A.1 ZENworks Orchestrator Install Pattern Descriptions

This section includes information about the server and agent installation patterns available for installing a ZENworks Orchestrator 1.2 ISO on a SUSE Linux machine.

NOTE:Because the Eclipse GUI is not a part of the Add-on Product patterns, its installation is explained in the Novell ZENworks Orchestrator 1.2 Virtual Machine Management Guide.

A.1.1 ZENworks Orchestrator Server Install Pattern Descriptions

The following sections describe the purpose of the various server patterns that you can install.

ZENworks Orchestrator Server: The Orchestrator Server is the gateway between enterprise applications and resource servers. The server manages computing nodes (resources) and it also manages jobs that are submitted from applications to run on these resources.

ZENworks Virtual Machine Warehouse: The VM Warehouse is used to:

  • Store VM images and image data

  • Version VM images and image data

  • Designate the gold master VM image and image data

  • Check out VM images and image data

  • Check in VM images and image data

ZENworks Monitoring Server: The Monitoring Server uses open source Ganglia monitoring to monitor the performance of certain data on network resources in a user-specified time period.

A.1.2 ZENworks Orchestrator Agent Install Pattern Descriptions

The following sections describe the purpose of the various agent patterns that you can install.

ZENworks Orchestrator Agent: The Orchestrator Agent is installed on all computing resources that are to be managed. It runs applications under the management of the Orchestrator Server and reports its status to the Orchestrator Server.

ZENworks Orchestrator Clients: The Orchestrator Clients let a computing resource administrator troubleshoot, initiate, change, or shut down server functions for ZENworks Orchestrator and its computing resources. When you install the Orchestrator Clients on a computing resource, you are installing the following tools:

  • zos command line interface

  • zosadmin command line interface

  • ZENworks Orchestrator Console

  • Java SDK (toolkit)

ZENworks Virtual Machine Builder: The VM Builder agent is installed on a computer with the Xen* hypervisor to allow it to be used as a build machine for VMs as the jobs are sent to it by the ZENworks Orchestrator Server.

ZENworks Monitoring Agent: The Monitoring Agent is installed with any installation of the Orchestrator Agent. This installs the Ganglia Agent on the monitored node, which collects performance metrics and sends this data to the ZENworks Monitoring Server.

ZENworks Orchestrator Config: The configuration is not visible as an installation pattern, but is required for most of the patterns you install. For more information, see Section A.0, ZENworks Orchestrator Components: Install Patterns.