25.4 Distributing Catalogs from a Public ZENworks Linux Management Server

The following sections contain additional information:

25.4.1 Creating a Public ZENworks Linux Management Server

  1. Create a default registration rule on the ZENworks Linux Management Server that creates a device in a specified folder.

    For more information, see Section III, Device Registration and Section 17.2, Creating Folders.

  2. Assign all catalogs that you want to make public to that folder.

    For more information, see Section 22.3, Assigning Catalogs.

25.4.2 Accessing a Public ZENworks Linux Management Server

  1. Create a zlmmirror configuration file.

    For more information, see Section 25.3.1, Creating the Configuration Files by using the Command Line Utility.

  2. Install the ZENworks Linux Management agent on a workstation and register against the public ZENworks Linux Management Server using no registration key (to use the default registration rule).

    For more information, see Installing the ZENworks Agent and Registering the Device in the Novell ZENworks 7.3 Linux Management Installation Guide.

  3. Copy the contents of the deviceid and secret file from that workstation (/etc/opt/novell/zenworks/zmd on SLES 9 and OES, /etc/zmd on SLES 10 and SLED 10) to the zlmmirror.conf file in the <User> and <Password> tags of the <RemoteServer> section.

  4. Mirror using the configuration file you created in Step 1 to Step 3.

    Only software assigned to the newly registered device is available for mirroring.

    For more information, see Section 25.3.4, Testing and Performing the Mirroring Operation by Using zlmmirror.