You can require the server to have a certain operating system before installing the software package.
To configure the server operating system requirement:
With the operating system requirement selected, select the server’s platform.
Available platforms are NetWare, Windows, Linux, and Solaris.
Select the version relationship:
Any Less Than Less Than or Equal To Equal To Greater Than Greater Than or Equal To
If you select an option other than
for the field, fill in the , , and fields according to the information in the following table.For Windows servers, version information cannot be specified. Therefore, Windows is not included in the table.
The
and fields are for the upper version limit. For Netware and Windows, the field is for the required service pack revision. For Linux, the field is for the Linux distribution update version.1 The Subscriber column indicates the Subscriber version that is required for processing the software package on a server platform. You do not need to specify the Subscriber version here; however, the software package cannot be successfully sent and extracted on a server with one of these network operating systems unless the correct product version for the Subscriber software is running on it.
It is possible to have both ZENworks 6.5 (or later) Server Management and ZENworks for Servers 3.0.2 running in your network, such as when you are upgrading incrementally. This table provides platform information for both ZENworks product versions. For information on upgrading incrementally, see Upgrade Concepts and Issues
in the Novell ZENworks 7 Server Management Installation Guide.
2 Where variable is listed for the Linux platforms in this table, the number that you enter in the field is the kernel revision that was either first shipped with the installed Linux operating system, or a later version that you might have updated your Linux servers to. You can use the uname -a command to determine the exact revision number.
Also, the revision number you need to enter depends on what you specify in the 0 in the field and select in the field to include all kernel revisions.
field ( , , and so on). For example, you could enter3 Because Linux versions are the same for Red Hat and SUSE, and you can only select Linux in the field, to differentiate between those two Linux distributions, elsewhere in the software package you can require a certain file belonging to either Red Hat or SUSE to exist on the server. For example, the /etc/SuSE-release file could be required on the server, so that only servers with the SUSE Linux version would be accepted for receiving the software package.