Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - NETWORK DISCOVERY DATABASE STRUCTURE, System Administration Manual

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Grouping your servers in several stages so that the update process isn’t too intensive for the
Primary Server being used to perform the updates.
Š Grouping the workstations in several stages so that the update process isn’t too intensive for the
Primary Server being used to perform the updates.
Any managed devices that are not part of a stage are automatically updated after the last deployment
stage has been processed.
You cannot configure stages when an update is in progress.
The following figure illustrates the Deployment Stages panel on the System Updates page:
Figure 20-1
The Deployment Stages Panel
The following table explains the column information. For some columns, you can sort the listed
information by clicking a column heading. Click it again to reverse the sorting order.
Table 20-1
Deployment Stages column descriptions.
Column Heading Explanation
Ordinal Displays the order in which the stages run. You can rearrange the staging order by
using the
Move Up and Move Down options. For more information, see “Rearranging
the Order in Which Stages Start” on page 189 .
The first stage listed always displays ordinal 1, the second, ordinal 2, and so on.
Therefore, you do not need to include a sequence number in your stage names.
Stage Name Name of the stage, which you specify when creating the stage by using the Action >
Add Stage option.
Make this name descriptive enough to indicate its purpose.
Stage Members This column contains the View/Modify Members option, which opens the Modify
Stage Members dialog box that lists all of the members of the stage. You can use the
dialog box to add or remove members from the stage.
Stage membership can include individual devices and groups that contain devices.
For more information, see “Modifying the Membership of a Deployment Stage” on
page 187 .
Staging Behavior Displays the current behavior for each stage, which you can change by using the
Action > Modify Staging Behavior option. For more information, see “Modifying
Staging Behavior” on page 186 .