ZENworks® 7 Desktop Management
Features and Benefits
Novell® ZENworks® Desktop Management reduces costs and eliminates IT effort through unique Policy-driven Automation, which enables administrators to automatically and transparently configure, deploy, update, heal and migrate desktops from wherever they are—without having to visit each workstation. As a result, users are more productive, and administrators can centrally create and maintain a secure and stable IT environment to minimize risk and reduce vulnerabilities. Novell ZENworks Desktop Management uses Policy-Driven Automation to automatically maintain and enforce policies and dynamically manage and maintain resources based on user and device identities.
ZENworks Desktop Management keeps costs under control by automating the setup, updating, healing and migration of desktop devices and the services they run. This reduces the total cost of ownership of each device by managing the life cycle of your computing equipment—from initial setup and configuration to end-of-life. IDC research shows that ZENworks pays for itself in as little as three months and cuts user downtime by an average of 73%. It reduces desktop TCO by improving enterprise-wide resource efficiency increasing IT staff efficiency by 42% and increasing IT management staff productivity by 45%.
ZENworks Desktop Management includes ZENworks Patch Management1, a powerful, automated cross-platform patch management solution. With full support for patches for Novell NetWare and Microsoft Windows, administrators can quickly determine what patches are right for their organization and automatically apply them across their enterprise. Applicable target selection and flexible scheduling options ensure that the right devices receive the right patches when they need them. ZENworks Patch Management leverages a robust agent-based architecture that securely ensures all chosen systems are protected, even remote users. Dynamic graphical reports let administrators determine missing patches and see what devices are in compliance, facilitating vulnerability assessment and ongoing security compliance.
Benefits
- Quantifiable ROI
- Complete lifecycle management
- Remote workstation management
- Automated deployment and maintenance
- Support for heterogeneous networks
- Reduced TCO
Features
KEY: x = Yes x = New/Improved| Feature | ZENworks 6.5 Desktop Management | ZENworks 7 Desktop Management |
| Policy-Driven Automation | x | x |
| Common Install | x | x |
| NetWare / Novell Open Enterprise Server Cluster safe | x | |
| Agent-based management | x | x |
| Dedicated ZENworks directory | x | x |
| eDirectory and Active Directory support | x | x |
| Firewall friendly | x | x |
| Application Management | ||
| Delivery of application by users | x | x |
| Delivery of applications by workstations | x | x |
| Citrix MetaFrame XP support | x | x |
| Rogue process termination | x | x |
| Agent Deployment Wizard | x | x |
| Application chaining | x | x |
| Checkpoint restart | x | x |
| Detailed and/or system requirements | x | x |
| Append/prepend Registry values | x | x |
| Language variables | x | x |
| Uninstall scripts | x | x |
| Mobile user management | x | x |
| Detect most efficient Middle-tier | x | x |
| Web-based application delivery | x | x |
| "Lights out" distribution | x | x |
| E-mail and dotted name support | x | x |
| Self-healing | x | x |
| Remote Management | ||
| Secure Remote Management | x | x |
| Remote diagnostics | x | x |
| Track user login-logout | x | x |
| Wake on LAN | x | x |
| Novell Messenger | x | |
| File transfer | x | x |
| Software Packaging | ||
| MSI package customization | x | x |
| MSI packaging consistency support-MSI ICE | x | x |
| Industry-standard Windows packaging | x | x |
| MSI Pre-install to workstation | x | x |
| Advanced MSI support | x | x |
| Imaging | ||
| Compression on disk | x | x |
| Compression over the wire | x | x |
| Peer-to-peer multicast | x | x |
| Client/Server multicast | x | x |
| Image from FDD, HDD, CD-ROM | x | x |
| PXE boot support | x | x |
| Split images across CD or DVD | x | x |
| Asset Management | ||
| Increased Inventory accuracy | x | |
| Pre-built reports | x | |
| Web-based reporting | x | |
| Integration with ZENworks Asset Management ² | x | |
| Reporting and Querying | x | x |
| Hardware inventory | x | x |
| Software inventory | x | x |
| Inventory History reporting | x | |
| Inventory Change Alerting | x | |
| Passive Network discovery | x | |
| Extensible and Customizable Inventory | x | |
| Data integration with other systems1 | x | |
| Patch Management | ||
| Automated patch management | x | x |
| Windows patches2 | x | x |
| NetWare patches3 | x | x |
| Macintosh patches3 | x | x |
| Solaris patches3 | x | x |
| AIX patches3 | x | x |
| HP-UX patches3 | x | x |
| Citrix, Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, Novell Client32 and more | x | x |
| Flexible scheduling options | x | x |
| Vulnerability assessment | x | x |
| Detailed patch information | x | x |
| Applicable target selection | x | x |
| Patch compliance reporting | x | x |
| Personality Migration | ||
| Wizard Interface | x | x |
| Template Editor | x | x |
| Real-time migration | x | x |
| Customized migration | x | x |
| Server OS Support | ||
| NetWare 6.5 | x | x |
| Novell Open Enterprise Server | x | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 | x | |
| Windows 2000 | x | x |
| Windows 2003 | x | x |
| Desktop OS Support | ||
| Windows 98 SE | x | x |
| Windows NT4 Workstation | x | x |
| Windows 2000 Professional | x | x |
| Windows XP Professional | x | x |
| Windows XP Professional SP2 | x | |
| Windows XP Tablet Edition | x | |
1ZENworks Asset Management provides an open database schema, allowing you to quickly integrate asset management information with many systems, including Remedy and other helpdesk solutions.
2 Patch Management includes server licenses and 90-day subscription for 100 devices for Windows patches. A yearly subscription is required beyond 90 days or for more devices. Click here for pricing.
3 Product sold separately. Click here for pricing.