Over the last decade, Novell ZENworks has provided the gold standard for centralized configuration and management of network endpoints in today’s complex and heterogeneous corporate networks. ZENworks Configuration Management is a key implementation of ZENworks technology, enabling policy-based automation of software and patch deployment, asset tracking, endpoint security, OS migration, and many other routine tasks.
With ZENworks Configuration Management, the IT staff can synchronize the Windows desktop environment with their company’s business policies, while saving IT time, budget, and resources for strategic projects. All of this focuses on the goal to provide total network management while bringing the associated management effort as close to zero as possible.Introduced in the last quarter of 2007, ZENworks 10 Configuration Management moved towards that goal by using a completely redesigned architecture to greatly simplify, consolidate, and integrate policy-based management of Windows network endpoints, including systems running Windows 7.
The latest version of ZENworks, released in March 2012, moved the bar even higher, offering the following:
Provides a single modular architecture, platform, and agent for all ZENworks products.
Provides a unified, Web-based administration console.
Uses only standards-based protocols.
Reduces overall wire traffic.
Allows full manageability over the Internet.
Simplifies and speeds installation, deployment, and updates.
Scales to support a maximum limit of 40,000 devices to a single Management Zone.
Offers support for the Macintosh platform.