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B File Sets and Image Numbers
B.1 File Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
B.2 Image Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
C Replicating the TFTP Directory
C.1 Configuring the TFTP Directory Replication Settings at the Management Zone Level . . . . . 157
C.2 Configuring the TFTP Directory Replication Settings at the Folder Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
C.3 Configuring the TFTP Directory Replication Settings at the Device Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
C.4 Understanding the TFTP Replication Schedule Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
C.4.1 Date Specific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
C.4.2 Recurring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
C.5 Resolving Circular Dependency on the Master Primary Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
C.5.1 Resolving Circular Dependency at the Management Zone Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
C.5.2 Resolving Circular Dependency at the Folder Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
C.5.3 Resolving Circular Dependency at the Device Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
D Third-Party Imaging
D.1 Things to Know Before Working on ZENworks Third-Party Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
D.2 Performing ZENworks Third-Party Imaging by Using ZENworks Control Center. . . . . . . . . . 168
D.3 Setting Up Preboot Services for ZENworks Third-Party Imaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
D.4 Performing ZENworks Third-Party Imaging in the Maintenance Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
D.4.1 Launching the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Novell ZENworks Third Party Imaging Utility170
D.4.2 Taking an Image of a Device and Storing it Locally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
D.4.3 Taking an Image of a Device and Storing it in a Remote Repository . . . . . . . . . . . 171
D.4.4 Restoring a Locally Stored Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
D.4.5 Restoring an Image to a Device on a Shared Network Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
D.4.6 Adding, Deleting, or Activating Disk Partitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
D.4.7 Querying for the Third-Party Imaging Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
D.5 Configuring the Destination Disk Structure Before Restoring a WIM Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
E Imaging Utilities and Components
E.1 Image Explorer (zmgexp) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
E.1.1 Starting Image Explorer on ZENworks Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
E.1.2 Installing and Starting the Image Explorer on a Standalone Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
E.1.3 Determining the Image Explorer Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
E.1.4 Image Explorer versus Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
E.1.5 Opening an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
E.1.6 Saving Image Changes and Exiting the Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
E.1.7 Managing Image Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
E.1.8 Image File Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
E.1.9 Modifying Image Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
E.1.10 Creating a New Image File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
E.2 Novell ZENworks Configuration Management Imaging Agent (novell-ziswin) . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
E.3 Novell ZENworks ISD Service (novell-zisdservice) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
E.3.1 Understanding the SID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
E.3.2 Understanding the ZENworks SIDchanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
E.3.3 Disabling the SIDchanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
E.4 Image-Safe Data Viewer and Editor (zisview and zisedit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
E.4.1 Information Displayed by the Image-Safe Data Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
E.4.2 Using the Image-Safe Data Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
E.4.3 Using the Image-Safe Data Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
E.5 ZENworks Imaging Floppy Boot Disk Creator (zmediacreator) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
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