11.0 Managing ZENworks Configuration Management

ZENworks Configuration Management provides numerous possibilities and paths to manage Linux devices. Areas like patch management, configuration management, and remote management can be administered in various different ways. In practice, the number of possibilities often leads to inefficient or inoperational management strategies.

In this section, Novell Consulting demonstrates how to design and administer the ZENworks Configuration Management framework to perform recurring operations required in enterprise environments, such as provisioning different patch levels, managing different staging areas, and assigning patches or configuration items to multiple devices.

In addition, we discuss topics like unique naming standards, specific configuration bundles for Open Enterprise Server (OES) 11 devices, and administration of the ZENworks Configuration Management agent on Linux.