Discovery Task Remains In A Pending State If It Has A Large Ip Address Range; Zenworks Adaptive Agent Might Crash If The Managed Device Does Not Have The Latest .Net Framework Patches - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - DISCOVERY-DEPLOYMENT-RETIREMENT REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Deployment Manual

Discovery task remains in a pending state if it has a large IP address range

Explanation: If a discovery task has an IP address range with more than 50,000 devices, the
Possible Cause: The ZENworks Loader has insufficient memory to run a task that has a large
ZENworks Adaptive Agent might crash if the managed device does not have the
latest .NET Framework patches
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For example, if you run the deployment task from a Linux server through a
Windows Proxy, there is a folder created in the
zenworks_installation_directory\novell\zenworks\bin\_rfu_cach
directory on the Windows device that contains the pre-task or post-task
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command file. If you delete the task in ZENworks Control Center, the
command file is left on the Windows Proxy device. However, all command
files older than five days are removed when another deployment task is run by
using the same Windows Proxy.
Action: To immediately delete the orphaned files from the
zenworks_installation_directory\novell\zenworks\bin\_rfu_cach
directory, you must manually delete it.
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Retirement.
task is not started. The status of the task remains as Pending. If any other
discovery or loader task is running simultaneously, it might take a considerable
time to complete.
IP address range.
Action: Do the following:
1 Stop the discovery task that has a large IP address range:
1a In the Discovery Tasks panel, select the discovery task that has a
large IP address range.
1b Click Action > Abort Discovery Task.
2 Create multiple tasks with the IP address ranges that have fewer than
50,000 devices.
3 (Conditional) If any other discovery or loader task takes a considerable
time to complete, restart the ZENworks Loader.
On Windows: Do the following:
1. From the Windows desktop Start menu, click Settings >
Control Panel.
2. Double-click Administrative Tools > Services.
3. Restart the Novell ZENworks Loader Service.
On Linux: At the console prompt, enter
zenloader restart
4 Restart the ZENworks Loader.
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Retirement.
/etc/init.d/novell-
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