Novell ZENworks Orchestrator

Overview

Novell ZENworks Orchestrator is the brain behind data center systems management. Orchestrator automates operations so IT tasks are done consistently and according to policy every time. As a result, you're not in fire-drill mode, working on repetitive, labor-intensive tasks. Orchestrator keeps your resources, both physical and virtual, working together and focused on your business priorities.

Agent-based Discovery and Multicast Execution

• Gives you an accurate view of your resources and their workloads
• Provides scheduling to automate systems-management tasks
• Distributes workloads across multiple devices so you get maximum performance from your available resources

Account and Audit Reporting

• Delivers an accurate view and accounting of how your resources are utilized
• Manages the billing-out process according to resource utilization
• Features auditing and event logging for all jobs and provisioning

Extensible Job Definition

• Provides ultimate flexibility for job and task definition
• Supports both Python and XML-based job definitions

Heuristic Learning

• Pre-positions workloads based on history
• Distributes tasks to resources with optimal configurations to perform the work

Policy-based Task Management

• Reserves resources to ensure you have the computing power available to meet service level needs
• Allows you to automatically preempt lower priority tasks for critical tasks
• Supports scheduled and event-driven tasks