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If you ever need to get patches from Novell, you're going to love this. They've made several enhancements to the Novell patch download experience based on customer and partner feedback. Here's what's new. (Our favorite is the new Quick Search that makes it so you don't have to navigate through all those drop-down menus to get to your product version.)

Novell is pleased to announce the availability of Novell Support Advisor 2.0. Novell Support Advisor is a free tool that allows you to perform both pro-active and reactive system and application diagnostic tasks in a local, secure and automated fashion. Download the new 2.0 version free of charge and start taking advantage of the following benefits today.

Updated: Utility to install/remove/update ZENworks Patch Management Agent.

A Custom Reporting ZLM Tool which encompasses generating custom HTML based reports of different types based on the underlying information in ZLM schema . These reports can be generated for different use cases or requirements related to bundles, packages, software updates, policies, inventory, logs and devices. It also provides some utility options applicable to better usage of reports .

Utilizing ZMAN and scripting on your primary server, you can ensure that the local administrator password changes once a week on all machines associated to the password change bundle. This can be scheduled via CRON, or run manually whenever the password needs to be changed. A record of all previous passwords and version numbers is maintained, and can be associated to the ZCM help desk accounts. NOTE: This script was written for a Linux primary server and is written in bash, however it could be modified to run in vbs and run on a Windows primary server.

With ZENworks Configuration Management 10SP3 you can customize the look and feel of the Agent icons, allowing you to replace the default icon, the refresh animation and the update icon. This can be done via a ZENworks bundle, simply place the .ico files in the correct location and they will be picked up on a workstation restart.

Check out this new Novell Connection magazine article by Jason Blackett and learn about the new features in Novell ZENworks Configuration Management 10 SP3.

Ever wanted to run zman locally from a workstation instead of the server console? Here's how to make it happen...