Novell® ZENworks® Linux Management lets you connect to a remote server and copy software catalogs, bundles, or packages (including Dell Updated Packages) from the remote server to your server using a few simple commands.
Depending on your needs, you might have more than one ZENworks Management Zone in your system. The information in this section helps you mirror content across Management Zones or from remote servers. For information about replicating content from a ZENworks primary server to ZENworks secondary servers in a particular Management Zone, see Section 21.0, Replicating Content in the ZENworks Management Zone.
You can mirror software using the zlmmirror command line application. Software can be mirrored from the following servers:
ZENworks Linux Management (from the servers in one ZENworks Management Zone to another Management Zone)
Dell Update Packages (DUPs)
YaST Online Updates
Red Hat Network
Red Carpet Enterprise or ZENworks 6.6. x Linux Management
NOTE:To mirror from a ZENworks 6.6. x Linux Management server to a ZENworks 7 Linux Management server, the 6.6. x server must also be a YaST Online Update (YOU) server.
Novell, Dell, SUSE®, and Red Hat each maintain servers of their respective types, enabling you to simply mirror the catalogs and bundles you are interested in without needing to maintain or update these repositories.
Mirroring is the preferred method of obtaining the majority of the software you distribute to managed devices.
The following sections contain additional information: