ZENworks 7 Linux Management Cook Book

Welcome to the ZENworks 7 Linux Management Cook Book

Goals

This set of wiki pages was created as a clearing house for all ZLM7 related activities. Please contribute to this project.

The goal is to document pretty much everything that is appropriate to enable you to successfully get ZLM 7 running in a lab or proof of concept environment.

The aim is to start with some '101' type information; allow this to be used to build a Proof of Concept type of lab; document the successes and caveats; and over time to build a more complete body of work.

It should be clear that this is a work in progress.

I re-posted this for public consumption from the Novell Internal Wiki. No secrets here.

And a BIG HI to Trey who is working on a proof of concept.

Ezs Martin Buckley April 2006

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Don't Panic!

• Don't Panic - how to get help

Before you think of starting

• Nomenclature A few words about words.

Before you Start

• Readme
• Pre-requisites

Your ZLM7 Server

• Building your server

Installing and configuring your first server

• Installation

• Configuration

Post Installation

• post-configuration tasks
  • working from the ZENworks Control Center
    • Supported Browsers
  • creating adminstrators and service accounts
  • working from the console (zlman)
    • ~/.zlmanrc
  • software and package management
    • building a package universe
    • Uploading the ZLM7 Packages
    • ZLMmirror
      • have linux, need updates - where do I get my updates from?
      • update.novell.com
      • YOU - sdb2.suse.de
      • Red Hat Network
      • ftp sites
      • other
  • policies
    • text-file policy
    • scheduled action policy
    • gconf (gnome) policy
    • Firefox policy
    • Epiphany policy
    • Evolution policy
    • NLD policy
  • Imaging
    • PXE infrastructure
    • AutoYaST
    • KickStart
    • ZENworks Imaging
  • ZLM Settings
  • Co-existance with ZENworks 7
    • Imaging (proxy forwarding)
    • Inventory (hardware rollup)

Advanced ZLM deployment

• Secondary Servers
  • understanding eDirectory replica placement
  • understanding TED
  • Secondary server placement
• remote database support
  • Remote Postgres
  • Remote Oracle 9i
  • Remote Oracle 10g (future)
• purging the package repository
• Postgres vacuum
• promoting a secondary server

ZLM7 scalability

• Single Server
• Multiple server

ZLM7 Architecture

• Nomenclature
• Product design goals
• What differs from RCE2/ZLM6.x
• What differs from traditional ZENworks
• Architecture overview
• Server drill-down
• Client drill-down

Other resources

• ZLM7 Administrators Guide

Troubleshooting and known issues

• troubleshooting steps
  • ZLM server
    • Server certificate has expired
      • Symptom : when performing operations, you get an exception indication that the server certificate has expired : "com.phaos.SSL.SSLExecption: Certificate has expired".
      • Solution : use the following lines to generate a self-signed certificate with a validity of 10 years :
        • mv /opt/novell/zenworks/share/keystore /opt/novell/zenworks/share/keystore.old
        • keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore /opt/novell/zenworks/share/keystore -keypass `cat /etc/opt/novell/zenworks/serversecret` -storepass `cat /etc/opt/novell/zenworks/serversecret` -validity 3650 -dname "cn=`hostname`"
        • zlm-config --restart
  • client
  • ZLMmirror