25.0 User Sources

Novell ZENworks 10 Asset Management enables you to connect to one or more LDAP directories to provide authoritative user sources in ZENworks. Adding a user source lets you associate ZENworks administrator accounts with LDAP user accounts, associate devices with the users who primarily use them, and run asset inventory and management reports that include users.

NOTE:After you define a user source, the ZENworks Adaptive Agent automatically prompts device users to log in to the ZENworks Management Zone. If you do not want users to receive this prompt, you can uninstall or disable the User Management module at the ZENworks Adaptive Agent level. For more information, see Section 13.0, Configuring Adaptive Agent Settings after Deployment.

The following sections provide instructions to define user sources: