Tips, Tricks and Cool Solutions for Novell ZENworks Configuration Management

Tips,Tricks and Cool Solutions for Novell ® ZENworks Configuration Management ® Liam Morrison Adam Janosek Technical Sales Specialist Director of Resource Management Practice Novell, Inc./ lmorrison@novell.com CIS/ ajanosek@ciscony.com

Scripting on the Workstation

Scripted Bundle Action • Type of script – Specify a file on managed device > Script file must be on machine or delivered via a separate action in Novell ZENworks Configuration Management ® ® – Define your own script > Script is created on the fly by ZENworks Configuration Management – Select from this device > Script is uploaded from source device and delivered by ZENworks Configuration Management at time of script execution • Path to script engine – Defines interpreter for script, can be on device or delivered via a separate action. Common interpreters are Cmd.exe for .bat and wscript.exe for .vbs 3 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Scripting on the Server

ZMAN command • Almost anything that can be done via the ZENworks ® Control Center can also be scripted via ZMAN – Bundles can be altered, added to, incremented, assigned via ZMAN commands – Sets of commands can be scheduled to run at a given time, or on a recurring schedule via CRON (Linux) or Windows Task Scheduler (Windows) 5 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Scripting Demonstration

Custom ZENworks System Tray Icon ®

Steps To Replace System Tray Icon • Create default system tray icon – 32 x32 pixel 256 Colors – Name icon “Application.ico” • Create refresh animation icons – 32 x32 pixel 256 Colors – Name icon “refresh_xx.ico” > xx = 01 and go up to 99 • Place icons in /ZENworks/bin/icons/Zicon • Restart ZENNotifyicon.exe • Deliver it all with ZENworks ® Configuration Management! 8 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Manually Replicating Content

Steps To Manually Replicate Content • Set satellite server policy so that it never replicates content automatically • From primary server run ZMAN ssec /servers/satellitename path to export content • Get content to server (DVD, multicast, robocopy, etc) • Run ZAC CIC /path to content files • Run ZAC CVC to verify content (optional) 10 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Using the Inventory Collection Data Form

Things to Know About the Collection Data Form • Collection Data Form does not necessarily require user interaction!! – Silent mode allows data form to run silently and only collect autofill data > Autofill data can be registry keys or environment variables > Environment variables can be set via System Variables on device folders and enforced by ZENworks Agent, these can then be picked up by the collection ® data form 12 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks

Helpful Troubleshooting Tools • ZAC zeninfo – Collects all useful information from a problematic workstation (logs,cache, other MSI's installed, system information) into a single zip file. • Tail for Win32 – Windows port of a common Linux troubleshooting tool. Allows for real time monitoring of log files • ZENworks Diagnostic Center ® – New in ZENworks Configuration Management 10.3 – Provides a health check of ZENworks Configuration Management Zone and Database 14 © Novell, Inc. All rights reserved.

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