by ezs | May 24, 2009 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
This goes back a long, long way.
Summer 2000 I was talking to an audience of customers and resellers in South Africa about how the directory, identity-driven management and ZENworks specifically could manage anything. The concepts of management by exception and the extensibility of the Novell Directory Services (as it was then known) were ideal for this.
We were joking around concepts of management – and we came on ZENworks for Toasters.
Some Java fun in ConsoleOne – and we had a cool demo plugin for our internal Systems Engineers.
by ezs | Nov 13, 2007
In a former life (prior to early 2008) I was the Director of Product Management for Novell ZENworks.
Those days are gone – but many of my blog posts from that era are still archived on this blog.
http://www.evilzenscientist.com/?s=zenworks
by ezs | Nov 7, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
ZENworks imaging can use the Preboot eXecution Environment – PXE – to start it’s imaging engine.
When the imaging server components (TFTP server, Imaging engine, Proxy DHCP) are running on the same server as the DHCP server there are certain configuration changes that need to be made.
Read the ZCM10 documentation for more.
Three steps to happiness – I’ll document this for Windows; SLES is broadly similar.
– set the Proxy DHCP to run correctly
– set Proxy DHCP to start automatically
– add DHCP option tag 60 to the DHCP scope
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by ezs | Oct 22, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
In some circumstances you need to turn down the agent trust – especially with a NAT or DNS Round Robin environment.
This registry key changes the agent to accept a looser trust on name matching:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARENovellZenworks]
"require-verified-certs"="false"
by ezs | Oct 15, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized, ZENworks
A long title for a short post.
The default agent deployment packages created during Primary Server installation are hard coded to the Fully Qualified DNS Name and the static IP address of your server. All well and good for a single server; but what about:
- DNS round robin
- servers behind static NAT
- etc
Here’s how to build a custom agent deployment package with either no server details (add them via registration at deployment time) or with a single DNS name.
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