ZENworks newbie

Hi Everyone -
My organization is expanding the scope of software configuration management to encompass release and integration management. This means that we will be growing from strictly a software CM group to a more hardware and software related function. To do our SCM we have a varied infrastructure, from Windows 2000/2003 to Solaris (8 at current, moving to Solaris 10 in 2010), AIX, Linux, and even legacy mainframe systems. I'm trying to find the best tool for this new role, and ZENworks sounds promising but can it handle asset discovery and inventory? Does it work with a mixed server environment such as ours? We would like a dashboard type of display mechanism, something web based preferably. Can someone point me to resources that compare ZENworks to other tools in the IT asset management space? Sorry for the newbie question but I'm just looking for a better understanding of ZEN and an avenue in which to pitch it to my management.
Thanks!

Do you currently own ZENworks?
The reason that I ask is that there are two products.
"Asset Inventory" and "Asset Management".
"Asset Inventory" is included Free with ZENworks.
"Asset Managment" can be a stand-alone or upgrade component of ZENworks that
contains additional features.
"jaydawg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> Hi Everyone -
>
> My organization is expanding the scope of software configuration
> management to encompass release and integration management. This means
> that we will be growing from strictly a software CM group to a more
> hardware and software related function. To do our SCM we have a varied
> infrastructure, from Windows 2000/2003 to Solaris (8 at current, moving
> to Solaris 10 in 2010), AIX, Linux, and even legacy mainframe systems.
> I'm trying to find the best tool for this new role, and ZENworks sounds
> promising but can it handle asset discovery and inventory? Does it work
> with a mixed server environment such as ours? We would like a dashboard
> type of display mechanism, something web based preferably. Can someone
> point me to resources that compare ZENworks to other tools in the IT
> asset management space? Sorry for the newbie question but I'm just
> looking for a better understanding of ZEN and an avenue in which to
> pitch it to my management.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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Hello,
I'm a newbie to ZENworks 6.5 and wanted to know how to remove delivered
applications via ZENworks, if possible. I've managed to deliver apps via
an application object and successfully install them. I also know that
it's possible to manually remove them from each workstation via remote
control, or at the local machine. My question is; is there a way to
remove an app remotely (w/o remote control) by simply unchecking a check
box which will retract the application, or by creating a policy that
will remove it?
Thanks in Advance
-Joe

I tried that, but didn't work. Once unassociated, my app disappared from
the App Explorer and had to manually uninstall it from the workstation.
Do I have to create a workstation package with it as well?
Thanks in Advance,
Joe Rizo
Marcus Breiden wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:58:02 GMT, Joe Rizo wrote:
>
>> My question is; is there a way to
>> remove an app remotely (w/o remote control) by simply unchecking a check
>> box which will retract the application,
>
> you can enable uninstall in every app, to make this work you also need to
> configure uninstall in the application launcher configuration which is on
> every container or user/wks object.
>
> when you than deassociate the object the app will deinstall

Can you 'lock out' a workstation via ZENworks?

Hi,
I was wondering if there was a way to 'lock out' a workstation via
ZENworks so users can no longer log into the workstation temporarily.
This is the scenario - when someone within our company orders a new
workstation, they will many times tell us that the workstation is being
replaced when in reality the old workstation it is replacing is never
taken off the network.
The problem? - we do not charge any new license fees for replacement
workstations PROVIDING the old workstation is disposed of (that way we
are able to transfer the licenses from the old to the new). If the old
workstation is still used, we are in violation of license fees.
Solution? - 'lock out' the old workstation so no one can use it any
longer unless they call our Helpdesk and it is 'unlocked' at which time
we remind them of the license charges.
I am not sure how this can be performed. We currently do something
similar with NEW XP PCs that have no local user accounts on them yet
(basically we enable login restrictions under the DLU policy - if the
workstation can't create a local user account for the user, they can't
log into the network or the PC). That solution would not work in this
case though since the local accounts would already be created on the PC.
We don't want to remove any software from the machine that will need to
be reinstalled in case the site does want to keep the machine on the
network after a new one is purchased. The solution should be designed to
easily enable the machine if the site does decide they want to keep the
machine on the network. Later on we would FDISK the PC for disposal.
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Perhaps a Workstation Associated app that just pushed an invalid value for the
GINA.DLL
Either Remote Regedit or another Force-Run app could restore this to a correct
value.
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Marcus Breiden wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2005 19:05:23 GMT, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > I am not sure how this can be performed. We currently do something
> > similar with NEW XP PCs that have no local user accounts on them yet
> > (basically we enable login restrictions under the DLU policy - if the
> > workstation can't create a local user account for the user, they can't
> > log into the network or the PC). That solution would not work in this
> > case though since the local accounts would already be created on the PC.
>
> hmmm.... I would create an application and associate it to the wks, make it
> force run..
>
> in that app remove / or change the Tree for the workstation manager... this
> will disable all policy management (also DLU)...
>
> in case your accounts are locally on that box you would have to do some
> more stuff to get around your problem...
> --
>
> Marcus Breiden
>
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Hi, all
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http://www.huihoo.com/jboss/online_manual/3.0/
I am working on the 'interest' example in the first chapter.
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ant intro-interest-jar
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validate-servlet:
validate-jboss:
fail_if_not_valid:
init:
[echo] Using JBoss directory=/opt/jboss
[echo] Using base classpath=/opt/jboss/client/jboss-j2ee.jar:/opt/jboss/client/jaas.jar:/opt/jboss/client/jbosssx-client.jar:/opt/jboss/client/jboss-client.jar:/opt/jboss/client/jnp-client.jar:/home/xiaobo/learningejb/examples/COULD_NOT_FIND_SERVLET_JAR
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[echo] Using Build directory=/home/xiaobo/learningejb/examples/build-examples
intro-interest-jar:
compile:
ejb-jar:
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[copy] Copying 1 file to /home/xiaobo/learningejb/examples/build-examples/interest/META-INF
[copy] Copying 1 file to /home/xiaobo/learningejb/examples/build-examples/interest/META-INF
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BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2 seconds
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2005-11-28 17:31:03,536 DEBUG [org.jboss.management.j2ee.LocalJBossServerDomain] handleNotification: javax.management.Notification[source=jboss.ejb:service=EJBDeployer,type=org.jboss.deployment.SubDeployer.stop,sequenceNumber=15,timeStamp=1133213463536,message=null,userData=org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@c36a9f52 { url=file:/opt/jboss-3.2.5/server/default/deploy/interest.jar }
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status: Deployment FAILED reason: ejb-jar.xml must define a valid DOCTYPE!
state: FAILED
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lastModified: 1133210324000
mbeans:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/ejb-jar_2_0.dtd">
<ejb-jar>
<description>JBoss Interest Sample Application</description>
<display-name>Interest EJB</display-name>
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<session>
<ejb-name>Interest</ejb-name>
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<remote>org.jboss.docs.interest.Interest</remote>
<ejb-class>org.jboss.docs.interest.InterestBean</ejb-class>
<session-type>Stateless</session-type>
<transaction-type>Bean</transaction-type>
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I've have a NAS on my home network. I can see it and access it just fine. I have Firefox set to ask me where I want something downloaded. I don't get the option of putting, say a PDF in a folder on my network storage device.
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im an I.T student in Adamson University here in the philippines i went here to ask help about our activity in school about java. our professor told us to make a program in java (btw were using netbeans) that will ask the user his birth year and then the output will tell the zodiac sign of the year entered. she told us (our prof) to make it using showInputDialog. and then to show the output we must use the JOptionPane.showMessageDialog.
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as you wish heres what i did. this is not a gui version
* To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
package marlonestipona;
* @author ESTIPONA
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
int yr1;
String tgr ="Tiger";
String dog ="Dog";
String rbt ="Rabbit";
String ox ="Ox";
String drgn ="Dragon";
String rat ="Rat";
String pig ="Pig";
String rst ="Rooster";
String hrs ="Horse";
String shp ="Sheep";
String mky ="Monkey";
String snk ="Snake";
System.out.print("Enter your birth year: ");
yr1=input.nextInt();
if (yr1==1974 || yr1==1986 || yr1==1998)
System.out.printf("Your zodiac sign is %s!\n",tgr);
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System.out.printf("Your zodiac sign is %s!\n",rbt);
}else if (yr1==1973 || yr1==1985 || yr1==1997){
System.out.printf("Your zodiac sign is %s!\n",ox);
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System.out.printf("Your zodiac sign is %s!\n",rst);
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System.out.printf("Your zodiac sign is %s!\n",hrs);
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System.out.printf("Your zodiac sign is %s!\n",shp);
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Hello all,
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Please let me know if I'm missing something that will help ensure this setup works as perfectly as possible on any system.
+to help make sure this works, try using all the names i've used below (besides perhaps user names & passwords); like "server.house"+
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• dhcp server ends at = 10.0.2.99
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• port forward to 10.0.2.2 = ard (tcp: 5900, 5988; udp/tcp: 3283)
*2) Install/Setup Server*
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• choose "Standard Installation"
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user name: Administrator
short name: admin
password: admin
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manual ip address = 10.0.2.2
subnet mask = 255.255.255.0
router = 10.0.2.1
dns server = 10.0.2.2
search domain = house
• primary dns server = server.house
• server name = server
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Good, now:
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• Run software update until all updates are installed (may require several restarts)
• Setup a dyndns account for your server, install dyndns software (make sure it's updating via web and the ip address doesn't start with 10.x)
*3) Setup Server Preferences*
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• go to vpn: turn on vpn
shared secret = somethingsecretive
ip address range = 10.0.2.101 - 10.0.2.199
• go to users
• make new user(s) with all options enabled
+you should now have all services in server preferences enabled (if not, enable them) and user names setup; for good measure, restart the computer again+
*4) Setup Client Computers*
+make sure client computers have all software updates installed before proceeding+
• Open system preferences: network
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• Set TCP/IP to DHCP
• DNS Server = 10.0.2.2
• Search domain = house
• Click apply
It's probably a good time to double check that the internet works - open Safari and google something. Good, it works.
There are two ways to setup the client computers to connect to the server with basically no manual configuration needed:
First way:
Go to system preferences: accounts: select user name to associate with server: select "server account" (if available): enter appropriate info for user on server: wait a bit: restart computer
or (if "server account" isn't available):
Second way:
Open finder: applications: utilities: directory utility. once opened, it should automatically find your server. if it doesn't, click the lock, click "plus sign", type = "open directory", server name = server.house, click ok
• enter appropriate info to connect to server and ensure it's set to automatically setup all services, once finished - restart.
*5) If the automatic setup didn't work, here's how to manually setup the client workstations:*
Safari
• Open Safari and type "server.house" in the address bar, enter user/pass, make sure it connects to wiki.
iChat
• add new jabber account
• jabber id = [email protected]
• server = server.house
• port = 5222
• kerbos = on (you can leave off if you want)
You can test by connecting to your Jabber account
VPN
• open Network in system preferences
• click lock
• click "plus sign"
• interface = VPN
• vpn type = L2TP over IPSec
• service name = server
• server address = your dyndns address
• click advanced
• dns server = 10.0.2.2
• search domain = house
• click ok
• click authentication
• enter user's server password
• enter "somethingsecretive" in "shared secret"
• click ok - click apply
You can test by clicking "connect" - after verified, disconnect.
_File sharing_
• Open finder: click "Server" under "Shared"
• If it connects as guest, click "connect as"
• enter your server username/password
Drag a file to and from a folder to make sure file sharing works
Mail
• Add new mail account (imap)
• Incoming mail server = server.house
• Outgoing mail server = server.house
• Outgoing authentication = kerberos 5 (or password)
• user name = [email protected]
• enter password
Check to make sure you get the server welcome e-mail and that you can send email to other users on the server.
*Time Machine* (very problematic at this time)
• Open Time Machine in System Preferences
• Click "options"
• Eliminate as many folders as possible to keep backup times shorter; click done
• Click "change disk"
• Select "Server" disk; click "use for backup"
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*If you have PCs on your network that you want to be able to connect to the server for file sharing*
• Open Windows Explorer (my computer)
• Click tools: map network drive
• Enter "\\server\public" (or if you setup a user account on the server for the pc user(s) i think you can use "\\server\pcusername" - and follow the next two steps)
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Helpful info for newbies setting up server 10.5:
• Apple's Server Resources page with all manuals
• Probably the most helpful newbie setup discussion
• Probably the most helpful newbie setup discussion #2
• Discussion about DNS
• "Time Machine is a dog... discussion"
• Manage Central Address Book discussion
• Leopard to Windows Files Sharing Issues discussion
• Lynda's 10.5 Server Training Videos (this does cost money and I haven't personally used it, but it looks very helpful)
I hope that's a good start for people, but I'm sure some setting(s) can be tweaked or I missed something that could make this process go even more smoothly. Lets make this the definitive newbie standard installation setup tutorial.
-Brian
corewerkz

Hi gikku,
Good idea! I forgot about the web server port forwarding, that will allow the wiki to be seen over the internet.
One question: what does adding the dyndns address to "Server Admin > web > settings > sites" actually do? I'm not too knowledgeable about Server Admin.
Thanks,
Brian
corewerkz

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calling the procedure in
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hi master
please guid me where you define that procedure i need that
please guid me event name or sample code
thanking you

Binding to Active Directory Problem. I am a Newb! probably something stupid

Hey All,
Trying to get my apple xsever to join our windows domain. I got it to bind and the user accounts show up on the machine but then it askes me to join it to the Active Directory Kerberos realm. I am confused.
what i am trying to do is joint it to the windows domain for my admin account on the actual server and then set up local user accounts on the machine so when my mac users log in they authenticate using the local mac account and not the windows domain account. Does this make sense? From what i read macs authenticate using the local account before going to the windows account which is what i want. I am a total newb to this so forgive me for the stupid questions.
cheers all,
jess

Hi
set up the xserve as an Open directory Master
will it place nice on the network
with the rest of the windows servers that we have.
There should be no problem in doing this. All you need to do is decide whether you want your Mac Server to run its own DNS Service or to use the existing DNS service being provided by the AD Server. Open Directory Master requires DNS Services running somewhere.
i just want to have a mac studio of about 35 people be
kind of an island within a sea of windows users. If
there can be cross over there then fine.. but really
i want the mac to work well with the apple server and
if i can get the windows clients hooked up also then
fine.
There should be no problem with this.
When you say studio do you mean a graphics design studio? Or are you talking about a video production studio? If the answer is yes to either one or both then perhaps a simple file server would do. An Open Directory Master is OK in this environment but your network needs to be up to job. Ideally gigabit ethernet certainly for video production and also if your studio are heavy photoshop users. You could get away with 100Base-T but with 35 heavy users editing files stored on the server as well as Home folders it may be a bit too much. If this is the situation in your studio you would be better placed working locally and saving the files back to the server at the end of the day. You would set up your users with names and passwords in the OD directory node. Your studio can use those account details to log on to the server to access share points but still work locally if they need to. If you start windows services on the mac server then there should be no reason for windows clients to access share points on the mac server as well. Be careful how you configure windows services as you already have existing PC servers on the network.
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Mac pro 2.66, 2 new seagate drives raid 0, newbie, not sure if a problem...

Hi,
I'm a relative newbie--just got a mac pro 2.66 and added two additional seagate sata 7200.10 500 gig drives that I striped together using disk utility and set at 0. My intention? to do video and animation editing and use the additional satas to read/write my data on, as I create it (I'm planning on doing routine backups to DVD's)
My potential problem: Just to test it, I put a couple of word docs that I'm updating/writing on it. If I don't type for a while (say 15 minutes), when I do type and save, it takes a a while (maybe 30 seconds and yes, get a rolling ball) to save. After that, saving is instant. Is there a sleep issue with this? There are no systems on the striped satas. I'm using 10.47, btw.
Anybody know why? are my disks just bad? aside from the initial save problems, they're fine.
mac pro 2.66 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I would hope it is not a firmware issue with Seagate. There have been some, and make sure your drives are set to NEVER spin-down in Energy control panel (system preferences).
That is 1TB almost of storage - to backup - and as one huge volume. It is possible to first partition the drives, then stripe like to like partitions into RAID also (if you wanted to be able to erase a volume, or keep some files separate, not everyone does).
It can also help to zero a drive first, or make sure that the drive is suitable for RAID (seems most but not all are). There have been reports here, or on Barefeats, as well as on http://www.xlr8yourmac.com about drive issues. OWC is now updating the firmware on some Seagate model drives.

Newbie questions: 'extracting' values from a single column. Is it possible?

Hello everybody,
I'm a pretty newbie user of BI 11. I would like to know if it's possibile to aggregate values by filtering different values in a same column. As my English is quite bad, let me summarize my problem with an example:
Column A - Number of Recevived Calls -- Column B Caller's Satisfaction Rating
A: 12 - B: Good
A: 25 - B: Average
A: 100 - B: Perfect
A: 35 - B: Not good enough
I would like to be able to do some math with single scores as, for instance, to group together good, average and perfect scores and remove the not good enough scores, or, another example, I'd like to calculate the percentage of GOOD ratings on the total number of calls.
Anyone can help me? I'm a simple user of the BI frontend, so I don't have access to the underlying database structure.
Sorry for any mistake I made in my English writing and Thanks a lot in advance.

I assume Column A is a measure. In the edit formula for this column, highlight the column and filter it based on column B. For example you might to filter all the calls for 'Good' then you may divide it by total no of calls or something similar. It might look something like this -- Filter(table.column A USING (table.Column B = 'Good'))/Sum(table.columA)
you might want to use a combination of case statements as well depending on what you want to achieve.
for example -- case when table.column B='GOOD' then sum(table.column A) else (sum(table.column A)/(case when table.column B='BAD' then sum(table.column A) end))end
Give it a try, hope this helps.

Hi newbie here . .

Hi everyone
(Sorry if this post is in the wrong thread but am just getting sorted).
Newbie here and having just swapped from a Windows machine to my mac I am finding a problem with itunes.
Please in words of one syllable . . could some one please say if using the "Open Stream" in advanced icon will allow me to connect to BBC local radio?
If so, please could they say how?
Ta
ibook

Hi Macadam_ace,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
Do they have their show on the internet? The iTunes Help document says,
"If you know the Internet address (URL) of an MP3 streaming broadcast, you can connect to it using iTunes.
Choose Advanced > Open Stream.
Enter the full URL of the file you want to listen to. For example, http://www.apple.com/itunes/sample.mp3."
I hope that helps,
Jon
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Mac Mini Newbie + Viewsonic VX2450WM monitor. Need HDMI to DVI adapter? What cords needed?

Mac Mini Newbie here.
Getting the Viewsonic VX2450WM monitor for it. There is no HDMI on this monitor, but reviews said it's Mac mini compatible.
Do I need to get an additional cord? HDMI to DVI adapter cable? Does the supplied short white cord inside Mac Mini packaging suffice?
Thank you!
Art

No, the HDMI on Mini only support digital VGA is analogue
Can the HDMI port drive analog displays (VGA displays for example) using adapters?
No. The HDMI port will drive digital connections—such as DVI—using the adapter that came with the Mac mini, but cannot be used for analog displays such as VGA. You can purchase a Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter separately to drive analog displays.
The above is from
Mac mini (Mid 2010) and later: Frequently asked questions about HDMI
SKDiver wrote:
It doesn't. I think we need an HDMI to VGA adapter. I'm not sure and waiting for help!
Earlier Minis did not have HDMI port

My app store is not working after installing mavericks. When I open app store it repeatedly asking me to login with apple ID and to provide User name and Password for proxy authentication in a loop.I am a newbie to mac,Please help me.

My app store is not working after installing mavericks. When I open app store it repeatedly asking me to login with apple ID and to provide User name and Password for proxy authentication in a loop.I am a newbie to mac,Please help me.

Hmmmm... would appear that you need to be actually logged in to enable the additional menu features.
Have you tried deletting the plists for MAS?
This page might help you out...
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/answers/how_to_identify_and_fix_problems_with_the _mac_app_store
Failing that, I will have to throw this back to the forum to see if anyone else can advise further.
Let me know how you get on?
Thanks.

ZENworks newbie

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