ZENworks 6.5 Suite Administrator's Handbook [Paperback]

Brad Dayley (Author), Ron Tanner (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0789732041 | ISBN-13: 978-0789732040 | Publication Date: December 19, 2004

Novell ZENworks 6.5 is a comprehensive set of integrated tools that automate IT management and business processes across the lifecycle of desktops, laptops, servers and handhelds across diverse server and client platforms. The Novell ZENworks 6.5 Suite Administrator's Handbook is a solid reference guide to all the new features of ZENworks 6.5. It includes descriptions of all the ZENworks 6.5 components, as well as the new features from the merged products. Packed with detailed information on how to install, efficiently use and troubleshoot ZENworks 6.5 in an enterprise environment, Novell ZENworks 6.5 Suite Administrator's Handbook is sure to be the only guide you need to maximize your ZENworks 6.5 experience.

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About the Author

Brad Dayley is a software engineer in Novell's Nterprise Development Group. He has 12 years of experience installing, troubleshooting, and developing Novell's products. He co-developed an advanced debugging course used to train Novell's engineers and customers and is the co-author of Novell's Guide to Resolving Critical Server Issues as well as other Novell Press titles on the ZENworks suite. When he is not writing books or software, he can be found biking, hiking, and/or Jeeping somewhere in the remote regions of the Pacific Northwest with his wife, DaNae, and four sons.

Ron Tanner is currently a product manager for Novell ZENworks, defining the future of the product. Ron has been associated with ZENworks since its inception and led software development as Director of Engineering through the invention and first releases of ZENworks. He has 17 years of experience in developing software and leading engineering teams into exciting, cutting-edge technology. Prior to working at Novell, Ron worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories developing advanced networking systems. Ron has co-authored, with Brad Dayley, five other ZENworks Novell Press titles. If Ron has some free time he is often found with his wife, CheRee, cheering for their four children at football games, competitive cheering events, karate, and hula championships. Sometimes Ron sneaks away for some quiet time with a book.

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Preface

IT professionals are constantly asked to get more done with fewer resources. Our lives are often spent doing mundane tasks such as hauling mounds of CDs around so we can install applications on our user's computer, re-installing operating systems, or trying to figure out where are all of our assets. We could get on with the more strategic things that will make our companies better if we could just have a system that takes care of these operational tasks.

ZENworks is just such a solution. ZENworks will help you manage your systems through their entire lifecycles. With ZENworks the system will automatically track assets, deliver applications, keep your laptops, workstations, and servers up-to-date on the latest approved patches, and keep the user's data safe all through policies that tell the system how to behave and allow ZENworks to manage itself. ZENworks will even deliver images to those systems that need restoring or upgrading. ZENworks includes secure remote management capabilities to help you diagnose and control computers in your WAN or across the Internet.

ZENworks will deliver all of these features into your enterprise regardless of your preferred platform. ZENworks can function in a Windows only environment or mixed environments including Windows, NetWare, and Linux. All of the capabilities of ZENworks are delivered via a web server, allowing you to even support your users over the Internet.

This book is about installing and getting ZENworks working in your environment, from small to enterprise levels. We will try to point out all of the tips and gotchas to watch for to make your installation and deployment of ZENworks a success.

We thank you for purchasing this book and hope that it is useful to you.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1104 pages
• Publisher: Novell Press (December 19, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789732041
• ISBN-13: 978-0789732040
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.1 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,146,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Covers Everything, January 15, 2005

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ZENworks 6.5 Suite Administrator's Handbook (Paperback)

ZENworks (ZEN = Zero Effort Networks) Suite is a set of programs named to reflect the zero effort required by end users and the minimal effort necessary for administrators to manage the desktops on their systems. Since so little effort is required, it almost makes you wonder just why it takes a book of almost eleven hundred pages.

The answer is that the suite of products has become so complete and all encompassing that a large number of individual programs within the suite handle virtually all networking tasks. The suite covers three general classes of hardware: workstations, servers, and handheld devices, and the applications include not only networking but also software distribution and extensive network troubleshooting.

The size of the book is determined by the sheer amount of software included in this new suite. Each program, each function is described in detail as to function, what it is trying to do, and how to interpret the results.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lacking, February 6, 2006

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Bart Wallace - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ZENworks 6.5 Suite Administrator's Handbook (Paperback)

Let me first say I really like Zenworks and have since 1.0. What I don't like is a large book that just covers the basics as found in the help files. I was looking to this book to cover, in depth, details about Imaging and the Middle Tier server. While there are details covering Imaging, I don't see any additional information above and beyond the on-line documentation and the help files. As far as the Middle Tier server - don't bother. The authors didn't. There is a section on installing the server telling the user how to fill in the DNS name and such but no real substance. And that's it! There is NO section on how to use the Middle Tier services or why one would want to. All in all, if you want a book for your shelf, buy this one. If you want a book you can use - keep looking.