This post is a collated note to myself of useful links and information from goggling these issues when I encountered them in the past. We encountered an issue in the recent past where nal failed to load at random.
Whilst it turned out to be edir corruption of our user container its reoccurred, my moneys on corruption again!
You can however, investigate in detail by enabling nal debugging and tracing what happens. With debugging enabled to the level you need logs will be generated which should hopefully give you a clue what’s wrong. You have two options
- manually hack in the relevant reg settings
Debug logging for the Novell® Application LauncherTM is enabled in the Windows registry or using the diagnostic tool, naldiag.exe. This section focuses on using the registry to enable debug logging.
NOTE: The keys in this table are the same as those that are set by nialdiag.exe.
The table below specifies the information you need to edit registry of the workstation where the Application Launcher agent is running:
| Registry Key and Hive Location | Value Name | Value Type | Data | Notes |
| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | Level | DWORD | 0 (Off) | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zfdnal.csv (default location if none is specified) |
| 1 (Informational messages only) | ||||
| 2 (Warning messages only) | ||||
| 3 (Informational and Warning messages only) | ||||
| 4 (Critical messages only) | ||||
| 5 (Informational and Critical messages only) | ||||
| 6 (Warning and Critical messages only) | ||||
| F (All messages) | ||||
| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | LogFileLocation | STRING | location_and_filename_of_output_file | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zfdnal.csv (default location if none is specified) |
| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | Browser | DWORD | 0 (Off) | Destination: Browser log file as specified |
| 1 (On) | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zfdnal.csv (default location if none is specified) |
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| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | Explorer | DWORD | 0 (Off) | Destination: Application Explorer log file as specified |
| 1 (On) | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zfdnal.csv (default location if none is specified) |
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| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | IPC | DWORD | 0 (Off) | Destination: IPC log file as specified |
| 1 (On) | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zfdnal.csv (default location if none is specified) |
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| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | Library | DWORD | 0 (Off) | Destination: Library log file specified |
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1 (On) | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zfdnal.csv (default location if none is specified) |
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| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | MUP | DWORD | 0 (Off) | Destination: MUP log file as specified |
| 1 (On) | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zfdnal.csv (default location if none is specified) |
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| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | Reporting | DWORD | 0 (Off) | Destination: Reporting log file as specified |
| 1 (On) | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zfdnal.csv (default location if none is specified) |
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| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | Service | DWORD | 0 (Off) | Destination: NT Services log file as specified |
| 1 (On) | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zfdnal.csv (default location if none is specified) |
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| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | Start | DWORD | 0 (Off) | Destination: Startup log file as specified |
| 1 (On) | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zfdnal.csv (default location if none is specified) |
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| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | Workstation | DWORD | 0 (Off) | Destination: Workstation log file as specified |
| 1 (On) | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zfdnal.csv (default location if none is specified) |
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| HKLM\Software\NetWare\NAL\1.0\Debug | MSI | DWORD | 0 (Off) | Location: program files\novell\zenworks\ zappmsi.log |
| 1 (On) | Alternatively, zappmsi.log is in the path listed in the LogFileLocation string value, if specified |
- OR use the naldiag.exe tool, it will create the registry keys for logging for you, You should fine it located under
c:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\NalDiag.exe

USEFUL LINKS
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