63.3 Image-Safe Data Viewer and Editor (Zisview and Zisedit)

After booting a workstation from an imaging boot medium (PXE, CD, DVD, or ZENworks partition), you can enter zisedit or zisview at the Linux bash prompt to edit and view the image-safe data for that workstation.

IMPORTANT:Image-safe data is not supported on Linux workstations.

NOTE:You can also use the ZENworks Imaging Windows Agent (ziswin.exe) to view and edit a workstation’s image-safe data. The ZENworks Imaging Windows Agent combines the capabilities of the Image-Safe Data Viewer (zisview) to let you view a workstation’s image-safe data and the Image-Safe Data Editor (zisedit) to let you edit this data. For more information, see Section 63.2, ZENworks Imaging Windows Agent (Ziswin.exe).

63.3.1 Information Displayed by the Image-Safe Data Viewer

After booting a workstation from an imaging device, you can enter zisview at the Linux bash prompt to view the image-safe data for that workstation.

The image-safe data viewer (zisview) displays the following information about the workstation

Table 63-3 Zisview Information

Category

Information

Image-safe Data

  • Version: The version number of the ZENworks Imaging Windows Agent (ziswin).

  • Just Imaged Flag: If this is set to False, the ZENworks Imaging Windows Agent (ziswin.exe) reads data from the Windows registry and writes it to the image-safe data store. If this is set to True, the ZENworks Imaging Windows Agent reads data from the image-safe data store and writes it to the Windows registry.

  • Last Base Image: The last base image that was restored to the workstation.

  • Last Base Image Time: The time stamp of the last base image that was restored to the workstation.

  • Last Base Image Size: The size of the last base image that was restored to the workstation.

  • Scripted Image Flag: If this option is set to True, the last imaging operation was a scripted image. If this option is set to False, the last imaging operation was not a scripted image.

  • Script Checksum: Displays the checksum value representing the last script run. The ZENworks Imaging Engine uses the checksum to prevent the same script from re-running on the workstation unless you specify in ConsoleOne that you want to rerun the same script.

Workstation Identity Information

  • Workstation Tree: The eDirectory tree that contains the Workstation object for this workstation.

  • Workstation Object: The distinguished name of this computer’s workstation.

  • Workstation ID: The workstation identification number.

  • Win 9x Computer Name: The computer name for the workstation. This is only used for changing the computer name of Windows 9.x workstations. To change the computer name of Windows 2000 or XP workstations, use DNS Hostname.

  • Windows Workgroup: The Microsoft network workgroup of the workstation.

  • Windows SID: The Windows Security ID of the workstation, which is a unique number that identifies this workstation in Windows.

Network Information

  • DHCP: Displays whether this workstation uses DHCP to obtain its IP address.

  • IP Address: Displays the static IP address that this workstation uses.

  • Subnet Mask: Displays the subnet mask that this workstation uses.

  • Gateway: Displays the gateway that this workstation uses.

  • DNS Servers: The number of DNS name servers used for DNS name resolution.

  • DNS Suffix: The DNS context of the workstation.

  • DNS Hostname: The DNS local hostname of the workstation. This is also used for changing the computer name of Windows 2000 or XP workstations.

63.3.2 Image-Safe Data Viewer

To use zisview, enter any of the following commands at the Linux bash prompt:

Table 63-4 Zisview Bash Commands

Command

Explanation

zisview

Displays all image-safe data.

zisview -z field

Displays information about a specific field or fields. field is one or more field names separated by a space. field is not case-sensitive.

All of the following are valid field names. The corresponding minimum names that can also be entered on the command line follow each field name in parenthesis.

  • JustImaged (J)
  • ScriptedImage (SC)
  • LastBaseImage (L)
  • Tree (T)
  • ObjectDN (ObjectDN)
  • NetBIOSName (N)
  • WorkGroup (WorkG)
  • SID (SI)
  • WorkstationID (Works)
  • DHCP (DH)
  • IP (I)
  • Gateway (Gateway)
  • Mask (M)
  • DNSServerCount (DNSServerC)
  • DNSServer (DNSServer)
  • DNSSuffix (DNSSu)
  • DNSHostName (DNSH)

zisview -s

Creates a script that can be used to generate environment variables that contain all of the image-safe data fields.

zisview -h

Displays help for zisview.

63.3.3 Image-Safe Data Editor

After booting a workstation from an imaging device, you can enter zisedit at the Linux bash prompt to change, clear, or remove information the image-safe data for that workstation.

To use zisedit, enter any of the following commands at the Linux bash prompt:

Table 63-5 Zisedit Bash Commands

Command

Explanation

zisedit

Displays a screen showing all of the image-safe data fields. You can add or change any of the information in the fields.

zisedit field=new_information

You can change the information for one field using this syntax, where field is any valid field name and new_information is the information you want this field to contain. field is not case sensitive.

For example, enter zisedit Mask=255.255.252.0 to enter this information in the Subnet Mask field.

All of the following are valid field names. The corresponding minimum names that can also be entered on the command line are shown in parenthesis after each field name.

  • JustImaged (J)
  • ScriptedImage (SC)
  • LastBaseImage (L)
  • Tree (T)
  • ObjectDN (ObjectDN)
  • NetBIOSName (N)
  • WorkGroup (WorkG)
  • SID (SI)
  • WorkstationID (Works)
  • DHCP (DH)
  • IP (I)
  • Gateway (Gateway)
  • Mask (M)
  • DNSServerCount (DNSServerC)
  • DNSServer1 (DNSServer1)
  • DNSSuffix (DNSSu)
  • DNSHostName (DNSH)
  • PXEWorkRevision (PXEWorkR)
  • PXEWorkObject (PXEWorkO)
  • PXETaskID (PXETaskI)
  • PXETaskState (PXETaskS)
  • PXETaskRetCode (PXETaskR)

zisedit -c

Clears all image-safe data fields.

zisedit -r

Removes the image-safe data store.

zisedit -h

Displays help for zisedit.