3.4 Getting Ready to Use the Desktop Management Server

The ZENworks Desktop Management Server can be installed on NetWare 6 SP4 servers, NetWare 6.5 SP3 servers, Windows 2000 SP2 servers, Windows Server 2003 machines, SLES 9 servers, or OES Linux servers. The following sections provide details on where to find additional information about the prerequisites, installation steps, and configuration for the Desktop Management Server:

3.4.1 Preinstallation Considerations

It is important that you understand the procedure for preparing to install the Desktop Management Server. We recommend that you review the following documentation, which details the hardware and software requirements and other installation prerequisites of the Desktop Management Server installation.

NOTE:If the Desktop Management Server is installed on a Windows 2000/2003 server, the server must have Microsoft Active Directory installed and it must be designated as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC).

If the server has the Novell Client installed, the client must be set up to work over the IP protocol, not IPX™.

If the ZENworks Middle Tier Server is installed on a Windows 2000/2003 server and it will communicate with the Desktop Management Server installed on a Windows 2000/2003 server, both of those servers must be members of the same Microsoft domain.

3.4.2 Installing the Desktop Management Server

The procedure you should use for installing the Desktop Management Server is detailed in Installing the ZENworks Desktop Management Server and Installing the Desktop Management Server and the Middle Tier Server on the Same Machine in Windows-Based Installation in the Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management Installation Guide.

The Desktop Management Server installation program lets you install the software to multiple servers, but because the ZENworks Middle Tier Server software installation allows for only one IP entry, not all of the Desktop Management Servers you set up can be used.

You can specify values in the Add Host field of the Authentication Domains page of the NSAdmin utility to add other Desktop Management Servers to which your users can background authenticate. If your primary Desktop Management Server goes down, these other servers are connected to the ZENworks Middle Tier Server without losing any ZENworks functionality. For more information, see Authentication Domains (Xtier 2.6.2 installation).

The options you can use for installing ZENworks Desktop Management Server software on a SLES 9 SP1 or OES Linux server are detailed in Installing ZENworks Desktop Management Services on Linux in the Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management Installation Guide.

3.4.3 Configuring the Desktop Management Server

The Desktop Management Server installation program installs selected .jar files to the \consoleone directory of the server or servers you also select. These files are the ZENworks 7 Desktop Management snap-ins that you use to manage the ZENworks objects in a directory tree.

The Desktop Management snap-ins are used by ConsoleOne®, a graphical-interface management tool that can be installed and run either on a network server you are authenticated to or to your local workstation. ConsoleOne can view eDirectory objects of ZENworks (for example, workstation objects, application objects, policies, database objects, and so on) in trees to which you are authenticated.

When you manage or create a ZENworks object using ConsoleOne, you can define the path to the server location of application files and policy files. The location of these “ZENworks files” never changes, even though the policy or other eDirectory object that defines them might be replicated throughout the eDirectory tree.

If you want to configure any component of ZENworks 7 Desktop Management, you need to identify the object with which that component is associated and then make the adjustments you want.

For details about creating or configuring the components of Desktop Management, see the appropriate section in this guide: