34.0 Advanced Distribution: Transferring Applications Using BITS

This functionality is available beginning with Support Pack 1 of Novell® ZENworks® 7. The Support Pack 1 Desktop Management Agent must be installed on each workstation that will use the Microsoft* Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to transfer applications to the workstation. Versions of the Desktop Management Agent prior to Support Pack 1 do not support BITS.

Novell Application Launcher™ can use BITS to transfer applications to a workstation. Unlike Application Launcher which competes with other applications for available network bandwidth, BITS uses idle network bandwidth to transfer files, increasing or decreasing the rate at which files are transferred based on the amount of idle network bandwidth available. For example, if a network application begins to consume more bandwidth, BITS decreases its transfer rate.

IMPORTANT:BITS is not supported in a ZENworks environment that uses a Middle Tier Server.

The following sections provide background information and setup instructions for using BITS. You should complete the sections in the order listed.

  1. Section 34.1, Understanding How Application Launcher Uses BITS

  2. Section 34.2, Setting Up Workstations

  3. Section 34.3, Enabling Application Launcher to Use BITS

  4. Section 34.4, Configuring an Application to be Transferred by BITS

  5. Section 34.5, Changing the Default Settings for a BITS Job

  6. Section 34.6, Changing the BITS Maximum Network Bandwidth Setting