Environment
Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management Support Pack 1 - ZDM7 SP1
Application Launcher (NAL)
Novell Client for Windows 2000/XP/2003 4.91 Support Pack 2
Installation
Situation
The customer had a very large number of users accessing the same
application objects in the same partition and noted that NAL had
become significantly slower during peak usage times as the
number of managed stations increased.
Resolution
Many of the attributes of application objects that NAL must
read are stored as stream objects.
By default, the Novell Client is configured to read these
stream files in small chucks which can be inefficient if many
stream files need to be read which is often the case with
ZENworks.
The Novell Client can be configured so that most of these
stream files can be retrieved in a single packet instead of many
packets.
The following registry setting will en
There are not any known conditions in which this setting could
have an adverse effect.
The ZENworks Agent reads stream files in large chunks by
default when communicating via the Middle-Tier so this setting
would not be required in an environment without Client32.
able NAL to read the stream file portions of application objects
more efficiently:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetWareWorkstation\Parameters]"Cache Stream Files"=dword:00000001