Novell Documentation: ZENworks for Servers 3.0.2

June 27, 2003

Updates were made to the following sections. The changes are explained below.

Policy and Distribution Services

The following changes were made in various sections in the guide:

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A general change throughout the guide.	The following note was changed in all locations where it appeared in the guide. The previous recommendation was to not refresh the Distributor more often than every three minutes. This has been corrected to every five minutes, and the processes involved were added to the notes to explain why five minutes is needed. IMPORTANT: We recommend the Distributor's Refresh schedule be daily, unless changes to Distributions warrant a more frequent refresh. However, do not refresh the Distributor more often than every five minutes. The following can need up to five minutes to complete their processes: Distribution building, eDirectory replication, and tree walking (when no Search policy is defined).

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A general change throughout the guide.

The following note was changed in all locations where it appeared in the guide. The previous recommendation was to not refresh the Distributor more often than every three minutes. This has been corrected to every five minutes, and the processes involved were added to the notes to explain why five minutes is needed.

IMPORTANT: We recommend the Distributor's Refresh schedule be daily, unless changes to Distributions warrant a more frequent refresh. However, do not refresh the Distributor more often than every five minutes. The following can need up to five minutes to complete their processes: Distribution building, eDirectory replication, and tree walking (when no Search policy is defined).

Tiered Electronic Distribution

The following changes were made in this section:

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Tiered Electronic Distribution	This whole section has been reorganized, causing many sections to be moved, some renamed, some incorporated within others, and some new sections added. This new organization should improve your ability to find information on TED.
Setting Subscribers' Extract Schedules	Rewrote this section. It had previously indicated that you could modify the schedules of multiple Subscriber objects using the Properties of Multiple Objects menu option, which cannot be done. The Schedule tab does not display when selecting multiple Subscriber objects.
Updating Subscriber Configurations	Added this new section that explains how a Subscriber server receives updates to its TED configuration file.
Understanding External Subscribers	Altered the External Subscriber graphic by removing the Parent Subscriber section, which was misleading. External Subscribers can receive Distributions either directly from a Distributor or via a parent Subscriber in the Distributor's distribution hierarchy. Also added information to the end of the following paragraph for clarification: The External Subscriber object's properties lists the Channels it can receive Distributions from. An External Subscriber cannot be a parent Subscriber itself, though if it has a parent Subscriber, both the External Subscriber's and parent Subscriber's objects must reside in the same tree. An External Subscriber can receive Distributions directly from a Distributor, without using a parent Subscriber, or it can receive Distributions via a parent Subscriber in the Distributor's distribution hierarchy.
Subscriber Software Configuration and Trusted Trees	This new section documents the issues related to trusted trees, which come into play when using External Subscriber objects.
External Subscriber, Multiple Distributors, and Multiple Trees	Added the parenthetical defining a trusted tree in the following paragraph: In this example, each tree has a Distributor. Server_4 receives its configuration information from Distributor_B (Server_3) in its trusted tree (the tree where the Subscriber's object resides, not the tree where its associated External Subscriber object resides; in this case, the trusted tree is Tree_B). Therefore, a TEDNODE.PROPERTIES file is not needed for Server_4.
Editing the TEDNODE.PROPERTIES File	The following paragraph was removed. This file is no longer contained on the CD, because with ZfS 3 it is installed on every server where the Subscriber software is installed. A sample of the TEDNODE.PROPERTIES file is located at the root of the ZENworks for Servers Companion CD or under the ZENWORKSFORSERVERS directory of the ZENworks 6 Companion 1 CD.
Editing the TEDNODE.PROPERTIES File	The first paragraph was reworded to correct the fact that the TEDNODE.PROPERTIES file is now installed on servers and no longer available on the CD.

Server Policies

The following changes were made in this section:

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Scheduling	Rearranged the contents in this section, and added steps in the Scheduling the TED Objects section for how to schedule each TED object (Distributor, Distribution, Channel, and Subscriber).
Understanding Scheduling in Policy and Distribution Services	Moved this section from the Tiered Electronic Distribution section.

Desktop Application Distribution

The following changes were made in this section:

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Requirements	Added the following bullet: For a Desktop Application Distribution that contains a large amount of registry setting information, you can receive a Java out of memory error when the Distribution is being extracted. To prevent this, edit the TED.NCF file on the Subscriber server and change the memory variable on the last line from 128 to 256. Then the Distribution should extract.

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Requirements

Added the following bullet:

For a Desktop Application Distribution that contains a large amount of registry setting information, you can receive a Java out of memory error when the Distribution is being extracted. To prevent this, edit the TED.NCF file on the Subscriber server and change the memory variable on the last line from 128 to 256. Then the Distribution should extract.

Security in Policy and Distribution Services

The following changes were made in this section:

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Important Points about Certificates	Added the following bullet to this section: ConsoleOne copies the certificate files to Subscriber servers. Therefore, the client software on the workstation running ConsoleOne must have access to the Subscriber servers' file systems. For Windows Subscriber servers, the Domain and Workgroup rights on the workstation must be set up to facilitate automatic certificate copying. Otherwise, a 1204a error will be given.

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Important Points about Certificates

Added the following bullet to this section:

ConsoleOne copies the certificate files to Subscriber servers. Therefore, the client software on the workstation running ConsoleOne must have access to the Subscriber servers' file systems. For Windows Subscriber servers, the Domain and Workgroup rights on the workstation must be set up to facilitate automatic certificate copying. Otherwise, a 1204a error will be given.