Delivering Software Packages - Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.2 IR2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 09-25-2008 Administration Manual

You can create additional administrator accounts that provide full access to your ZENworks system.
You can also create accounts that limit administrative rights to specific folders (device folders,
policy folders, bundle folders, and report folders).
To limit administrator rights, you assign an account rights at the folder level. The root folders are /
Bundles, /Devices, /Policies, and /Reports. Rights assigned at a root folder are
effective in all subfolders (for example, /Bundles/Workstations) unless specifically
overridden at the subfolder level.
Depending on the administrative functions you want an administrator to be able to perform, you can
give an account one of the following levels of rights:
All: Provides create, delete, and modify rights to all objects within the folder.
Modify: Provides rights to edit existing objects only.
View: Provides rights to view object information.
For example, if you want an administrator to be able to view bundles that are located in the /
Bundles folder and create, delete, or modify bundles in the /Bundles/Workstations folder,
you would assign the administrator View rights to the /Bundles folder and All rights to the /
Bundles/Workstation folder.
To create an administrator account:
1 In the ZENworks Control Center, click the Configuration tab.
2 In the Administrators list, click New to display the Add New Administrator dialog box.
3 Provide a username and password for the account, then click OK to add the account to the
Administrators list.
The administrator can change the password the first time he or she logs in by clicking the key
icon located next to the Logout link in the upper right corner of the ZENworks Control Center.
The newly created administrator account is granted View rights to all objects in the
Management Zone. To grant additional rights, or to limit the administrator's rights to specific
folders only, you need to modify the rights.
4 In the Administrators list, click the administrator account to display the account details.
5 Modify the assigned rights. For information about the options on the page, click Help or see
Chapter 8, "ZENworks Administrator Accounts," on page
6 When you are finished modifying the rights, click Apply to save the changes.

1.4 Delivering Software Packages

Software packages are delivered to devices through the use of RPM bundles and catalogs.
An RPM bundle is a grouping of one or more software packages. Bundles contain one or more files
that are installed to particular locations on a device, plus information about the bundle, such as
version, description, what applications must also be present for it to be installed, and more. A
catalog is a group of bundles.
The fundamental difference between RPM bundles and catalogs is that the software in bundles is
automatically installed, but users can choose whether or not to install the software included in
catalogs. Catalogs are displayed in the ZENworks Linux Management Updater Client, which is part
of the ZENworks Agent. For more information, see
Installer, and Remover from Users' Managed Devices," on page
Section 6.3, "Using the Software Updater,
A Quick Tutorial on Basic ZENworks Linux Management Features
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