Novell Documentation: ZENworks for Servers 3

May 17, 2002

Updates were made to the following sections. The changes are explained below.

Planning the Configuration

The following changes were made in this section:

Location	Change
Determining Whether You Need Encryption Security for Windows Servers	NICI must be installed on Windows servers where encrypted Distributions are either built or extracted. A new planning section was added.
Installing NICI on Windows Servers	Added this new configuration section for NICI.
Configuration Planning Worksheet	Inserted two new worksheet items at the beginning for installing NICI, causing all other worksheet items to be renumbered.
Understanding External Subscribers	In the last bullet, corrected the location for where to find the TEDNODE.PROPERTIES file: A sample of the TEDNODE.PROPERTIES file is located on the ZENworks for Servers Companion CD under ZFS\TEDPOL\SFILES\TED.
Multiple Databases	Added information in this section concerning multiple databases and Distributor objects using the same context. Only one Service Location Package can be associated with a given context. This section has been rearranged into three subsections.

Configuring Policy and Distribution Services

The following changes were made in this section:

Location	Change
Installing Additional Distributors, Databases, and Subscribers	Clarified database installation: only one can be installed per run of the Installation Wizard. Edited several steps and added a final step for repeating the process to install additional databases.

Location

Change

Installing Additional Distributors, Databases, and Subscribers

Clarified database installation: only one can be installed per run of the Installation Wizard.

Edited several steps and added a final step for repeating the process to install additional databases.

Managing Your Distribution System

The following changes were made in this section:

Location	Change
Refreshing the Distributor	Added this new section to document why and how to refresh the Distributor.
Tiered Electronic Distribution Policy	Added the following paragraph in Step 5 under Value: To ensure that extraction will take place, provide an absolute path to the Subscriber. For example, if the path is only the DATA volume, make sure the colon (:) is included, because it is a necessary part of the full path. Also added this paragraph in: Step 7 under Value in Configuring Subscribers . Step 5 under Value in Tiered Electronic Distribution . Step 4 in Creating Default Variables for All Subscribers . Step 4 in Creating Variables for a Specific Subscriber . Step 4 in Using Variables to Control File Extraction .

Location

Change

Refreshing the Distributor

Added this new section to document why and how to refresh the Distributor.

Tiered Electronic Distribution Policy

Added the following paragraph in Step 5 under Value:

To ensure that extraction will take place, provide an absolute path to the Subscriber. For example, if the path is only the DATA volume, make sure the colon (:) is included, because it is a necessary part of the full path.

Also added this paragraph in:

Step 7 under Value in Configuring Subscribers .

Step 5 under Value in Tiered Electronic Distribution .

Step 4 in Creating Default Variables for All Subscribers .

Step 4 in Creating Variables for a Specific Subscriber .

Step 4 in Using Variables to Control File Extraction .

Automating Server Software Installations and Updates

The following changes were made in this section:

Location	Change
Converting Older Server Software Packages to ZfS 3	Corrected the TID number to 2962260 (was incorrectly listed as 10069358).

Understanding Security in ZENworks for Servers

The following changes were made in this section:

Location	Change
Security for Inter-Server Communication Across Non -Secured Connections	Moved all of the installation information inter-server communications security into the Installation guide. For the new location of the moved information, see Installing Additional Security for Non-secured Connections under Installing ZENworks for Servers in the Installation guide.