Novell ZENworks 7 Linux Management: Administrator’s Handbook

Chapter 5. Registering Devices into the System

This chapter discusses registering devices in ZENworks 7 Linux Management. It primarily discusses two methods for registering devices:

• Manually through the command line

• Through the install

Registration Keys and Registration Rules

After you have installed the ZENworks Linux Management server, you should go into the ZENworks Control Center and set up registration keys and/or registration rules.

Registration keys and rules tell ZENworks Linux Management how you want managed devices to be registered with the system.

Registration Keys

Registration Keys are best used for situations where you want to create a limit on the number of devices that are registered. For example, if you know that a specific department ...