Enabling Reconciliation - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - ASSET INVENTORY REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Reference Manual

3 Add or edit information on the Edit Workstation page.
User: Basic information about the user, including name, phone, and so on.
Reference: Inventory type, serial number, and asset tag. These values cannot be changed.
Workstation: Basic information about the workstation, including site, department, and so on.
Click the icon on the right to create a list of responses. Click the calendar icon next to the Lease
Expiration Date field to choose a date.
4 Click Submit.
The data is added to the inventory report.

3.5 Enabling Reconciliation

Inventory Only Reconciliation allows you to control whether and how new workstations are
reconciled to avoid the possibility of duplicates in the database. When a scan is made of a
workstation that is new to the Management Zone, it is assigned an identifier. If the identifier is lost,
such as by a disk crash, it is assigned a new identifier during the next scan. Reconciliation allows
you to check whether the workstation is already in the database. If it is, the identifier in the database
is changed to match the new identifier.
You can use any or all of the following device attributes to identify a workstation for possible
reconciliation:
Serial Number
MAC Address
Machine Name
To enable inventory only reconciliation:
1 In ZENworks Control Center, click the Configuration tab.
2 In the Management Zone Settings panel, click Inventory.
3 In the Category list, click Inventory Only Reconciliation.
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