Manually Registering A Device; Performing An Initial Registration; Reregistering A Device With An Additional Registration Key - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - DISCOVERY-DEPLOYMENT-RETIREMENT REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Deployment Manual

3 In the Registration Rules panel, deselect one of the following options:
Enable Use of Registration Rules: Disable this option to force devices to use a registration
key when registering. Any devices that attempt to register without a key are rejected.
Enable Use of Default Registration Rules: Disable this option to force devices to use a
registration key or meet the criteria defined in a custom registration rule. Any devices that do
not are rejected.
4 Click OK to save the changes.

9.6 Manually Registering a Device

A device is automatically registered when the ZENworks Adaptive Agent is installed. You should
only need to manually register a device in the following situations:
The device was unregistered.
The device's object was deleted from the ZENworks database. The Adaptive Agent is still
installed on the device and you now want to register the device again.
You want to reregister an already registered device with an additional registration key.
Manual registration of a device must be done at the device using the ZENworks Adaptive Agent
command line utility (zac).
The following sections provide instructions:
Section 9.6.1, "Performing an Initial Registration," on page 74
Section 9.6.2, "Reregistering a Device with an Additional Registration Key," on page 74

9.6.1 Performing an Initial Registration

1 At the device, open a command prompt.
2 Enter the following command:
zac reg [-k key] [-u ZENworks Administrator username -p ZENworks
Administrator password] [server_url:port
For example:
zac reg -k acct -u zadmin -p novell https://zserver.novell.com
The
-k
prompted to enter a username and password. For the
also use an IP address; the port is required only if the ZENworks Server is not using the default
port (80 or 443).
9.6.2 Reregistering a Device with an Additional Registration
Key
1 At the device, open a command prompt.
2 Enter the following command:
zac add-reg-key registration_key
For example:
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