Installation Directories; A.3.1 Installation Directories; The Zenworks Content Repository - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - SYSTEM PLANNING-DEPLOYMENT-BEST PRACTICES GUIDE 10.3 30-03-2010 System Planning Manual

A.3.1 Installation Directories

ZENworks Configuration Management uses the installation directories listed here. It is important to
keep this in mind and be aware of where ZENworks Configuration Management is storing files.
This is useful when you are troubleshooting specific functionality in ZENworks Configuration
Management:
Windows installation directories:
Installation_directory
Linux Installation directories:
/opt/novell/zenworks/
/etc/opt/novell/zenworks
/var/opt/novell/zenworks
/var/opt/novell/log/zenworks/
For best performance, you should use separated disks and logical drives for the OS and the
installation directory. In addition, the database (if it is embedded) and log file size can increase very
quickly, so it is better to have them on separate partitions.
A.3.2 The ZENworks Content Repository
The content repository is found in the following location on a Windows server:
installation_path\zenworks\work\content-repo
You should specify a different disk drive to be your content repository. This is based on best
practices that Novell outlines for ZENworks Configuration Management. In Windows, this is done
by mounting the drive. Mounting is simply pointing an existing path to a hard drive partition without
the use of mapped drive letters.
In the following steps, you mount the default content repository location to a disk drive partition,
which becomes the new content repository:
1 Make sure that the disk drive you want to use is attached to the server and is properly formatted
as NTFS. This disk drive can be an existing drive or new drive for the machine. The hardware
must be recognized by the server. However, do not specify a drive letter if you are adding a new
disk drive to the machine. Windows does not allow mounting to a drive letter.
2 Because an empty
(
installation_path\zenworks\work\content-repo
Repository location, do one of the following to make sure that there is no content in the default
location:
If you need to save the content that is now in this directory, rename the existing directory
and create a new directory named
You can then copy the content from this renamed directory to the new Content Repository
location.
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/ZENWORKS
directory must exist in the default location
content-repo
content-repo
) to be the pointer to the new Content
.