Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - MIGRATION GUIDE 10.3 30-03-2010 Migration Manual page 58

To migrate workstations from eDirectory to Configuration Management:
1 To overwrite existing Workstation objects in the ZENworks database, click
Tool Settings
option, then click Save Settings to exit the dialog box.
WARNING: This overwrites any existing Workstation objects in the database, including those
that were previously migrated.
The Skip saving/loading history option allows you to dramatically improve performance on
large migrations by not storing the local history.
There are currently no global migration options specific to workstations.
2 Click Step 5: Workstations in the Migration Tasks field.
3 To model the migration, do the following:
3a In the Source eDir Tree panel, navigate the eDirectory contexts to locate the Workstation
objects to be migrated. To stop listing of the objects in the Source eDir Tree, click
The eDirectory information that is displayed is filtered according to the type of
information that you are migrating. Therefore, you only need to browse through the
contexts and objects that can be migrated for the selected type.
3b If necessary, right-click anywhere in the Destination Zone panel to create a folder for the
objects to be queued for migration, then select New folder.
You can create as many folders as needed, including nesting them. This structure is
created in the ZENworks database and is viewable as folders in ZENworks Control
Center; however, the folders are not created until you click the Migrate Now button.
You might want to determine the folder structure for your Workstation objects, and create
and migrate those folders before queueing Workstation objects to them.
IMPORTANT: We recommend that you migrate existing eDirectory containers and all of
their Workstation objects (including subcontainers). This allows you to maintain GUIDs
for device associations.
eDirectory containers that you queue are converted into folders containing all of the
Workstation objects that exist in eDirectory under those contexts. If you select a container
in the Source eDir Tree panel and drag it to the Destination Zone panel, all subcontainers
and their Workstation objects are also placed in the Destination Zone panel in their
respective folders.
After queueing a container in the Destination Zone panel, you can individually delete
queued items that you don't want to migrate by selecting the items, right-clicking them,
then selecting Delete selected items. You are asked to confirm the deletion.
3c In the Source eDir Tree panel, select the Workstation objects or containers to be migrated
and drag them into the Destination Zone panel.
This queues the items for migration.
You can use the Ctrl and the arrow keys or Shift and the arrow keys to select multiple
items.
As you drag items from one panel to the other, the items listed in the Destination Zone
panel are automatically sorted.
If you drag an item multiple times, it is only queued once.
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icon), select the General option, select the Overwrite objects that already exists
(the Migration
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