I’ve been asked about ZLM cache licenses.
These are enabled in two places – in the base server.key license file; also with activation licenses for the caches.
First step is to check your server.key enables cache support
The server.key must have a line:
< caches > some number < /caches >
If the server.key does not have this line you will need a new server.key. Get this from Novell.
This is in my bookmarks from around the time we acquired Ximian (late 2003) – it’s still funny. ::uberGeek::Toons::Switch to Linux()
I posted a lot of the previously internal ZENworks Linux Management/Red Carpet Enterprise configuration documentation. I dated it for December 2004 – which was when I posted it internally at Novell. Some day I must go back and clean up the formatting – it’s a raw cut and paste from the ZENworks internal wiki.
I was hunting around for some information on Mono dependancies when I found this article by Kevin Shockey:
Installing Mono on SuSE Linux with Red Carpet
Interesting – but one subtle flaw. The ZLM client components – also known as Red Carpet – are available online and they are open source – source hosted at cvs.gnome.org.
I mailed Kevin:
Kevin
I’ve just read your article from the end of last year – http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6123 – and I thought it was particularly interesting.
One thing to note – did you know that the ZENworks Linux Management client components – also known as Red Carpet – are 100% open source and available without downloading ZENworks Linux Management?
We have the RPMs for many platforms at ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/redcarpet2 – certainly fast and easy.
Also we have the public Red Carpet server http://red-carpet.ximian.com which provides community updates – including those for Mono.
Finally we have another open source project – Open Carpet – which lets developers host their updates to be consumed by the Red Carpet/ZLM client components – http://opencarpet.org
Let me know if I can be of any further help – and please feel free to reference this data in the future.
Regards,
/ezs
Let’s see if this gets a response. I’m keen to evangelise the benefits of OpenCarpet for developers and hacker teams.
No sooner have I posted on ZENworks 7 Linux Management – when a slew of press comes out:
Novell Linux Strategy In Full Bloom
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159401396
Novell CEBIT announcements are loud and clear
http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/03/11/0231214.shtml?tid=2&tid=3
Novell debuts ZENworks for Linux
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/11/HNzenworks7_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/11/HNzenworks7_1.html
Novell Ramps Up its Linux Push
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775498,00.asp
Novell Upgrades Zenworks Linux Management Software
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775525,00.asp
This also got on Slashdot:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/13/1233251&tid=223
I’ve been working with the Novell Ximian engineering team in Cambridge, MA for about 18 months now – working to evolve Red Carpet Enterprise through to ZENworks Linux Management.
The ‘next’ version of ZENworks Linux Management has been planned and under development for about a year – it’s codename was “Project Birdman“.. the name was chosen by the Ximian team 🙂
Novell have just made an announcement at CeBIT that we will be releasing this product as ZENworks 7 Linux Management – and that this will be available in mid 2005.
My colleagues in Product Marketing have made a sweet ‘Sneak Peek’ website with information.
After BrainShare I’ll post more on this.
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