On Sunday 20 August 2006 10:20, John Andersen wrote:
Nobody gives a rip about Zen. Nobody can even understand it.
ZENworks is an enterprise management system, which allows you to manage tens of thousands of machines from one single location. It allows you to say things like "All members of the engineers group gets all development tools; all members of the secretaries group can't change any aspect of their system, including the desktop wallpaper" etc. It can also do system imaging and a lot of other things. And with the next public release, it allows you to manage Windows machines, NetWare machines and Linux machines from one single location.
You read the leaden descriptions about what it is supposed to do and you come away shaking your head in despair. Its a solution in desperate search of a problem.
Remote management of boxes was one of the most requested features of YaST. The problem is clearly there and needs a solution. Up to a certain point you can do things with shell scripts and ssh, but for really large environments, that isn't really tenable
Even Novell has not successfully implemented it in house on a corporate scale.
explain?