Variables

You can specify variables to be used in installing the software package.

For more information, click the documentation link at the end of this topic to access the ZENworks® for Servers (ZfS) documentation on the Web. Then under the Policy and Distribution Services heading, click Appendixes > Variables > Using Variables to Control File Extraction.

Name
Enter the variable's name. The name can be derived from the following variable types:

Predefined
User-defined
Native environment
Java* environment

Value
Enter a valid value that you want this variable to resolve to.

Variables allow you to use a similar path for dissimilar platforms by specifying a variable for the part of the path that is different for each platform.

For example, the following table displays possible values for a user-defined variable named %Root_Location%:

Platform Possible Variable Values
NetWare® SYS:\
DATA:\
Windows* 2000 C:\
C$
Windows NT* CRoot$

The value can also be another variable name. You can nest variables by using variable names as values.



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