Most administrative tasks can be performed from the Web interface. However, you might need to perform some actions from the zman command line interface.
When the root account executes zman, you are asked for the administrator user and password. This can be very cumbersome when performing multiple steps with zman. For convenience, you can configure a password file (.zmanrc) in the home directory of the root user by issuing the following command from a shell:
zman asc administrator
An encrypted /root/.zmanrc file is created. It should be made read-only by executing the following command:
chmod 600 /root/.zmanrc
Password-free execution of zman instructions can be tested by executing the following command:
zman ql -s F
This command displays all failed actions from the main queue of the ZENworks Configuration Management server.