9.1 What Happens During Registration

The ZENworks Agent includes a service that performs all registration tasks. The tasks performed by the Registration service depend on whether the device is registering for the first time, performing a scheduled refresh, or reregistering with a new registration key. The following table lists the tasks performed in each scenario.

Table 9-1 Registration tasks

Task

Initial Registration

Refresh

Reregistration 1

Create device object in ZENworks database

Yes

No

No

Name device object according to device naming template

Yes

Yes 2

Yes 2

Add device to folder

Yes

No

No

Add device to groups 3

Yes

No

Yes

Add site, department, and location information 3

Yes

No

Yes

Update device attributes (GUID, IP address, DNS name, last contact time, etc.)

Yes

Yes

Yes

1 Reregistration assumes that the device object has not been removed from the ZENworks database and that the device is simply being reregistered using a new registration key.

2 Occurs only if the Device Dynamic Rename option is enabled. See Enabling Dynamic Renaming of Devices During Registration for more information.

3 Occurs only if the key or rule being used for registration includes this information. See Creating Registration Keys and Rules for more information.

During registration, if you configure the SendRegKeyOnEveryRefresh registry key on the agent, after every refresh, the agent will send the registration key in the initial-web-service file, and the group membership will be updated after every refresh. For more information, see the ZENworks Registry Keys Reference.