Hi,
I believe there is a remote console using Telnet/SSH you can use as well if you want, Novell are now using Linux as a platform, so some of the servers you may encounter may run using Suse as a base. That is where my experience ends with Novell though.
Thanks.
Andrew.
-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Hergert [mailto:t.hergert@badgerassoc.org]
Sent: 27 March 2008 13:44
To: vincent@vanitallie.net; Blind sysadmins list
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] novell
Vincent,
I am still managing a duel server environment Novell and Windows. Novell
has been pretty easy. The Windows based management component called nwadmin
is mostly speech friendly. A bit of mouse/jaws cursor may be needed
ocassionally.
I also have to access the server screens itself and that I do with a remote
console session using vocal-eyes and a hardware synthesizer. The only
times I've needed sighted assistance is for serious issues where the boot
process would halt prior to the ability to login. Then I have to have
sighted help at the server itself.
I believe there's a way which I never bothered to try, where you could load
a dos screen reader on the server itself and it may indeed function properly
after the operating system is loaded. It's basically a dos machine. We're
using Novell 5.1. Not sure what has changed in later versions.
While Novell servers can be tough to get optimized, once their up, they
rarely need to be rebooted. Think I last rebooted ours last October
sometime.
From: "Vincent van Itallie"