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
  • Bulk creation from CSV
  • Import from SIMS
  • Changing passwords
  • Bulk password resets
• Web serving
  • Reverse proxying
  • Controlling access to webpages
  • Personal webpages
  • Intranet
• MySQL database server
• Web proxy
  • Filtering
  • Transparent authentication
  • Transparent proxying
  • Troubleshooting
  • Content filtering?
• Email
  • Mailboxes, aliases and distribution lists
  • Splitting mail boxes
  • Censorship
  • Spam filtering
  • Configuring Exchange to allow system reports to be sent to Precedence and school admins
• Calendars?
• Networking
  • IP Addresses
  • Aliases
  • Bridging
  • VLAN
• Firewalling
  • NAT
  • Port mapping
• VPN configuration
  • Server configuration
  • Client configuration walkthrough
• Chat/Instant Messaging
  • Server side?
  • Setting up Exodus
  • Setting up iChat?
• File Sharing
  • Create/Edit a Windows-accessible shared area
  • Writable shared areas
  • Setting up a dropbox share
  • iSCSI service
• 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

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