Best Practices For Adding Packages To Bundles - Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.2 IR2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 09-25-2008 Administration Manual

The following bundle reports are provided with ZENworks Linux Management:
Bundle Reports: This folder contains the following reports:
Bundle Delivery Failures
Bundle Delivery in the Past 24 Hours
Bundle Delivery Information Per Device
Last Bundle Delivery Per Device
Dell Reports: This folder contains the following reports:
Devices Not Having Valid Dell Update Package Bundles <Template>
Devices Not Having Valid RPM Package Bundles <Template>
Installed Dell Applications Per All Devices
Installed Dell Applications Per PowerEdge Model
Device Reports: This folder contains the following reports:
Device Errors in the Past 24 Hours
Device Errors in the Past Week
Devices Disk Usage
Devices Inactive for the Past 90 Days
Devices Registered in the Past 24 Hours
Devices Registered in the Past Week
For more information, see
20.16 Best Practices for Adding Packages to
Bundles
To add multiple packages to a bundle, use zlman.
For more information on zlman, see
To create several bundles with multiple packages, create one bundle at a time and add multiple
packages to it, instead of running the commands at the same time. For example, if you want to
create three bundles with 100 packages each, run the zlman commands in sequence, instead of
executing them from three shells simultaneously.
To assign a large number of bundles to managed devices at one time, create a bundle group in
ZENworks Control Center and assign it to the managed devices. For example, if you want to
assign YOU patches to a server, create a bundle group with all of the YOU patches, and assign
the bundle group to the server instead of assigning the YOU patches individually to the server.
Assigning patches individually would take a long time and might not be completed if done
from ZENworks Control Center.
For more information on bundle groups, see
page 241.
To quickly deploy large package sets, adjust the level of security provided by the connection
between the managed device and the ZENworks Server. To change the security level:
1. On the ZENworks Server, open the /etc/opt/novell/zenworks/tomcat/
base/server.xml file.
256 Novell ZENworks 7.2 Linux Management Administration Guide
Part X, "Reports," on page
zlman (1) (page
Section 20.8, "Creating Bundle Groups," on
519.
547).