User Guide

Optimizing the NetWare Server 39
Server Operating System Administration Guide
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August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Maximum number of open files
Turbo FAT index tables
TTS transactions
Router/server advertising
To tune the server for its particular processing load, three utilities are available
to check or set server parameter values:
 NetWare Remote Manager (PORTAL.NLM) is a Web-based utility that
you run from a workstation. You can use NetWare Remote Manager to
navigate to a specific parameter quickly by clicking Set Parameters, then
selecting the category and value you want to change, and then changing
or resetting the values to the default. For more information, see the
NetWare Remote Manager Administration Guide.
 MONITOR is a character-based utility that you must use at the server
console or access through NetWare Remote Manager. MONITOR also
allows you to configure SET parameters from its Server Parameters
option. This means you can set server parameter values from within
MONITOR without memorizing parameter names and their valid values.
For more information, see MONITOR in Utilities Reference.
 SET is a command line utility executed at the System Console prompt. If
you are familiar with the names of the server parameters, you might find
that using SET is faster for routine tuning. For more information, see SET
in Utilities Reference.
Most SET parameter values are persistent and are stored in a the NetWare
Registry. A NetWare server retains any settings that have been modified from
the default values—even when it is taken down and then rebooted, the server
will come up again with all the settings you have made to tune the server.
To ensure that explicit SET parameter changes are perservered, you can add
the command for each change to the STARTUP.NCF or AUTOEXEC.NCF
file. For procedures on editing these files, see “Using NWCONFIG to Create
and Edit Startup Batch Files” on page 57.