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Authentication: If you want to speed up the authentication process of the devices with the
ZENworks Management Zone, you can enable the Authentication role on a device. Satellite
devices with the Authentication role can now speed the authentication process by spreading the
workload among various devices and by performing authentication locally to managed
devices.You can have multiple Satellite devices with the Authentication role. In addition, each
Satellite with the Authentication role can have multiple user sources configured and each
Satellite can have multiple connections to each user source to provide failover.
For more information, see "Satellites" in the
Administration

1.2.3 Managed Device

A managed device is a Windows server or workstation that you can use ZENworks to manage. The
ZENworks Adaptive Agent must be installed on each device in order for it to be managed. The
Adaptive Agent communicates with a Primary Server to enable delivery of software, enforcement of
configuration policies, inventorying of hardware and software, and remote management of the
device.
Each managed device attempts to contact its initial Primary Server. However, if content is
unavailable on that Primary Server, the managed device requests it from another Primary Server or a
Satellite Server with the Content role configured in the Management Zone, and continues until it
finds a server that can provide the content.
A managed device can be registered in only one Management Zone and is therefore managed only in
that zone.

1.2.4 Inventoried-Only Device

You might have devices where the Adaptive Agent cannot be installed, or devices where you do not
want to install the Adaptive Agent. To inventory these devices, you can either install the Inventory-
Only agent or run the Portable Collector.
For more information, see the
and Retirement

1.2.5 Management Zone

A Management Zone consists of one or more Primary Servers and one or more managed devices.
The Primary Servers in the zone work together to manage the devices. The zone's information is
stored in a database that resides on one of the Primary Servers or externally on another server that
does not have ZENworks installed on it. The zone might also contain Satellites.

1.3 System Administration

You administer the ZENworks system at the Management Zone level through ZENworks Control
Center (ZCC), a task-based Web browser console. The following graphic shows the ZCC portion of
the Web browser display:
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