Assigning Bundles To Devices Vs. Users; Packaging Considerations - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Management Manual

1.2 Assigning Bundles to Devices vs. Users

You can assign bundles to both users and devices. There are differences between the two assignment
types that you need to be aware of. When you assign a bundle to users, the bundle is available to all
assigned users regardless of the device they log on to. When you assign a bundle to a device, the
bundle is available to all users who log on to the assigned device.

1.3 Packaging Considerations

Because of the way that ZENworks Configuration Management handles bundle packaging, be aware
of the following when you create bundles:
Time Required for Packaging: Creating large MSI and MSP bundles might take several
hours to package before they are available on ZENworks content servers (ZENworks Servers
and Content Distribution Points) in your Management Zone.
Large application files are compressed and encrypted, resulting in smaller bundles that reduce
bandwidth during transmission and provide greater security during transmission and on the
content server. The encrypted bundles cannot be removed from the content server and
inappropriately used.
Space Required for Packaging: Creating bundles that contain content temporarily requires up
to twice the amount of disk space as the original files. The bundle creation process uploads
copies of the original files from the local machine to a temporary directory on the ZENworks
content server. The process then packages those files as encrypted, compressed ZENworks
content files. After the ZENworks content files are created, the original uploaded files are
automatically deleted.
If you are using ZENworks Control Center to create the bundle, and if for some reason you do
not log out correctly (you close your browser before completing the Create New Bundle
Wizard, you browse to somewhere else, or your machine crashes), the temporary directory
mentioned above is automatically cleared after the session time-out is reached (30 minutes, by
default).
In some circumstances (the ZENworks Server goes down during processing, for example), the
bundle creation process is unable to delete these temporary files. You can manually delete these
temporary files, as needed.
Depending on the operating system and the utility used to create the bundle, the temporary files
are located in the following directories:
Location of Temporary Files for Windows
Table 1-1
Utility Used to Create Bundle
ZENworks Control Center
zman (command line utility)
ZENworks Migration Utility
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Location of Temporary Files
zenworks_home\share\tomcat\temp
zenworks_home\work\content-repo\tmp
zenworks_home\work\collection\datamodel