Re: Questions about Zenworks 7 DM on SLES server
Craig Wilson
There is the Client Piece on the Workstations.
There is the C1 managment tool which creates/edits the objects in eDir.
The Clients talk to edirectory to get their details.
All eDir communication and replication is handled by normal eDir and
Client32 rules.
The "Server" components for ZDM7 that most folks use are the "Automatic
Workstatin Import/Removal" service.
This allows for the automatic recreatin and deletion of a special
"Workstation" object for all of your PCs.
This lets you assign apps/policies to PCs instead of users if you chose.
This normally only runs on one server.
The other component is the Inventory Server.
Again this usually only runs on one server, but if you have very slow wan
links, you might have inventory rollup servers.
A third component you might have is a 'Middle-Tier' server which is used by
companies that do not use Client32.
It allows for the ZDM Agent to talk HTTP to the middle-tier service which
then issues the eDir requests. (Sort of an NCP Proxy Server.)
So as you can see, there is not really anything to "Sync" between servers.
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"spbgray" <spb...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in message
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> Dear all users,
>
> I had a few questions about installing Zenworks 7 onto a SLES/OES
> server. Since this is my first time installing Zenworks, I'm not sure
> what I should be seeing after the install. The questions I have are:
>
> 1. When the installer ask if you would like to setup SSL and you
> select "YES", what is the cert path and is it looking for a self signed
> cert or the cert from our master server?
>
> 2. If we already have 10 servers running Zenworks, once this server is
> back up and running, if we did not select the install as standalone
> option, will it start to sync with the other servers via eDirectory?
>
> I know that may sound like noob questions and when it comes to
> Zenworks, I definitely am :o) Any help is appreciated. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> W. Gray
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Craig Wilson
central inventory server.
If your WAN connections are poor and you can only allow for the data to be
sent in the evenings, you can configure Inventory later in C1.
However, the data being sent is not very great.
I'm not sure why it's asking about SSL, but you don't need SSL for anything
that I am aware except possibly Middle Tier, but most folks don't use
middle-tier and those that do generally don't use SSL.
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"spbgray" <spb...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in message
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> That was an awesome reply. It definitely cleared up a lot of the
> questions I had. So in essense, once the services are running and the
> server is not configured as a standalone server, it will use eDir to
> rollup inventory information? Would you also know the process for
> configuring SSL during install? The installer ask for the cert path but
> I'm not sure if I should generate a cert request from the server and
> sign it with the CA on our master server or perhaps just point it to a
> copy of the CA's certificate?
>
> Willie Gray
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