Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.3 IR2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 02-12-2010 Administration Manual page 387

4 If you plan to select Hardware Type when constructing a rule (see
configure the hardware type in one of the following fields:
Servers: Specify a full or partial string that identifies a server's BIOS from a match in its
Product Name field, then click Add to place the string into the Servers list. You can add
multiple strings to the list in order to identify all of the servers that you want a rule to
select. To remove a string from the list, select the string, then click Remove.
Laptops: Specify a full or partial string that identifies a laptop's BIOS from a match in its
Product Name field, then click Add to place the string into the Laptops list. You can add
multiple strings to the list in order to identify all of the laptops that you want a rule to
select. To remove a string from the list, select the string, then click Remove.
When defining a rule, you can define hardware types so that the rule can be specifically applied
to either servers or laptops.
To determine the BIOS product names of your servers or laptops, use the
a bash prompt, which displays various BIOS information. The BIOS information that you need
is listed in the Product Name field. For servers and laptops, you can enter partial strings to
select all with BIOS product names containing that string.
Servers, Laptops, and Workstations are the three options available when defining a work
assignment rule based on a hardware type. Devices whose BIOS identification matches one of
the strings listed in the Servers or Laptops fields above are classified for the rule as either a
server or a laptop.
A workstation is a hardware type that does not require a BIOS string definition. Therefore, if
you select Servers or Laptops in the Rule Construction dialog, but you have not entered BIOS
identification strings for them here, they are treated as workstations by the rule.
These hardware type definitions are applicable only to rules; they do not otherwise apply to the
ZENworks Management Zone.
5 Click Add to configure a rule.
The information configured in the Rule Construction dialog box comprises one rule. You can
add multiple rules. The rules are used to determined whether there is a device that should have
any preboot work done. If so, it only does the effective preboot work assigned to it.
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