Configuring Management Zone Settings; Configuring System Variables - Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.2 IR2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 09-25-2008 Administration Manual

Configuring Management Zone
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The ZENworks Management Zone is the top level of the ZENworks management hierarchy. The
Management Zone provides an autonomous administrative unit of ZENworks Servers and managed
devices (workstations and servers). You use the ZENworks Control Center (the Web-based
administrative tool) to manage devices. The ZENworks Servers and managed devices work together
to apply the management tasks.
You can use the Configuration tab in the ZENworks Control Center to configure your Management
Zone.
The following sections contain additional information:
Section 7.1, "Configuring System Variables," on page 67
Section 7.2, "Configuring the Device Refresh Schedule," on page 70
Section 7.3, "Configuring Device Inventory Settings," on page 70
Section 7.4, "Configuring Local Device Logging," on page 71
Section 7.5, "Configuring Preboot Services," on page 72
Section 7.6, "Configuring Remote Management," on page 72
Section 7.7, "Configuring Centralized Message Logging," on page 72
Section 7.8, "Configuring the Content Replication Schedule," on page 72
Section 7.9, "Viewing Default Target Platforms and Configuring Custom Target Platforms," on
page 73
Section 7.10, "Configuring the ZENworks Management Daemon (zmd) Settings," on page 74
Section 7.11, "Integrating Novell Customer Center with ZENworks Linux Management," on
page 75
Section 7.12, "Configuring the ZENworks Server Preferences," on page 76
Section 7.13, "Understanding the StoreFileDeps Preference," on page 77

7.1 Configuring System Variables

The System Variables page lets you define variables that can be used to replace paths, names, and so
forth as you enter data in various ZENworks Control Center fields. System variables defined on this
page can be used on all objects in your ZENworks Management Zone.
System variables can be overridden at the device or folder level. If you add the same system variable
to a device or folder, but give it a different value, the new variable value overrides the inherited
system variable value. A variable on the device level overrides the same variable on the folder level,
which overrides the same variable on the system level.
The following sections provide additional information:
Section 7.1.1, "Creating System Variables," on page 68
Section 7.1.2, "Using Variables in ZENworks Policies: A Sample Use Case," on page 68

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