Novell zenworks software deployment

Posted by: rpfenninger 12 years ago. There are several types of application objects like simple, msi, web! A web application object is a very simple object. You just enter your URL to create the object and that's it. When a user starts the object, it automatically opens the machines standard browser and gets to that URL. Posted by: FunWithApps 12 years ago. This also works fine as a batch file. Hope this helps! Posted by: weezmc 12 years ago. Ok honestly the other posters answered this but there's issues I have with them.

Typical deployment scenarios involve half a dozen to a dozen url's linking to different web based databases and creating a zen app for each individual web link is kinda stupid on Novell's part. So the way around this is create a folder called desktop and use a zip utility with. One simple app linked to a self extracting exe zip file instead of a dozen or more seperate novell apps to keep track of.

Rating comments in this legacy AppDeploy message board thread won't reorder them, so that the conversation will remain readable. Answer this question. Posted by:. Reply Cancel Cancel. Top Replies. Hi With regards the agent deployment you have a few options, you can use ZENworks itself by using the Discovery Jobs and from this you can the create a deployment job. Hope that helps and few pointers to documents that hopefully help you.

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As of September 1, , the Material is now offered by Micro Focus, a separately owned and operated company. Unlike any other client management solution, ZENworks relies on user-based management. This is a huge time-saver when every user has multiple devices or moves around. ZENworks offers dynamic, automated protection that changes based on where your users are.

Policies you set up control firewall settings that application users can access and more. ZENworks offers policy-based patch deployments, which allow you to define the desired state of your workstations and define maintenance windows for when patches can be applied.

ZENworks then fully automates the process to ensure devices maintain that desired state. The new reporting system makes it easy to collect and analyze information in the following areas — either by building customized reports or by leveraging canned ones:. The ZENworks diagnostics dashboard helps IT solve problems on the back end so they do not influence management and protection of users and devices.