Managing Software With Zenworks - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 08-05-2008 Installation Manual

Managing Software with
ZENworks
SUSE Linux Enterprise is ready for integration into an environment administrated by
Novell ZENworks Linux Management. It includes an open source ZENworks manage-
ment agent, back-end daemon, and user space software management tools. Novell
ZENworks package management tools use a ZENworks Linux Management server to
download packages and updates. If no ZENworks Linux Management server is available
in your local network, your system can get updates from the Novell Customer Center,
which is described in Section 3.14.4, "Novell Customer Center Configuration"
The back-end daemon for the Novell ZENworks Linux Management Agent is the
ZENworks Management Daemon (ZMD). ZMD performs software management func-
tions. The daemon is started automatically during boot.
Check the status of the daemon with rczmd status. To start the daemon, enter
rczmd start. To restart it, use rczmd restart. Deactivate it with rczmd
stop.
ZMD can also be started with special options to control its behavior. To have ZMD
always start with some special options permanently, set ZMD_OPTIONS in /etc/
sysconfig/zmd then run SuSEconfig. The available options are:
-n, --no-daemon
Do not run the daemon in the background.
-m, --no-modules
Do not load any modules.

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