To use the Tiered Electronic Distribution capability of Novell® ZENworks® Server Management effectively, you must correctly install and configure its components on your network. You should have already performed a basic installation of Policy and Distribution Services (see Installation on NetWare and Windows Servers
in the Novell ZENworks 7 Server Management Installation Guide.
For information on configuring policies, see Section 4.0, Server Policies.
This section provides you with the concepts, a planning worksheet, and instructions to help you further configure your Tiered Electronic Distribution system. For more detailed information, see Section 3.0, Tiered Electronic Distribution.
The information provided in the following sections will help you to add new Distributors as needed, finish installing the Subscriber software as needed, configure a Distributor’s routing hierarchy, create some Distributions, and send those Distributions:
Section 1.1, Planning Your Distribution System
In this section, you can use the planning worksheet to keep track of the decisions you need to make. Then you can easily perform your planned configurations from the information on the planning worksheet.
Section 1.2, Configuring Your Distribution System
This section provides the steps for configuring your distribution system.
Section 1.3, Managing Your Distribution System
This section provides an overview of how you can manage your distribution system using Novell ConsoleOne® and Novell iManager.
Section H.0, Configuration Planning Worksheet
The planning worksheet contains basic information for each worksheet entry. It also contains links to where you can view more information to better understand a worksheet entry.
The worksheet should not be used in place of the procedures in Section 1.2, Configuring Your Distribution System, because the worksheet contains only planning information; it does not contain information for the procedures that are not planned.