3.1 Common Distribution Tasks

Table 3-1 through Table 3-6 provide documentation links to common Tiered Electronic Distribution tasks. All links are to sections in this Policy and Distribution Services portion of the Administration guide.

Tiered Electronic Distribution Objects

Table 3-1 Common Tiered Electronic Distribution Tasks

Task

Instructions

Create a Distributor or Subscriber

Installation on NetWare and Windows Servers in the Novell ZENworks 7 Server Management Installation Guide

Configure multiple Tiered Electronic Distribution objects

Section 3.9, Configuring Multiple Tiered Electronic Distribution Objects

Change the DNS name or IP address of a Tiered Electronic Distribution server

Changing DNS Names or IP Addresses for Tiered Electronic Distribution Servers

Distributor

Table 3-2 Common Distributor Tasks

Task

Instructions

Configure a Distributor object

Configuring Distributors

Create a routing hierarchy for a Distributor

Understanding Distribution Routing and Configuring Distributors

Delete a Distributor object

Deleting a Distributor Object and How Its Distributions Are Affected

Refresh a Distributor

Manually Refreshing the Distributor

Create a security certificate on a Distributor and copy it to its associated Subscribers

Creating Security Certificates for Non-Encrypted Distributions

Distribution

Table 3-3 Common Distribution Tasks

Task

Instructions

Create a Distribution

Section 3.4, Distributions

Delete a Distribution

Deleting a Distribution

Managing orphaned Distributions (when their Distributor object has been deleted)

Deleting a Distributor Object and How Its Distributions Are Affected

Schedule and send a Distribution

Section 3.10, Sending Distributions

Force a Distribution to be sent

Forcing a Single Distribution To Be Sent

Use a parent Subscriber to send a Distribution

Sending Distributions Through Parent Subscribers

Send a Distribution to another tree

Sending Distributions between Trees

Import or export a Distribution manually

Manually Importing and Exporting Distributions

Create and send a File Distribution using a wizard

Using the Distribution Wizard

Channel

Table 3-4 Common Channel Tasks

Task

Instructions

Create a Channel

Creating and Configuring Channels

Force a Channel to fire

Forcing a Channel To Be Sent

Subscriber

Table 3-5 Common Subscriber Tasks

Task

Instructions

Configure a Subscriber object

Configuring Subscribers

Create an External Subscriber object

Creating and Configuring External Subscribers

Configure the tednode.properties file for a Subscriber server that does not have its own configuration capability

Section 3.13, Editing the Tednode.properties File

Network Traffic Management

Table 3-6 Common Network Traffic Management Tasks

Task

Instructions

Control bandwidth usage for Distribution traffic by setting the I/O rates

Controlling I/O Rates and Concurrent Distributions

Minimize network messaging traffic

Minimizing Messaging Traffic