What's New in ZfD 3.2 Support Pack 1

ZfD 3.2 Support Pack 1 (SP1) provides a few new features and some bug fixes.

For more information on the resolved issues, see the TID10071863 at Novell Support Web site.

SP1 provides the following new features for Workstation Inventory:

• New Workstation Inventory snap-in: Reset Component Status

  ZfD 3.2 SP1 provides a new Workstation Inventory snap-in, Reset Component Status, that resets the status attribute of the Inventory Service object to its initial state.

  The status attribute contains the upgrade information of the ZfD Inventory server.

  When the Inventory Service object's status attribute is reset to its initial state, the Upgrade Service updates the schema and data of the Inventory database. This makes the Inventory database compatible with the ZfD 3.2 SP1 Inventory components.

  Use Reset Component Status if you want to run the Upgrade Service in the following scenarios:

  • Install or reinstall the existing database on the same or a different machine
  • Restore an existing database
  • Connect to different type of database

  You can run the Reset Component Status using either of the following methods:

  • In ConsoleOne^®, right-click the Inventory Service object > click ResetComponentStatus.
  • In ConsoleOne, select the Inventory Service object, click the Tools menu, then click ResetComponentStatus.

  After resetting the component status, you must perform the following tasks:

  • Restart the Inventory Service Manager.
  • Trigger a Full scan on the Inventory Service object to rescan all the inventoried workstations.

• You can now configure the following scan parameters by using the SCANSOURCE.INI file:
  • Floppy drive scan parameters such as doFloppyScan, doDMIFloppyScan, and doWMIFloppyScan
  • Logical drive scan parameters such as doWMILogicalDriveScan and doLogicalDriveScan

  By default, the values of these parameters are set to TRUE.

  Following are the valid configuration settings:

  • [FLOPPY]

    doFloppyScan = FALSE

    The Inventory scanner will not scan for the floppy drive.

  • [FLOPPY]

    doDMIFloppyScan = FALSE

    The Inventory scanner will scan for the floppy drive but will not scan from DMI. The floppy drive can be scanned from WMI or Probe.

  • [FLOPPY]

    doWMIFloppyScan = FALSE

    The Inventory scanner will scan for the floppy drive but will not scan from WMI. The floppy drive can be scanned from DMI or Probe.

  • [FLOPPY]

    doWMIFloppyScan = FALSE

    doDMIFloppyScan = FALSE

    The Inventory scanner will scan for the floppy drive but will not scan from WMI and DMI. The floppy drive can be scanned only from Probe.

  • [LOGICALDRIVE]

    doLogicalDriveScan = FALSE

    The Inventory scanner will not scan for the logical drives.

  • [LOGICALDRIVE]

    doWMILogicalDriveScan = FALSE

    The Inventory scanner will scan for the logical drives but will not scan from WMI. The logical drive is scanned from Probe.

• You can now disable scanning of DMI

  To disable scanning of DMI, edit the Inventory_server_installation_path\PUBLIC\ZENWORKS\
  SCANSOURCE.INI file to add the following entry in the [SOURCE] section:

  doDMIScan= FALSE

  By default, the SCANSOURCE.INI file does contain this entry indicating that the DMI scanning is enabled.

• You can now configure the Inventory scanner to periodically send full scans

  On the Inventory server, edit the PUBLIC\ZENWORKS\SCANSOURCE.INI file to add the following entry in the [SOURCE] section:

  FullScanSchedule=interval_for_full_scan

  The value of interval_for_full_scan must be between 5 and 100.

  For example, if the value of FullScanSchedule is set to 10, the Inventory scanner will send a full scan after every ten delta scans.