Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - INSTALLATION 10.3 Installation Manual page 11

Item Requirements
Hostname The server must resolve device
Resolution hostnames by using properly
configured DNS, otherwise some
features in ZENworks will not work
properly.
Server names must support DNS
requirements, such as not having
underscores in their names, or
ZENworks login fails. Acceptable
characters are the letters a-z
(uppercase and lowercase), numbers,
and the hyphen (-).
IP Address The server must have a static IP
address or a permanently leased
DHCP address.
An IP address must be bound to
all NICs on your target server.
Microsoft .NET The Microsoft* .NET 2.0 software and
(Only for its latest updates must be installed
Windows) and running on the Windows Primary
Server in order to install ZENworks 10
Configuration Management.
Mono (Only for Mono
SLES 11) installed on the SLES 11 Primary
Servers.
The following RPM packages
must be installed on the Linux
Primary Servers:
libgdiplus
mono-core
®
2.0.1-1.17 must be
0
Additional Details
Installation hangs if it is trying to use a NIC
that does not have an IP address bound to
it.
You are given the option to launch the .NET
installation during installation of ZENworks.
If you select the option, .NET 2.0 is
installed. For better performance and
stability, you should upgrade to the latest
support packs and patches of .NET 2.0
through Windows Automatic Updates or
Patch Management on the agent.
.NET 2.0 SP2 is the latest version supported
by Microsoft on Windows Server 2003 and
Windows Server 2008. On Windows Server
2003, you can directly download and install
.NET 2.0 SP2 or upgrade to .NET 3.5 SP1,
which includes .NET 2.0 SP2. On Windows
Server 2008, you must upgrade to .NET 3.5
SP1 to get the .NET 2.0 SP2 update
installed.
You can choose to either install Mono during
the installation of ZENworks or download
the recommended Mono version and the
RPM packages from the Mono Download
Web site (http://www.go-mono.com/mono-
downloads/download.html).
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