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

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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

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ZENworks

future architecture

tiered electronic distribution

distribution point

content

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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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