Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - COMMAND LINE UTILITIES REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Command Reference Manual page 10

zman(1)
Name
zman - The command line interface to Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management, which
provides comprehensive server, workstation, and user management, and to Novell 10 Asset
Management, which provides software and hardware inventory of servers and workstations,
software usage tracking, and software license compliance.
Description
The zman command line interface provides you a full-featured utility that can simplify many
operations by using scripting and can provide quick access to operations. It can be used effectively
in automation of tasks.
The following sections provide information about all of the commands provided for ZENworks 10
Configuration Management and ZENworks 10 Asset Management. Some of the commands apply to
both products, and some apply to only one or the other.
The following commands apply only to ZENworks 10 Configuration Management. If Configuration
Management is not installed or active, the commands have no effect:
Bundle commands
Imaging commands
Policy commands
The following commands apply only to ZENworks 10 Asset Management. If Asset Management is
not installed or active, the commands have no effect:
Asset Management commands
Syntax
zman <command> [-options] [arguments]
In general, zman commands have both a short form and a long form. The long form is assembled in
the form category-action. For example, the command
a registration folder. There are many commands, but most of them are easy to remember because
they are grouped under categories (workstation, server, bundle, policy, administrator, registration,
etc) and most actions (list, create, modify, delete) to perform on them are common.
The abbreviated form of each command uses one letter from each word in the long form. In this
manner,
admin-list
uniqueness of the short names. For example,
short form of
A command takes options and arguments. Options can be specified anywhere in the command.
Arguments are dependent on position.
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is shortened to
al
.
bundle-copy
registration-list
. There are some exceptions to this rule to maintain the
is the short form of
bc
lists all registrations in
, and
bundle-create bcp
is the