Supervising the Network

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Maintaining the NetWare Server

Managing the Server

This section describes basic setup and conﬁguration of your NetWare server

so that it will run efﬁciently. It explains how to do the following:

• Start and stop your server

• Enable logins and server console messages

• Start your NCP engines and enable packet burst

• Access reports on clients

• Set specialized server-wide security variables

• Configure startup variables

• Enable IPX auto-discovery and IPX diagnostics

• Configure your IPX and SPX service advertising

Starting NetWare after Booting Your System

You can conﬁgure NetWare to come up automatically when you boot the

server. If you conﬁgure it this way, you can use the nwserverstatus command

to check that NetWare really did come up after the reboot.

The system parameter that controls the server starting at boot is

nws_start_at_boot. If you cannot start NetWare, you could check nwcm at

the HP-UX serverc console command line by typing:

nwcm -v nws_start_at_boot

This tells you if the parameter is set to On or Off. If it is off, type:

nwcm -s nws_start_at_boot=on

to turn it on again.

Bringing Down and Restarting NetWare

Use this procedure to start and stop your NetWare server.

Make sure all of your users are logged out of the server if you shut it down.