Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - ADMINISTRATION QUICK START 10.3 Quick Start Manual

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ZENworks Adaptive Agent Deployment579novdocx (en) 16 April 20105ZENworks Adaptive AgentDeploymentNovell ® ZENworks® 10 Configuration Management provides a variety of methods you can use todeploy the ZENworks Adaptive Agent to the devices you want to manage. This section covers twoof the most common methods: a Web installation and a ZENworks Control Center deployment task.For information about the other methods, see the ZENworks 10 Configuration ManagementDiscovery, Deployment, and Retirement Reference.If you plan to use a deployment task to install the Adaptive Agent to devices, you must first eitheruse network discovery or file import to add the target devices to your Management Zone. The firsttwo sections listed below explain how to use network discovery and file import. The remainingsections provide installation and usage instructions for the ZENworks Adaptive Agent. Section 5.1, “Discovering Network Devices,” on page 79 Section 5.2, “Importing Devices,” on page 80 Section 5.3, “Installing the ZENworks Adaptive Agent,” on page 81 Section 5.4, “Using the ZENworks Adaptive Agent,” on page 89NOTE: If a device does not meet the requirements for installing the ZENworks Adaptive Agent (see“Managed Device Requirements” in the ZENworks 10 Configuration Management InstallationGuide), you might be able to install the Inventory Only Module on it to support inventorying of thedevice. For more information, see the ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Discovery,Deployment, and Retirement Reference.5.1 Discovering Network DevicesIf you want a ZENworks Server to automatically deploy the ZENworks Adaptive Agent to devices,you must first add the devices to your Management Zone. To do this, you have two options: 1) youcan use the ZENworks discovery technology to search for devices on your network and display themin ZENworks Control Center or 2) you can import them from a comma-separated values (CSV) file.This section explains how to use the discovery technology. If you want to know more aboutimporting devices from a CSV file, see Section 5.2, “Importing Devices,” on page 80.There are two types of discoveries you can perform: IP discovery: Lets you specify an IP address range. By default, it uses seven discoverytechnologies (WMI, WinAPI, MAC Address, ZENworks, SNMP, SSH, and NMAP). Eachdiscovery technology returns varying levels of information (OS version, DNS name, and soforth) about the discovered device. LDAP discovery: Lets you specify an LDAP directory context to search for all device-typeobjects (workstations, servers, and so forth). Device objects that are found are queried for well-known attributes (dnsHostName, OperatingSystem, wmNameDNS, wmNameOS, and so forth)to attempt to determine the OS version and DNS name of the device.