Registering Devices; What Happens During Registration - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - DISCOVERY-DEPLOYMENT-RETIREMENT REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Deployment Manual

Registering Devices

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When you install the ZENworks
Management Zone and becomes a managed device. The following sections provide information to
help you understand and manage the registration process:
Section 9.1, "What Happens During Registration," on page 61
Section 9.2, "Creating Registration Keys and Rules," on page 62
Section 9.3, "Modifying the Device Naming Template Used During Registration," on page 69
Section 9.4, "Enabling Dynamic Renaming of Devices During Registration," on page 70
Section 9.5, "Disabling the Use of Registration Rules," on page 72
Section 9.6, "Manually Registering a Device," on page 74
Section 9.7, "Unregistering a Device," on page 75

9.1 What Happens During Registration

The ZENworks Adaptive Agent includes a service that performs all registration tasks. The tasks
performed by the Registration service depend on whether the device is registering for the first time,
performing a scheduled refresh, or reregistering with a new registration key. The following table
lists the tasks performed in each scenario.
Registration tasks
Table 9-1
Task
Create device object in ZENworks database
Name device object according to device naming
template
Add device to folder
3
Add device to groups
Add site, department, and location information
Update device attributes (GUID, IP address,
DNS name, last contact time, etc.)
1
Reregistration assumes that the device object has not been removed from the ZENworks database
and that the device is simply being reregistered using a new registration key.
2
Occurs only if the Device Dynamic Rename option is enabled. See
Dynamic Renaming of Devices During Registration," on page 70
3
Occurs only if the key or rule being used for registration includes this information. See
"Creating Registration Keys and Rules," on page 62
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Adaptive Agent to a device, the device is registered in your
Initial Registration Refresh
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
3
Yes
Yes
for more information.
Reregistration
No No
2 2
Yes Yes
No No
No Yes
No Yes
Yes Yes
Section 9.4, "Enabling
for more information.
Section 9.2,
Registering Devices
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