ZENworks is available as a virtual appliance that can be deployed to a supported virtual infrastructure. ZENworks Appliance is built on a customized SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), and comes pre-installed with ZENworks and thus helps save on operating system license costs.
After deployment, ZENworks can be configured by using an easy to use web based Console. Also, the same console can be used to maintain ZENworks Appliance and perform basic tasks such as executing commands, starting and stopping services, viewing logs, uploading, and downloading files.
You can also tweak basic server settings and monitor the server performance. With the new ZENworks Appliance, it is significantly easier to move to a new major version of ZENworks.
Appliance supports root and zenadmin users. The root user has all privileges on the appliance and ZENworks. The zenadmin user has a few privileges on appliance and all on ZENworks.
The root user has the following privileges:
On Appliance
Ganglia Configuration
Ganglia Monitoring
Network
Time
Storage
System Services
Firewall
Administrative Passwords
Field Patch
Online Update
Shutting Down and Restarting ZENworks Appliance
On ZENworks
ZENworks Configuration
Terminal and File Explorer
Logs
Log Configuration
ZENworks Control Center
The zenadmin user has the following privileges:
On Appliance
Ganglia Configuration
Ganglia Monitoring
System Services
Administrative Passwords
Field Patch
Online Update
Shutting Down and Restarting ZENworks Appliance
On ZENworks
ZENworks Configuration
Terminal and File Explorer
Logs
Log Configuration
ZENworks Control Center