Modifying The Stage Timeout - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION REFERENCE 10.3 16-04-2010 System Administration Manual

For information about naming in ZENworks Control Center, see
Conventions in ZENworks Control Center," on page
A newly created stage does not have any members. You must modify the stage's membership
to add them.
4 Add devices to a deployment stage:
4a In the Stage Members column, click View/Modify Members for the stage for which you
want to add members.
4b Click Add, browse for and select the devices, then click OK.
You can add individual devices or device groups, or any combination of them.
You can have both managed servers and workstations in the same deployment stage or in
different stages, or you can split your servers and workstations into separate deployment
stages.
IMPORTANT: Some of your network servers will be Primary Servers for use in
ZENworks management, while other servers on your network might only be managed
devices with the ZENworks Adaptive Agent installed on them.
You must update your Primary Servers before updating any of the other managed servers
and especially before updating any managed workstations.
4c Repeat Step 4b
4d To add members to another stage, repeat
5 Repeat Step 2 through
6 If you need to reorder the sequence of the deployment stages, select a stage, then click Move
Up or Move Down.
If you are using one of the stages for test purposes, make sure that it is first in the listing.

20.2.3 Modifying the Stage Timeout

A stage timeout sets the length of time before a stage terminates. The default timeout is 3 days. You
set the value for individual stage timeouts by using the procedure in this section. The global stage
timeout value is established by following the steps in
You cannot modify a stage if an update is in progress.
To set the timeout value for a selected stage:
1 In ZENworks Control Center, click Configuration in the left pane, then click the System
Updates tab.
2 In the Deployment Stages panel, select the check box for a stage, click Action, then select
Modify Stage Timeout to display the following dialog box:
until you are finished adding members to the stage.
Step 4 until you have created all of your deployment stages.
Appendix A, "Naming
361.
Step 4a through Step 4c.
"Stage Timeout Settings" on page 180.
Configuring Updates 185