After you have completed gathering data to use when building the design of the infrastructure, you can then develop a high-level design. It is important at this point to understand what the infrastructure is going to look like, so documenting your high-level thoughts and plans is critical to the success of the project.
Developing a high-level design consists of building two main outputs:
Assessment document: A high-level design document outlines the general placement of services across the company's infrastructure. This document does not need to identify servers to be utilized or deployed to host the specific ZENworks services. The document should simply outline the services themselves, and where they will reside across the network. Your high-level design should include the following information:
Number of ZENworks Management Zones needed
Placement of Primary Servers
Placement of Satellite devices
Placement of the Database Servers
Services that run at each location, based on the requirements gathered during the business assessment.
Configuration of network services, such as DNS (forward/reverse lookup), DHCP, and so forth
Utilization of network infrastructure, such as L4 switches to front the Primary Servers, Satellite devices, or both
Remote access capabilities
High-level graphical design diagram: As a supplement to the assessment document, you should also develop a graphical representation of the infrastructure. This diagram should reflect exactly what you have described in the document, and it should be at a high enough level so that everyone can see what the infrastructure is going to look like after the ZENworks Configuration Management deployment is complete.