Registration Rules

The Registration Rules panel lets you determine whether registration rules are enabled or disabled. Click the following headings for information about each option.

Enable Use of Registration Rules

Registration rules let you automatically add devices to different folders and groups based on predefined criteria (for example, operating system type, CPU, or IP address). If you don’t want to use registration rules, deselect this option, then click Apply to save the change. With registration rules disabled, devices are added to folders and groups only if you use registration keys or manually add them.

Enable Use of Default Registration Rules

This option is available only if the Enable Use of Registration Rules option is enabled.

To ensure that no server or workstation registration fails, ZENworks includes a default registration rule for servers and another one for workstations. The two default registration rules are applied if all other registration rules fail. The rules cause all servers to be added to the /Servers folder and all workstations to the /Workstations folder. If you don’t want to use the default registration rules, deselect this option, then click Apply to save the change.

Disable Use of Registration Keys sent by Managed Devices

If you select this option, the registration keys sent by the managed device will be considered by the server only if the device is being registered for the first time.

The following table provides information about the behavior of this feature in the various scenarios:

ZENworks Control Center Setting	Agent-side Registry Key	Behavior
Enabled	Enabled	The group membership will be updated only when the device is registered for the first time.
Enabled	Disabled	The group membership will be updated only when the device is registered for the first time.
Disabled	Enabled	The group membership will be updated during a network connect or disconnect, when the device is registered for the first time, when the zac add-reg-key command is executed. and on every refresh.
Disabled	Disabled	The group membership will be updated during a network connect or disconnect, the first time the device is registered, when the zac add-reg-key command is executed.