Adaptive Agent Deployment - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - SYSTEM PLANNING-DEPLOYMENT-BEST PRACTICES GUIDE 10.3 30-03-2010 System Planning Manual

Configure only the necessary authentication credentials. The more authentication credentials
that are configured, the longer each scan takes.
Disable the MAC Address discovery technology. Any device with a MAC Address is
discovered via this technology. The devices show up in the discovered list with an Unknown
operating system, which causes the deployable device list to be inaccurate.
All discoveries are performed from the Deployment tab in ZENworks Control Center.
Agent State
A Discovery task returns Management Zone information on devices with a ZENworks
Configuration Management Agent installed. The discovered devices can be viewed from the
ZENworks Control Center > Devices > Discovered tab. It is possible to see which devices are
registered with another Management Zone and which agents are currently unregistered.
The name of a managed device residing within the same Management Zone as the Primary server is
displayed in green and the name of the managed device residing in a different management zone is
displayed in the yellow.
Schedule
A discovery only returns device information if the device is turned on and contactable. A discovery
task should be run regularly on different days and times to ensure the entire environment is captured.
For more information, see
Discovery, Deployment, and Retirement

4.2.6 Adaptive Agent Deployment

Novell ZENworks Configuration Management provides a variety of methods you can use to install
the ZENworks Adaptive Agent to devices:
Use ZENworks Control Center to deploy the agent from the ZENworks Server to the device.
At the device, use a Web browser to download and install the Agent from the ZENworks
Server.
Include the Agent in an image and apply the image to the device.
Use a login script, Windows group policy, or ZENworks 7 Application object to install the
Agent.
Because ZENworks Configuration Management is usually implemented in larger environments, we
recommend deploying the ZENworks Adaptive Agent automatically; you should not manually
install the Agent.
The following sections contain more information:
"Default Deployment Packages" on page 63
"Custom Deployment Packages" on page 63
62 System Planning, Deployment, and Best Practices Guide
"Device Discovery" in the
Reference.
ZENworks 10 Configuration Management