ZENworks Next Generation GWAVACon Sneak Peek Martin Buckley Director, Systems and Resource Management Impact Team V Oct 2006

Some History and Context Traditional ZENworks

Traditional ZENworks Enterprise 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 Client-server architecture back-end servers managed devices connectivity within firewall eDirectory replication tiered electronic distribution

Some History and Context ZENworks 4 and later

Traditional ZENworks Enterprise 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 the CIFS share

back-end servers managed devices connectivity within firewall eDirectory replication tiered electronic distribution Traditional ZENworks Middle Tier architecture middle tier servers outside firewall

Traditional ZENworks Enterprise 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 primary 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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