# Novell

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/novell/  
**Website:** https://www.novell.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Novell, Inc. was a Provo, Utah network-software company best known for NetWare, eDirectory, GroupWise and ZENworks. It was acquired by The Attachmate Group in 2011, folded into Micro Focus with the 2014 Attachmate acquisition, and passed to OpenText when OpenText bought Micro Focus in 2023. The Novell corporate brand is retired and novell.com is now an OpenText-operated redirector, but a large part of the Novell developer surface is still served on www.novell.com and is not merely archival: the Novell Developer Kit (NDK) A-Z index, the eDirectory developer kits (which now 301 to microfocus.com), and the GroupWise SDK documentation set published per release right up to GroupWise 25. Two callable API surfaces are documented there - the GroupWise Administration REST API (220 resource paths, 357 operations, served by the customer's own GroupWise Administration Service on port 9710) and the GroupWise Web Services SOAP protocol against the Post Office Agent (96 documented methods on port 7191). Both are customer-hosted, not SaaS: there is no Novell-operated endpoint, no key to obtain and no sign-up. No machine-readable contract is obtainable - a WSDL is referenced by name but shipped only inside SDK archives on hosts that no longer resolve, and the Admin API's WADL is generated at runtime on the customer's own server. The documentation outlived the distribution.

## Kin Score — 24.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-09-14 under rubric 0.22.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 57.1 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 7.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (3)

- **GroupWise Administration REST API** — REST/JSON administration API for a GroupWise system, served by the GroupWise Administration Service that installs alongside the GroupWise agents. Introduced under the "Windermer...
- **GroupWise Web Services (SOAP)** — Server-side SOAP protocol for reading and writing a GroupWise user's mailbox, spoken directly to the GroupWise Post Office Agent over HTTP/HTTPS. 96 documented methods defined i...
- **DSML for eDirectory (SOAP)** — DSML v2 for eDirectory ships a deployable Java web archive (.war) that exposes Novell eDirectory as a SOAP web service using DSML - the OASIS Directory Services Markup Language ...

## Security (3)

- **Novell Authentication** — 4 schemes
- **Novell Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Novell Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (1)

- **Novell Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Enterprise Software, Collaboration, Email, Directory Services, Identity, groupware, LDAP, SOAP, Legacy, Self-Hosted, Endpoint Management

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