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

Other Network Shares (NetStorage)
It is also possible to use NetStorage devices for content hosting and delivery of application content
to your managed devices.
Benefits:
Uses existing infrastructure.
Less overhead is required on the ZENworks Server.
Drawbacks:
ZENworks Configuration Management has no control over the distribution of the application
content. The distribution must be managed outside of ZENworks Configuration Management.
ZENworks Configuration Management has no control over who has access to the data.
Application content is not encrypted and can potentially be installed by anyone with access to
the server.
This is not a firewall friendly solution. Access from outside the firewall requires VPN access in
order to deliver applications.
Recommendation for the Delivery Mechanism
Novell recommends using the ZENworks Configuration Management internal delivery mechanism
(HTTP) for bundles and policies. Although it might be easier to use other delivery methods you will
lose most of the benefits within ZENworks Configuration Management. Some of these benefits
include:
Content replication capabilities
Rights to the content store
Data encryption and security wrapped around content

4.2.11 Policy Management

In general, it is not a good idea to have thousands of different policies in place to fulfill all
requirements. In desktop management, there are usually sets of policies for certain groups, such as
normal users, administrative users, and special user groups, such as software developers.
However, you might also want to organize policies in more than one folder to restrict access and
administration to specific groups or users.
Some policies definitely need to be restricted to a set number of people within the organization (such
as remote management policies), so you need to consider this best practice recommendation
carefully.
However, it is a good idea to organize different sets of policies in different folders. In addition, we
recommend that you use policy groups to put different policies together in a single package and then
assign these policy groups to devices or users, (policy groups are loosely synonymous to policy
packages in previous versions of ZENworks Desktop Management).
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