Activation key

The activation key is the primary mechanism to register machines in ZENworks. 

The key is generated and certain properties are given to the key, like groups, 

channels, and administrators. When a machine is activated using this key it gets 

all these properties automatically in ZENworks. So the activation key used to 

activate the client more or less sets its role in the organization.

First impressions

In this section we describe some standard actions in the ZENworks Linux 

management server. This gives a good first impression of how the tool works and 

what it can do.

The standard actions we describe are:

Creating a group

Adding a channel with packages

Creating an administrator

Adding an activation key

Adding a client to ZENworks using Red Carpet

On first login using the administrator account, the Web page of ZENworks Linux 

management looks like Figure A 26 on page 190. These tests were performed 

using an evaluation copy of ZENworks 6.5 Linux management, obtained from:

http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/eval.html

This is a limited version but all functionality is present.

The different areas of the server are reached through navigation links on the left 

side of the page. These links are present on all pages to enable quick navigation 

through the Web enabled administration of the ZENworks Linux management 

server.

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