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Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management provides a variety of methods you can use to
deploy the ZENworks Adaptive Agent to the devices you want to manage. This section covers two
of the most common methods: a Web installation and a ZENworks Control Center deployment task.
For information about the other methods, see the
Discovery, Deployment, and Retirement
If you plan to use a deployment task to install the Adaptive Agent to devices, you must first either
use network discovery or file import to add the target devices to your Management Zone. The first
two sections listed below explain how to use network discovery and file import. The remaining
sections provide installation and usage instructions for the ZENworks Adaptive Agent.
Section 5.1, "Discovering Network Devices," on page 79
Section 5.2, "Importing Devices," on page 80
Section 5.3, "Installing the ZENworks Adaptive Agent," on page 81
Section 5.4, "Using the ZENworks Adaptive Agent," on page 89
NOTE: If a device does not meet the requirements for installing the ZENworks Adaptive Agent (see
"Managed Device Requirements" in the
Guide), you might be able to install the Inventory Only Module on it to support inventorying of the
device. For more information, see the
Deployment, and Retirement

5.1 Discovering Network Devices

If you want a ZENworks Server to automatically deploy the ZENworks Adaptive Agent to devices,
you must first add the devices to your Management Zone. To do this, you have two options: 1) you
can use the ZENworks discovery technology to search for devices on your network and display them
in ZENworks Control Center or 2) you can import them from a comma-separated values (CSV) file.
This section explains how to use the discovery technology. If you want to know more about
importing devices from a CSV file, see
There are two types of discoveries you can perform:
IP discovery: Lets you specify an IP address range. By default, it uses seven discovery
technologies (WMI, WinAPI, MAC Address, ZENworks, SNMP, SSH, and NMAP). Each
discovery technology returns varying levels of information (OS version, DNS name, and so
forth) about the discovered device.
LDAP discovery: Lets you specify an LDAP directory context to search for all device-type
objects (workstations, servers, and so forth). Device objects that are found are queried for well-
known attributes (dnsHostName, OperatingSystem, wmNameDNS, wmNameOS, and so forth)
to attempt to determine the OS version and DNS name of the device.
ZENworks 10 Configuration Management
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ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Installation
ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Discovery,
Reference.
Section 5.2, "Importing Devices," on page 80.

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