by ezs | Nov 8, 2007 | Uncategorized, ZENworks
Novell has a fantastic demo suite known as Utopia – listen to this Novell Open Audio Podcast for details.
One issue that was reported by the field was that running Windows 2003 server on VMware workstation with ZENworks Configuration Management would sometimes cause the ZENworks services not to start.
I’ve never really seen this issue; I saw one VM that was broken – but only saw that everything was slow.
For the sales kickoff I built a set of VMs and was testing them. Moving from ESX to VMware Workstation on SLED running on a Thinkpad T42p laptop I saw the issue.
In short the workstation service was being slow to start; the server was stressed – and the service timed out. The dominos started to fall; Net Logon failed etc etc etc.
My fix is simple. Make the workstation service dependant on something that is relatively benign but that will start with some reliability. I chose the DNS service (it’s a single server) – because that ultimately provides the DDNS underpinning to Active Directory and other services.
Here’s how:
sc config lanmanworkstation depend= dns
That simple. Reboot and you should now have a working ZCM Utopia demo.
For the internal Novell people – did this fix your problem?
by ezs | Nov 8, 2007 | fun stuff, Uncategorized
I blogged last year on ZENworks project code names.
We recently almost announced a project codenamed “Brown Trout”.
Innocent sounding to the US reader; I’ll let the rest of the English speaking world share what the context is.
Hint: It’s brown, streamlined and lives in water. But it’s not a fish.
by ezs | Nov 7, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized, wordpress
Just a quick note; WordPress 2.3.1 adds support for WLW Keywords.
Some nomenclature changes – tags to keywords; but it works just great.
Here are the Keywords in WLW:
… and the corresponding tags in WordPress:
by ezs | Nov 7, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
ZENworks imaging can use the Preboot eXecution Environment – PXE – to start it’s imaging engine.
When the imaging server components (TFTP server, Imaging engine, Proxy DHCP) are running on the same server as the DHCP server there are certain configuration changes that need to be made.
Read the ZCM10 documentation for more.
Three steps to happiness – I’ll document this for Windows; SLES is broadly similar.
– set the Proxy DHCP to run correctly
– set Proxy DHCP to start automatically
– add DHCP option tag 60 to the DHCP scope
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by ezs | Nov 7, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’m building demos and lab machines for the Sales Kick off in Orlando next week.
I had a load of laptops that needed cleaning up before reinstallation. I even had a disk from my old production laptop that still had PGP whole disk encryption bootguard on it.
Trinity Rescue Disk helped out again. Delete the partitions; re-write the master boot record. Invaluable.
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