Pre-exam prep
Superstition? Maybe.
I always listen to “Dreams Never End” by New Order before every exam I’ve taken. Ever since mock GCSEs in 1987.
ITIL Managers Certificate
Back in London to sit the two, three hour papers for the Managers Certificate.
Fingers crossed; first one Wednesday afternoon, second on Thursday morning.
ZENworks Configuration Management – agent certificate trust
In some circumstances you need to turn down the agent trust – especially with a NAT or DNS Round Robin environment.
This registry key changes the agent to accept a looser trust on name matching:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARENovellZenworks] "require-verified-certs"="false"
ZENworks Configuration Management – building a custom agent deployment package
A long title for a short post.
The default agent deployment packages created during Primary Server installation are hard coded to the Fully Qualified DNS Name and the static IP address of your server. All well and good for a single server; but what about:
- DNS round robin
- servers behind static NAT
- etc
Here’s how to build a custom agent deployment package with either no server details (add them via registration at deployment time) or with a single DNS name.
ZENworks Configuration Management – System Updates
As I wrote in a previous post – one of the most important new features of ZENworks 10 Configuration Management is the System Updates feature.
This allows administrators to automatically download, approve and deploy ZENworks patches and updates across their servers and workstations.
Written at: Winchester, England
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