System Planning, Deployment, and Best Practices Guide

  System Planning, Deployment, and Best Practices Guide
    ZENworks Configuration Management: A Single Solution for Systems Management
      The Goal: Total Management, Zero Effort
      The Management Paradigm
      The Solution: ZENworks Configuration Management
    Performing Pre-Design Activities
      Perform a Business Assessment
      Perform a Technical Assessment
      Gather Other Critical Information
      Develop High-Level Design
      Develop Documentation
      Outputs from Pre-Design Activities
    Gathering Critical Information for Design Activities
      Design Criteria/Decisions
      Scalability of the Primary Server
      Scalability of Satellite Devices
      Scalability, Fault Tolerance, Maintenance, and Sizing of the Database Server
      Virtualization Considerations
      Ports Used by ZENworks Components
      Network Considerations
    Performing Design Activities
      Design Workshops
      Developing a Detailed Design
      Lab Testing and Validation
      Documentation
    Deploying ZENworks Configuration Management
      Pre-Deployment Planning
      Pre-Deployment Documentation
      Deployment Rules of Thumb
      Pre-Deployment Testing
      Pilots
      Migration
      Wider Deployment
      Post-Deployment Documentation and Validation
    Deployment and Migration Scenarios
      New ZENworks Customer
      Migrating From a Previous Version of ZENworks
    ZENworks Services
      ZENworks Services
      Useful URLs
      Critical File Locations
      Logging Information
      Backing Up and Restoring the ZENworks Certificate Authority
    The ZENworks Configuration Management Architecture
      ZENworks Architecture Reference
      Detailed ZENworks Components Diagram
    ZENworks Configuration Management Tuning Parameters For Bundle Distribution
      JAVA Memory Allocation:
      Threads
      CLIENT RETRIES
      Recommendations
    Reference Materials
      Online Documentation
      Sample Business Requirements Survey Questions
      Sample Technical Requirements Survey Questions
      Extended Port Chart Including Port Usage
    Documentation Updates
      October 24, 2010
    Legal Notices