This section provides instructions to help you install Novell® ZENworks® 7 Policy-Enabled Server Management (Policy and Distribution Services, Server Inventory, and Remote Management) where ZENworks has not been previously installed.
If any version of ZENworks Server Management exists on any of your servers, you must upgrade those servers. For instructions, see Section IV, Upgrade.
New in ZENworks 7 is the ability to install Policy and Distribution Services to a workstation. For more information, see Section 6.2, Installation on Windows Workstations.
If you have a mixed operating system environment (such as NetWare, Windows, and Linux or Solaris), you should install to the NetWare® and Windows servers first, because you may need the eDirectory™ instance installed on the NetWare or Windows server for creating the ZENworks eDirectory objects.
You can also use the installation program to reinstall a clean version of ZENworks 7 over itself, such as for resetting a test environment, because reinstalling resets configurations to the defaults that you establish when running the installation program.
Use the following sections to install ZENworks 7 Server Management: