6.1 ZENworks Configuration

The ZENworks Configuration page is enabled only after ZENworks is successfully configured.

  1. On the ZENworks Appliance home page, in the ZENworks section, click ZENworks Configuration.

The ZENworks Configuration page has the Summary, Basic, and Advanced views.

The Summary view enables you to view the ZENworks Primary Server details. This includes information about the Certificate, ZENworks Database, ZENworks Audit Database, and Appliance details, such as type of hypervisor used, operating system, RAM and file system and HDD details.

The Appliance comes with built-in 43 GB of rootfs file system that is mounted on root directory. The Additional hard disk that is added will be attached to the /dev/sdb1 and mounted on /vastorage. All ZENworks related configurations, log files, backup files, certificates, and binaries are stored on the additional hard disk.

Click Open ZENworks Control Center to use ZENworks.

The Basic view displays frequently used server configuration settings as an individual configuration value. You can edit frequently used ZENworks related settings.

For example, you can configure HTTP Thread Count by changing the default value, save, and then restart the pending service that is available in Restart Service page.

Basic view has the following options:

  • Save: Saves the modified settings.

  • Refresh: Refreshes all the ZENworks configurations.

  • Reset all values to defaults: Reverts the settings to the state since applying last ZENworks system update.

  • Restart Services: Enables you to select the services that need to be restarted to reflect the configuration changes.

    When there is a change in the configuration file that is associated with the ZENworks process, then the system automatically determines it and the process gets listed in the Restart Services page.

The Advanced view enables you to view, configure, or edit any server configuration file that is related to ZENworks, such as ZENServer, Tomcat, CASA, datamodel, ZENLoader, and ZMAN. You can view all relevant server configuration files in the ZENworks Primary Server.

By default the file will be in Read-Only mode. To edit a file, toggle the Edit Mode, change the required content of the file, and then Save. changes are made to the file, then the corresponding process has to be restarted by clicking Restart Services.

The Advanced view has the following options:

  • Edit Mode: Enables you to toggle or edit a server configuration file in an editor.

  • Reload: Loads the server configuration file from the file system. Any unsaved changes made in the browser editor will be lost.

  • Reset to default: Reverts the file to the state since applying last ZENworks system update.

  • Save: Saves a server configuration file to the file system.

  • Refresh All: Refreshes all the ZENworks configurations.

  • Download: Downloads the server configuration files.

  • Download all Files: Downloads all the server configuration folders that are displayed in the left pane. The appliance creates a compressed archive of the files to be downloaded.

  • Reset all values to default: Reverts all the files to the state since applying last ZENworks system update.

  • Select Path: Click the select path icon to copy the physical path of the configuration file.

  • Restart Services: Enables you to select the services that need to be restarted (in Basic or Advanced view) and to reflect the configuration changes.

    When there is a change in the configuration file that is associated with the ZENworks process, then the system automatically determines it and the process gets listed in the Restart Services page.