Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - MIGRATION GUIDE 10.3 30-03-2010 Migration Manual page 19

No Schema Extensions: Because Configuration Management stores all the data in the
ZENworks database, it does not impact your Novell eDirectory schema. Any access to
eDirectory is read-only for the purpose of referencing user information.
User Sources: You can use eDirectory and Active Directory as the source for users. To do this,
you define a read-only LDAP link to a directory and specify the contexts where users reside.
ZENworks creates references to the users in its own database that allow for ZENworks
management activities to occur completely within the ZENworks database rather than in the
directory. If you only plan to manage devices through device assignments rather than user
assignments, user sources are not needed. For more information, see
page 19.
Management Zone: Primary Servers and managed devices are organized into a Management
Zone, replacing the organization provided by the eDirectory tree.
Object Management
Configuration Management uses ZENworks Control Center objects instead of eDirectory objects.
The following describes some of the differences:
Dynamic Groups: This is a new feature in Configuration Management. Both groups and
dynamic groups are available. From the perspective of software and policy assignments, groups
and dynamic groups have the same function. The only difference between the two types of
groups is the way that devices are added to the group. With a group, you must manually add
devices. With a dynamic group, you define criteria that a device must meet to be a member of
the group, and then devices that meet the criteria are automatically added.
Several dynamic groups are predefined, but you can define your own.
For more information, see "Groups" in the
Administration Quick
Inheritance: You can set configurations in several ways:
Globally for all ZENworks Control Center objects (devices or bundles) in the
Management Zone
For all objects in a folder and its subfolders
For a group of objects (predefined, user-defined, and dynamic groups are available)
For an individual object
For more information, see
Configuration Management Administration Quick
Associations: In Configuration Management, ZENworks Control Center objects are assigned
to each other (such as bundles to devices), instead of being associated with eDirectory objects.
The differences between assignments and associations should be considered when migrating to
Configuration Management. For more information, see
Associations," on page
User Management
Configuration Management references existing LDAP user sources, in either eDirectory or Active
Directory. Users are not migrated to Configuration Management. This way, ZENworks knows
immediately of any changes done natively to user objects. For more information, see
in the ZENworks 10 Configuration Management System Administration
Differences between ZENworks 10 Configuration Management and Traditional ZENworks
ZENworks 10 Configuration Management
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"Organizing Devices: Folders and
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"User Management" on
Groups" in the
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Section 4.10, "Migrating
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ZENworks 10
"User Sources"
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