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ZENworks Next GenerationGWAVACon Sneak Peek
Martin BuckleyDirector, Systems and Resource Management Impact Team
mbuckley@novell.com
V 1.0 1 Oct 2006
Some History and ContextTraditional ZENworks
Traditional ZENworksEnterprise Desktop Management
Major advantages:
• Extremely available – scalability, resilience, up time– Tens of thousands of workstations hitting a single 3 node NetWare cluster– Resilient (clustering, failover, application and site lists)– Bandwidth efficient within firewall (site lists, Tiered Electronic Distribution)– Well understood
– Many ZENworks, NetWare and eDirectory administrators worldwide
• In live deployment traditional ZENworks scales up to 125,000 devices and users with a small team of administrators.
– Unlike ANYONE else– Extremely cost effective
Traditional ZENworks
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Some History and ContextZENworks 4 and later
Traditional ZENworksEnterprise Desktop Management
ZENworks for Desktops 4 introduced the Middle Tier
• Removed the requirement for Novell Client32 on workstations• Allowed management outside the firewall• Provided management across standard protocols – https and
CIFS• ZENworks 6, ZENworks 6.5 and ZENworks 7 provided
significant enhancements– Scalability– Platform support– 'ZENMUP' – inside the firewall use the Microsoft client to get updates from
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Traditional ZENworks
Middle Tier architecture
middle tier servers
outside firewall
Traditional ZENworksEnterprise Desktop Management
These architectures have served us well – but it is time for a change:
• Customers demand standard protocols on the wire
– No more NCP, drive to LDAP, CIFS, HTTPS
• Middle Tier was always a stepping stone to cleaner protocols
• Move to a role-based, task-oriented browser-centric management console
• Remove the boundaries between products – move to a common interface, common repository, common metaphor between product and across platforms
• Become truly environment agnostic
– support eDirectory, Active Directory, LDAP
– support multiple platforms
Next Generation ZENworks“Brimstone”
Traditional ZENworks
desired changes
Changes:
• easier to install and deploy
• remove dependency on corporate eDirectory
• remove chatty communication to back-end
• more flexibility
• unify the product
• all web-based administration
• support server consolidation
Future ZENworks
new architectural elements
New Architecture:
• introduction of an embedded object store
• enhanced and expanded database, simplified schema
• web-services/SOAP interfaces
• browser-based administration console
• new daemon with pluggable agents
• redundant services (multi-server service)
• configurable client redirection to back-end web services
relationships
ZENworks
future architecture
primary
database
ZENworks
future architecture
tiered electronic distribution
distribution point
content
relationships
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database
satellite
ZENworks
future architecture
tiered electronic distribution
distribution point
content
relationships
primary
database
satellite
managed devices
connectivity
ZENworks
future architecture
tiered electronic distribution
distribution point
content
relationships
primary
database
satellite
managed devices
connectivity
LDAP Directory
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