Environment
Novell ZENworks Configuration Management 11.3
Situation
Creating folders under Bundles/ZPM/Policy breaks patch policies
ERROR (from services-messages.log):
[TRACE] [07/02/2015 14:24:05.707] [15301] [ZENService] [100] [] [PatchManagement] [] [Failed call to getPatchPolices] [] [] [] [ZENServer]
[TRACE] [07/02/2015 14:24:05.708] [15301] [ZENService] [100] [] [PatchManagement] []
[java.lang.ClassCastException: com.novell.zenworks.datamodel.objects.folders.Folder cannot be cast to com.novell.zenworks.datamodel.objects.bundles.Bundle
at com.patchlink.sapphire.datamodel.common.BundleTools.getBundleWithID(BundleTools.java:1002)
Resolution
Do not create Folders or in any way modify Bundles/ZPM/Policy folder. This is for internal use only.