To use Novell® ZENworks® for Servers (ZfS) Policy and Distribution Services 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 Installing Policy and Distribution Services on NetWare and Windows Servers in Installing ZENworks for Servers in the Installation guide).
The following sections provide you with the concepts, a planning worksheet, and instructions to help you configure Policy and Distribution Services fully so that you can use its features to manage your network.
In one planning session, you can plan to configure all or just part of your distribution system, depending on the complexity of your network and how much you intend to learn by doing.
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. You can consult these sections at any time to add and configure new Distributors, or to add new Distributions.
In this planning section, you can use the planning worksheet to keep track of the decisions you will be making. Then you can easily perform your planned configurations from the information on the planning worksheet.
If you have a good understanding of Tiered Electronic Distribution (TED) in ZfS 3, you can skip this section.
This section provides the steps for configuring Policy and Distribution Services.
If you skip the planning section, you can fill in the planning worksheet and continue with this section, or just continue with this section.
This section provides an overview on how you can manage your distribution system using ConsoleOne® and Novell iManager.
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 Configuring Your Distribution System , because the worksheet only contains information where planning is necessary. The worksheet does not contain information for procedures where planning is not required.