Novell Doc: ZENworks 10 Discovery, Deployment, and Retirement Reference

9.1 What Happens During Registration

The ZENworks Adaptive Agent includes a service that performs all registration tasks. The tasks performed by the Registration service depend on whether the device is registering for the first time, performing a scheduled refresh, or reregistering with a new registration key. The following table lists the tasks performed in each scenario.

Table 9-1 Registration tasks

Task	Initial Registration	Refresh	Reregistration ¹
Create device object in ZENworks database	Yes	No	No
Name device object according to device naming template	Yes	Yes ²	Yes ²
Add device to folder	Yes	No	No
Add device to groups ³	Yes	No	Yes
Add site, department, and location information ³	Yes	No	Yes
Update device attributes (GUID, IP address, DNS name, last contact time, etc.)	Yes	Yes	Yes

¹ Reregistration assumes that the device object has not been removed from the ZENworks database and that the device is simply being reregistered using a new registration key.

² Occurs only if the Device Dynamic Rename option is enabled. See Section 9.4, Enabling Dynamic Renaming of Devices During Registration for more information.

³ Occurs only if the key or rule being used for registration includes this information. See Section 9.2, Creating Registration Keys and Rules for more information.