Designating A Discovery And Deployment Proxy Server - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - DISCOVERY-DEPLOYMENT-RETIREMENT REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Deployment Manual

Perform name lookups: Uses a reverse lookup to associate the target IP address with a
DNS name. Deselect this option if you do not want the DNS name discovered.
SNMP Settings: These settings apply when using the SNMP discovery technology.
Initial SNMP timeout: Specifies how long the discovery technology waits for a response
to an SNMP query before assuming that the packet is lost.
Maximum SNMP retries: Specifies the number of times an SNMP query is repeated
before giving up.
Increment SNMP timeout on retries by: Adds the specified amount of time to each
retry. For example, if the initial SNMP timeout is 500 milliseconds, the maximum SNMP
retries is 3, and the increment is 1000 milliseconds, the first retry timeout is 1500, the
second retry timeout is 2500, and the third retry timeout is 3500.
6 Click OK to save the changes.
2.2 Designating a Discovery and Deployment
Proxy Server
ZENworks Servers running on Linux cannot perform discovery tasks that use Windows-specific
technologies such as WMI and WinAPI. Linux servers also cannot perform deployment of
ZENworks Adaptive Agents to Windows devices, as deployment uses Windows-specific
technologies. In order to enable the execution of discovery and deployment tasks by Linux
ZENworks Servers, you can designate a managed Windows device in your zone to function as a
discovery and deployment proxy server. The managed device can be either a Windows server or
workstation.
When a Linux ZENworks Server receives a discovery task that includes Windows-specific
technologies, it processes the non-Windows discovery technologies and offloads the Windows-
specific technologies to the proxy. The proxy performs the discoveries and returns the results to the
Linux ZENworks Server. The deployment task is totally offloaded to the Windows Proxy.
If you have only Linux servers in your environment, you must first manually install ZENworks
Adaptive Agent on a Windows device by downloading the agent from
https://IP_address_of_the_ZENworks_Server/zenworks-setup
as a proxy for discovery and deployment tasks.
To designate a proxy:
1 In ZENworks Control Center, click the Configuration tab.
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, then designate the device