1. Novell BrainShare 200
Simplifying Workstation Management Using Novell ZENworks® for Desktops Prometheus
Martin Buckley Product Manager ZENworks for Desktops Novell, Inc.
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2. Vision…one Net Mission
A world where networks of all types—corporate and public, intranets, extranets, and the Internet—work together as one Net and securely connect employees, customers, suppliers, and partners across organizational boundaries
Mission
To solve complex business and technical challenges with Net business solutions that enable people, processes, and systems to work together and our customers to profit from the opportunities of a networked world

4. What Is Novell ZENworks®?
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What Is Novell ZENworks®?
The Novell ZENworks family of products…
Automates and personalizes content and applications to increase productivity for end users and network managers alike
Allows you to minimize costs by reducing redundancies, effectively leveraging your resources and precisely tracking their use
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5. The Novell ZENworks Family
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The Novell ZENworks Family
ZENworks for Desktops
Manages the complete workstation lifecycle and provides personalized workstation service to end users
ZENworks for Servers
Provides cross-platform server consistency, content distribution, and management of critical resources, alarms, SNMP, and inventory assets
ZENworks Preboot Services
Enables PXE integration for ZENworks for Desktops workstation disk imaging
ZENworks for Handhelds
Automates management for wireless and handheld devices
ZENworks OnDemand Services
Automates digital asset provisioning to users wherever they are; tracks and reports usage; manages and personalizes terminal services
ZENworks Synergy
Extends the managed, personalized work environment to any location from any Windows machine
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6. ZENworks for Desktops next-generation version
What’s This All About?
ZENworks for Desktops Prometheus
is the project name for the
next-generation version
of the award-winning
ZENworks for Desktops

7. ZENworks for Desktops Prometheus: What’s New
New web services architecture working alongside the traditional client-server world
New features and improvements in all areas
Application management
Desktop policy management
Inventory and workstation asset management
Remote management
Workstation imaging

8. Web-Services Architecture: Why?
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Web-Services Architecture: Why?
ZENworks Prometheus introduces a whole new paradigm for workstation management with some real business and technology benefits
No requirement for Novell Client32™
Solid platform for the future
HTTP/HTTPS transport to the workstation
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9. Novell Client for directory access
ZENworks for Desktops 3.2
Client/server communication across LAN/WAN
NCP SMB
non-firewall friendly
Novell Client for directory access

10. ZfD Prometheus with Novell Client32
Client/server communication across LAN/WAN
This architecture remains unchanged from ZfD 3.2
NCP SMB
Non-firewall friendly
Novell client for directory access

11. ZENworks Prometheus without Client32
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ZENworks Prometheus without Client32
Web services architecture
Directory
DMZ
Middle tier
Apps
HTTP/HTTPS
Data
Integrates with existing firewall and security strategy
No Novell client—small management agent, can be inside browser
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12. Web Services Architecture: A Closer Look
NetWare® 5.1, NetWare 6— Apache plug-in
Windows 2000—Apache or IIS plug-in
Testing

13. Workstation Management Agents
Three worlds
With Novell Client32
Without Novell Client32—ZENworks login
Without Novell Client32—Microsoft login
Let’s look more closely

14. Workstation Management Agents with Novell Client32
This should be very familiar to many people
When the Novell Client32 is used all communication to the directory and server file system is directly client-server using traditional protocols (NCP, SMB)
Use this for workstations mainly inside the firewall

15. Workstation Management Agents without Novell Client32, Novell Login
Let’s be clear—this is not Client32—it is the ZENworks Prometheus GINA
Use this if you need Ddynamic local user support—in other words, if you are are working in an environment without Microsoft Domains or Active Directory

16. Workstation Management Agents without Novell Client32, Microsoft Login
Nothing changes for the user
Because there is no ZENworks GINA, there can be no dynamic local user management
Credentials are cached and passed through to the ZfD Prometheus agents
Use this in an existing Microsoft Domain/Active Directory environment

17. Why Should I Keep the Novell Client32?
Minimize business risk—change and reconfiguration costs
Support staff are familiar with the client
Performance and scalability inside the firewall
It is already installed on your workstations
Client32 is required for other Novell solutions

18. Workstation Agents
ZfD Prometheus now has a series of ‘workstation agents’—you may already know these
Application management agent
Policy management agent
Inventory agent
Remote management agent
These are updated, slimmed-down, clientless versions of the traditional ‘ZENworks for Desktops’ client pieces

19. What’s New—Overview
So, as well as a new web-services, clientless architecture, all other components of ZENworks for Desktops have been improved and expanded
Application management
Policy management
Workstation imaging
Workstation inventory
Workstation remote tools

20. Application Management
Novell Application Launcher (NAL) has had several key enhancements
Mobile-user-friendly
Checkpoint restart, bandwidth detection and management, compression
Application chaining
New application types
Web applications
Thin-client applications
New presentation layer
NAL window, Desktop, recently added web browser view
Related sessions—
TUT213 and TUT313

21. Policy Management
Again, policy management has seen some significant improvements
Policies now very granular, split by platform
Novell iPrint policy
ZfD Prometheus agent configuration policy
Roaming profile support for mobile and roaming users—even across the Internet
Related session—TUT311

22. Workstation Imaging Support
Many enhancements—take a look at the ZfD imaging and pre-boot services session for all the details
Full support for Windows XP professional
Speed and performance improvements
Related session—TUT214

23. Workstation Inventory Management
Workstation inventory has also seen updates
Support for MS SQL Server 2000
Custom inventory scanning
Crystal reports for reporting
Cross-tree rollup
Related session—TUT211

24. Workstation Remote Management
Novell asked customers what they needed for remote management
ZfD Prometheus delivers on these wishes
Faster
Less bandwidth required
No Client32 required
No requirement for workstation to be imported
Enter IP address/DNS name and remote control
‘Session password’ for security
Works in a NAT environment

25. Other Sessions TUT211—Deploying ZENworks Inventory
TUT311—Managing Location Independence Using ZENworks
TUT315—Planning, Scaling, and Implementing ZENworks for Desktops Prometheus
TUT313—Advanced Application Management Using ZENworks for Desktops
TUT214—ZENworks Imaging and ZENworks PreBoot Services