9.1 What Happens During Registration

The ZENworks Adaptive 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 Section 9.4, 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 Section 9.2, Creating Registration Keys and Rules for more information.