Zenworks Adaptive Agent Deployment - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - ADMINISTRATION QUICK START 10.3 Quick Start Manual

Task
Add user sources
Create additional administrator
accounts
Modify zone configuration
settings

1.2 ZENworks Adaptive Agent Deployment

The ZENworks Adaptive Agent communicates with the ZENworks Server to perform management
tasks on a device. You must deploy the Adaptive Agent to all devices you want to manage.
Deploying the Adaptive Agent installs the agent files and registers the device in your Management
Zone.
Deployment Tasks
Table 1-2
Task
Discover devices
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You can assign software and policies to users as well as devices.
Unlike device-assigned software and policies, user-assigned
software and policies are available on the device only when the
user is logged in to the Management Zone.
You do not manually add users to your Management Zone.
Instead, you connect to an LDAP directory that you want to use
as your authoritative user source in ZENworks. You can then
make software and policy assignments to any users defined in
the user source.
For instructions, see Section 3.3, "Connecting to User Sources,"
on page 32.
During installation, a default ZENworks administrator account
(named Administrator) is created. The default Administrator
account provides rights to the entire Management Zone.
You can create additional administrator accounts that restrict
access to the zone. For example, you could create an account
that only provides the ability to assign software to devices or
users in specific folders.
For instructions, see Section 3.4, "Creating ZENworks
Administrator Accounts," on page
Your zone settings are preset to provide the most common
configuration. If necessary, you can change the settings.
For instructions, see Section 3.5, "Modifying Configuration
Settings," on page 36.
Details
If you choose to use ZENworks Control Center to deploy the
agent to devices, you must first add the devices to your
Management Zone. You can do this by performing a network
discovery.
For instructions, see Section 5.1, "Discovering Network Devices,"
on page 79.
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