Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - DISCOVERY-DEPLOYMENT-RETIREMENT REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Deployment Manual page 18

IP Discovery
Technology
ZENworks
SNMP
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Functionality
Issues a request to the
ZENworks Adaptive
Agent or ZENworks
preagent on the devices
identified by the IP-based
discovery task. If the
device has the ZENworks
Adaptive Agent, the
agent responds with the
OS type and version,
MAC Address, Network
Adapters, CPU,
managed device GUID,
Management Zone
GUID, Management
Zone name, Adaptive
Agent version, disk
space, and memory
details. If the device has
the ZENworks preagent
installed, the preagent
responds with the OS
type, CPU, disk space,
memory, and the GUID
details that should be
used to register the
device in the
Management Zone.
Issues a request to the
SNMP service on the
devices identified by the
IP-based discovery task.
SNMP versions 2 and 1
are supported, with
SNMP version 2 tried
first. Retrieves the OS
type and version, MAC
address, Network
Adapters, and CPU
details.
Requirements Prerequisites
Because the
discovery process
uses a Windows-
based SNMP
technology, requests
generated from a
ZENworks Server
running on Linux
must be routed to a
Windows Proxy for
processing. For more
information, see
Section 2.2,
"Designating a
Discovery and
Deployment Proxy
Server," on page 26.
The preagent is only installed
on OEM devices or on
devices whose registration
was removed from the zone.
To query a device using
SNMP, the device must have
SNMP enabled.
The SNMP community string
must be specified as a SNMP
credential in the Discovery
Task.
SNMP uses the UDP Port
161. The firewall must be
configured to allow access
through this port.