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How do I use ZEN to copy a file (Apps config file) to a certain location
in all my Win XP workstations
Thanks

> How do I use ZEN to copy a file (Apps config file) to a certain location
> in all my Win XP workstations
>
Create a simple app object and add the file under the "distribution" tab.
Note that you can use variables to resolve things like Windows dir
correctly on different OS versions.
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WebHelp Output files distribution and deployment regarding

Hi,
I am just starting to try, learn RH7 to generate WebHelp.
I successfully did a very simple and basic test project and
our developer displayed the topic help on pressing F1.
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If my staff had iPod Touches or an iPad, is there an app that could be used to distribute reports and the like directly to them without their "input"? Just trying to think forward as this technology moves forward.

chaznsc wrote:
Sparky, you made your point. Dont be offended that I dont take the first response, or that I perhaps think there is a solution out there neither of us know about.
I'm not offended at all, Dropbox wasn't my suggestion... but even that program does not allow you to move files onto somebody else's iPod.
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File distribution error

Hi,
I distributed some applications to my windows mobile 5 device, but after
the installation, my device receives the file over and over again.
The cab file is 100% ok. Why is this happening? From the logfile I can not
determine anything special.
regards,
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Desktop Application Distribution with Files in ZFS 6.5

I'm trying to do a Desktop Application Distribution with a simple NAL and
can not get the files associated with the NAL to copy to the subscriber
server. I am using ZFS 6.5 SP1. I am using a mapped drive letter in the NAL
and have chosen "Keep the same source paths for the replicated objects" in
the distribution. I also have defined a variable in the service location
package as 'drive letter'='volume name' and associated this policy with the
container that the distributor and subscriber are in. I checked the box in
the subscriber's variable property to use this policy. The documentation
also says to use a SOURCE_PATH macro and 'Package Source List' to define the
mapped drive but I am unsure how those should be defined. Should they be
just a drive letter or the entire path to the applications files? Also, I'm
not sure if anything else is need to make this work.
Any Ideas of what I might need to do to get this to work?
Thanks!
John

Graham,
Thanks for the suggestions. I thought this type of distribution still
worked in Zen 6.5. It used to work great for us under Zen 6 and I hadn't
seen anything that said it didn't work with Zen 6.5. We'll probably use a
second distribution for the short term and then try one of your other
suggestions or see if we can find another way that works better.
John
"Graham Mitchell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Depends on the kind of app you're trying to distribute... If it's a simple
> one ie you run something like setup.exe in a directory of files, then the
> files will NOT replicate out. If it's an MSI you're trying to distribute,
> even one with a file of support files (like say office), these WILL
> replicate out. Unfortunately, this is working as designed. You'll also
> find
> that file rights are NOT copied out yet either...
>
> There are a couple of ways round it... One is to do a seperate file
> distribution object to copy out the needed files/directories - I think
> this
> is messy, as you need to have 2 distributions for each application.
>
> You can use the repackager that comes with Zen to repackage the files into
> an MSI and use that to install the application on the workstations. This
> will replicate out fine.
>
> Another way, and they way we're starting to look at doing it, since it
> resolves some issues with workstation associated installs, is to have the
> application object copy all the files from the server onto the local
> workstation and run the install from there. To do that, you need a
> SOURCE_PATH pointing to the server distribution point, and another
> variable
> (we call it INSTALL_PATH) pointing to somewhere on the local workstation
> (C:\Install\MS\Office2k3). We then run the install from this location.
> Since
> all the files are mentioned in the distribution portion of the application
> object, when we distribute the application out to the remote servers, all
> the required files are copied out too.
>
> To do this manually for more than a couple of files is a royal pain in the
> ass... however, there's a makeaxt.pl PERL script available on
> coolsolutions
> that does most of the donkey work for you - give it the source and
> destination directories, and it will make an AXT file you can import. The
> only thing we have to do is to hit it with an editor, and replace the
> absolute paths (C:\Install\MS\Office2k3) with the variable we want to use
> (INSTALL_PATH).
>
> We're actually doing this, combined with the MSIs at the moment, since
> we're
> doing an image/application refresh for WinXPSP2, so we're rebuilding all
> the
> apps this way.
>
> If anyone is doing it differently, or has other suggestions, I'd love to
> hear...
>
>
>
> Graham
>
>
>
> "John Malinowski" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> I'm trying to do a Desktop Application Distribution with a simple NAL and
>> can not get the files associated with the NAL to copy to the subscriber
>> server. I am using ZFS 6.5 SP1. I am using a mapped drive letter in the
> NAL
>> and have chosen "Keep the same source paths for the replicated objects"
>> in
>> the distribution. I also have defined a variable in the service
>> location
>> package as 'drive letter'='volume name' and associated this policy with
> the
>> container that the distributor and subscriber are in. I checked the box
> in
>> the subscriber's variable property to use this policy. The documentation
>> also says to use a SOURCE_PATH macro and 'Package Source List' to define
> the
>> mapped drive but I am unsure how those should be defined. Should they be
>> just a drive letter or the entire path to the applications files? Also,
> I'm
>> not sure if anything else is need to make this work.
>>
>> Any Ideas of what I might need to do to get this to work?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
>

The difference between a .dmg file & a .cdr file (using Disk Utility) ?

Hi,
In particular, I created both from a DVD using Disk Utility.
When I chose "read only" a .dmg was created.
When I chose "DVD/CD Master" a .cdr was created.
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Carolyn
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Hosting Zenworks 7 Application Files On Windows Server?

Hi,
Background:
We currently host our Zenworks packages on Netware 6.5 servers. Our Zen7 is also installed on a Netware 6.5 server so we are running Novell Client 4.91 SP2 and the Zenworks agent on our Windows XP SP3 desktops (no middle tier).
We are now in the process of moving to Active Directory, and one of the first steps will be to migrate file services over to Windows shares. We currently use either the MSI feature of NAL to elevate rights or we use unsecured system user to elevate rights as our users are not Administrators of their workstations. We associate our application objects to either user container, user group, or simply invidual users. Our login scripts map drive letters to our Netware shares. Our MSI objects in NAL access the packages via the mapped drive letter while our normal objects (unsecured system user) access them by UNC path or by using application file distribution feature of NAL.
Questions:
Will there be any issues with moving the application files from Netware to Windows? What file permissions would we have to grant on the Windows side to allow the Zenworks agent to access the file shares? I know on the Netware side, we would grant read rights to the file share to the same containers, users, or groups that have access to the application object. We also granted our workstations container access to certain directories so that the unsecured system user could access the shares via UNC path. I've seen some discussion on the forums about using the built-in Everyone account on the Windows side. Would there be additional accesses required? What about the security implications of granting Everyone read access to these shares? I'm just trying to get an idea of what would be needed on the Windows side to allow Zenworks to keep working. Obviously we'll probably be keeping our eDirectory infrastructure at least until all phases of the migration are complete.
Thanks in advance!

You can Grant FileSystem Rights to DomainWorkstationObjects just as you
granted rights to ZENworks Workstation Objects.
These rights will be used by processes running in the SYSTEM space.
The result should be that there would be little issue with using a
Windows Share in lieu of a NetWare share for ZDM7.
On 4/29/2010 4:46 PM, joshbilsky wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> BACKGROUND:
>
> We currently host our Zenworks packages on Netware 6.5 servers. Our
> Zen7 is also installed on a Netware 6.5 server so we are running Novell
> Client 4.91 SP2 and the Zenworks agent on our Windows XP SP3 desktops
> (no middle tier).
>
> We are now in the process of moving to Active Directory, and one of the
> first steps will be to migrate file services over to Windows shares. We
> currently use either the MSI feature of NAL to elevate rights or we use
> unsecured system user to elevate rights as our users are not
> Administrators of their workstations. We associate our application
> objects to either user container, user group, or simply invidual users.
> Our login scripts map drive letters to our Netware shares. Our MSI
> objects in NAL access the packages via the mapped drive letter while our
> normal objects (unsecured system user) access them by UNC path or by
> using application file distribution feature of NAL.
>
> QUESTIONS:
>
> Will there be any issues with moving the application files from Netware
> to Windows? What file permissions would we have to grant on the Windows
> side to allow the Zenworks agent to access the file shares? I know on
> the Netware side, we would grant read rights to the file share to the
> same containers, users, or groups that have access to the application
> object. We also granted our workstations container access to certain
> directories so that the unsecured system user could access the shares
> via UNC path. I've seen some discussion on the forums about using the
> built-in Everyone account on the Windows side. Would there be
> additional accesses required? What about the security implications of
> granting Everyone read access to these shares? I'm just trying to get
> an idea of what would be needed on the Windows side to allow Zenworks to
> keep working. Obviously we'll probably be keeping our eDirectory
> infrastructure at least until all phases of the migration are complete.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
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Distribution appears dead!

Does anyone know what the error message "Distribution appears dead!" means?
I have several distributions applied to several servers. They are set to
refresh hourly. All of them worked perfectly at one time, but now each
distribution is returning this error message for some, but never the same
servers.
For example:
Distribution 1 (inventory policy) reports the error on servers a,b, and c.
Distribution 2 (file distribution) reports the error on servers d, e, and
f.
Distribution 3 (file distribution) returns the error on servers g, h, and
i.
I've checked the KB, but found no reference to this error message.
Thank you for your assistance.
-David Lange

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Copying same file to multiple locations problem

This is really bugging me.... since upgrading to Lion, file distribution is taking a lot longer. I can no longer copy the same (large) file to multiple remote systems (via finder) at the same time. The first copy kicks off fine and subsequent ones just queue up. In SL they used to all run at the same time. What's with the single threading!!! this is VERY annoying. Am I alone here or is the a general problem? I think I will log this. I'm sure one of my systems still has Applecare.

Apple have rejected this as a bug and claim it to be a feature of Lion. Feature my arse. It's either a bug a stupid idea by some dimwit who didn't think it through. If you're not happy with this new "feature" complain via feedback as a support call will result only in frustration.

Simple App Distribution

I’ve been using Zenwork for many years but just started a company
wide design to use Zenworks Server management, primarily T.E.D. System
overview: Windows 2003 SP2 – eDir 8.7.3.9 – Zenworks Desktop
Management 7.01 HP3 – Zenworks Server Management 7.01 HP4
The problem I have is trying to distribute a “simple app” from
the Distributor to 50+ subscribers. For example, I want to maintain one
copy of ConsoleOne and distribute to my remote site and run from the
network. All my MSI “Desktop Distributions” and “File
Distributions” work fine.
Distributor Defined Macro: SOURCE_PATH = \masterzenZENAppsConsoleone
Distributor Path: \masterzenZENAppsConsoleOne
Distributor File: \masterzenZENAppsConsoleOne1.2binConsoneOne.exe
Distributor Run to path: \%SOURCE_PATH%1.2binConsoleOne.exe
Subscriber Defined Macro: SOURCE_PATH = ZEN (Windows App Share)
Subscriber Path: \remotesiteZENAppsConsoleOne
Subscriber File: \remotesiteZENAppsConsoleOne1.2binConsoneOne.exe
Subscriber Run to path: \%SOURCE_PATH%1.2binConsoleOne.exe
The files and folder defined within the Distributors
“SOURCE_PATH” do push to the Subscribers, but the “Run
to Path” field doesn’t update the way I expect. The “Run
to Path” field gets completely replaced with the
“SOURCE_PATH” value, not inserting itself into the needed
space “\%SOURCE_PATH%1.2binConsoleOne.exe”

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Extracting distributions

Guys,
I just want to confirm my understanding of the extraction of distributions.
We are running ZFS 3.0.2 on NetWare 6 SP5, this is primarily in relation to
file packages.
Does the subscriber extract during every scheduled extract period (in our
case, every day)?
The way I understand it is that during every extract period (configured to
every day) the ZFS agent on the subscriber server extracts all packages it
has, it does not matter if a package was received that day or two months
ago. If there is no changes between the files in the distribution and those
on the server then no files are changed and the extraction of that package
ends. If there is a difference between the distribution and the files on
the server then the server files are updated with the distribution. For
example a set of files is distributed to all servers and extracted. After
several months, when the files no longer need distribution, the package is
inactivated and removed from all channels. If the distribution files still
exist on the subscriber then the files will be extracted every day. Is this
so?
Are the only ways to resolve this to upgrade to ZEN 6.5 and use the setting
to remove the temporary files or to manually go to all servers in the
network and delete the distributions I do not want extracted?
Thaniks in advance.
Michael
EDS.

No, if a distribution is extracted it doesn't re-extract again unless there
is a new revision. On the file distribution there is an option to re-run at
every extrect, this is the verification distribution option, this will check
the files at every extract but this option isn't enabled by default.
Ron
"Michael" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:Mvl6e.1032$[email protected]..
> Guys,
>
> I just want to confirm my understanding of the extraction of
distributions.
> We are running ZFS 3.0.2 on NetWare 6 SP5, this is primarily in relation
to
> file packages.
>
> Does the subscriber extract during every scheduled extract period (in our
> case, every day)?
>
> The way I understand it is that during every extract period (configured to
> every day) the ZFS agent on the subscriber server extracts all packages it
> has, it does not matter if a package was received that day or two months
> ago. If there is no changes between the files in the distribution and
those
> on the server then no files are changed and the extraction of that package
> ends. If there is a difference between the distribution and the files on
> the server then the server files are updated with the distribution. For
> example a set of files is distributed to all servers and extracted. After
> several months, when the files no longer need distribution, the package is
> inactivated and removed from all channels. If the distribution files
still
> exist on the subscriber then the files will be extracted every day. Is
this
> so?
>
> Are the only ways to resolve this to upgrade to ZEN 6.5 and use the
setting
> to remove the temporary files or to manually go to all servers in the
> network and delete the distributions I do not want extracted?
>
> Thaniks in advance.
> Michael
> EDS.
>
>

EPM Distribution on BPC 10

Hi,
we're facing performance issues about files distribution on BPC 10 NW.
These files distribution happened during the night.
We would like to investigate on process batch/dialogs consumption and adapt if needed.
Where can I see how many processes were used during night and at what intensity ? (t-code, ...)
On SM50 and SM66, I only see live process batches and dialog .
Maybe we are wrong and should investigate on other resources ...?
Thanks for your help,
Philippe

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C# reporting would be completely different from BPC reports. ( C# would based on code and some inbuilt controls which Microsoft provides)
First try for simple reports, also focus on the new EPM functions, this guide would be a starting point
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Other important reports would be balance sheet, P&L, Cash Flow, reports and input forms for head count planning, capex, opex etc.
You can take one at a time.
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Files that make up a tablespace

Hi,
I understand that a tablespace is the lowest level logical entity for storing data and that it can be made up of several physical files.
What I am unclear about is how Oracle distributes the data in the physical files (i.e. say I have TB01 (3GB) made up of 3 files TB01_01.ORA (1GB), TB01_02.ORA (1GB) and TB01_03.ORA (1GB). The tablespace is initially empty. If I create a table for one of the schemas using tablespace TB01 and insert enough rows to occupy 1/3 of the tablespace then how should I expect to see the data distribution in the physical files ? ).
I guess my question could be read as :
Is it necessary or even recommended for a tablespace to be made up of several (smaller) physical files if I have enough physical disk space for one large physical file ?
Thanks,
Gabriel

Hi,
The reason for having several datafiles on the server for a tablespace is the OS filesize limitation (typically like 2G on UNIX). Another reason is to be covenient
for portable tablespaces, and so on.
However, if you don't have OS limit (like Windows) then having one big tablespace is enough.
If you want to see the distributiion of datafiles run the following query first and then create your table and re-run the query again to see the file distribution.
select f.tablespace_name, d.file_name, sum(f.bytes) free_space_on_tbl
from dba_free_space f,
dba_data_files d
where d.FILE_ID = f.file_id
group by f.tablespace_name, d.file_name;

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