Chapter 3: Discovering Available Nodes; Discovering Devices And Installing Agents Using The Wizard; Using The Wizard To Perform An Ldap Scan - Novell ZENWORKS PATCH MANAGEMENT 6.4 User Manual

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Discovering Available Nodes
The AMC allows you to automatically discover devices within a specified Windows Domain, IP
address range, or a LDAP Organizational Unit. The results of this discovery will then tell you
whether the discovered device has the ZENworks Patch Management Agent installed, and allow you
to install or uninstall agents, and remove offline agents.

Discovering Devices and Installing Agents Using the Wizard

The Discovery and Installation Wizard allows you to search for devices within a Windows Domain,
IP range, or LDAP Organizational Unit and install an ZENworks Patch Management Agent on those
devices.

Using the Wizard to Perform an LDAP Scan

If your Agent Management Center is installed on a computer within domain using LDAP, you can
use the Discovery and Installation Wizard to search for other devices within that domain.
Performing an LDAP Scan
1. Select Wizards > Discovery and Agent Installation to open the Discovery and Installation
Wizard.
The Welcome page opens.
Figure 3.1 Welcome page
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