Review each of the following sections and take notes as instructed. This information will help you to configure your software packages and their components.
After planning your software package, continue with Section 5.4, Setting Up Server Software Packages.
You can distribute software packages containing files and applications for servers, as well as software packages containing end-user applications for further distribution in ZENworks Desktop Management to workstations. For information on configuring a Desktop Application object, see Application Management
in the Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management Administration Guide.
If you have ZENworks 7 Desktop Management installed, you can also distribute desktop applications using Tiered Electronic Distribution, instead of including them in software packages. For more information, see Section 6.0, Desktop Application Distribution.
You can include a file or application in more than one software package. For instance, a word processor application could be included in a software package designed for a secretarial group and one designed for a financial group.
Where applicable, organize the files and applications into logical groups for inclusion in software packages.
Follow the steps under Section 5.4.2, Creating a Server Software Package and Section 5.4.4, Creating the Software Package Components and note the information you need to know for creating the software package and its components.
You can have one or more components in a software package. For example, if you create a software package for installing virus protection software, you might want one component to be the original virus protection program, and another component a current virus pattern update file.
Components in a software package can each have the same or different installation requirements. If you give the components different requirements, they might not all be installed together. You can save time and minimize error by giving all of the components the same requirements.
IMPORTANT:You should include in the same component the files and applications that are dependent on each other. This prevents problems running the files or applications if a critical component is not installed. If you need to split an application’s files into multiple components, make sure that you make each component’s requirements the same, so that they all are either installed or not installed.
Follow the steps under Section 5.4.5, Configuring the Software Package Components and note the information you need to know for configuring the package components.
Minimum requirements establish whether a software package can be installed on the target machine. If these requirements are all met, you can install the software package on that server.
However, you can establish requirements for the software package as a whole, as well as for each package component. Therefore, if the package’s requirements were all met, but some component requirements were not met, only part of the package would be installed.
Follow the steps under Section 5.4.3, Configuring the Server Software Package and note the information you need to know for configuring the software package.