4.4 Performing a Silent Install of the ZENworks Orchestrator Agent on Multiple Network Resources

In a large data center, it might not be practical to perform an interactive configuration of the Orchestrator Agent on the multiple servers that you intend to use for Orchestrator resources. The information in this section provides information about performing a silent install and configuration under different circumstances:

4.4.1 Silent Install and Configuration of the Orchestrator Agent RPM

Use the following process to configure the Orchestrator Agent RPM (downloaded from the product ISO) on multiple servers:

  1. Perform the product installation and manual configuration of the agent on a “seed” machine. The processes to do this are described in Section 4.2.1, Installation and Configuration Steps.

  2. On the “seed” machine, copy the file found at /etc/opt/novell/novell_zenworks_orch_install.conf to a location where you can modify it locally.

  3. Edit the local copy of novell_zenworks_orch_install.conf, updating the fields that require a password (for security purposes, when a configuration program runs, the passwords in the .conf file are wiped).

  4. Edit any other fields you may find necessary for the configuration of the Orchestrator Agent.

  5. Distribute the modified file to the machine(s) where you want to perform a silent configuration.

  6. At the machine where you distributed the .conf file, open YaST and perform the Add-on Installation of the RPMs as described in Step 1 through Step 4 in Section 4.2, Installing and Configuring ZENworks Orchestrator Components. Make sure that you do not configure the agent manually.

  7. From the bash prompt on the machine where you are configuring the agent, run the following command: 

    /opt/novell/zenworks/orch/bin/config -s -C $CONF_FILE

    where CONF_FILE is the modified configuration file from Step 5, above.

The silent configuration runs, then the agent is displayed in the ZENworks Orchestrator Console as registered with the server node.

4.4.2 Silent Install and Configuration of the Orchestrator Agent for Windows

The Windows Agent installer can be downloaded from the Administrator Information page, as documented in Section 4.3.2, Installing the Agent and Clients from the Administrator Information Page (Unsupported).

ZENworks Orchestrator includes an installation help page that provides tips for installing the Windows Orchestrator Agent on many machines by using some sort of scripting or automation.

The page is accessed from the Orchestrator Server’s IP address:

http://IP_address:8001/install.html

Figure 4-1 ZENworks Orchestrator Silent Installation Help for the Windows Agent