Configuring the System Update Behavior of the ZENworks Adaptive Agent
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Configuring the System Update
Behavior of the ZENworks
Adaptive Agent
You can configure System Update behavior on the ZENworks Adaptive Agent that resides on
managed devices.
1
In ZENworks Control Center, click the
Configuration
tab.
2
In the Management Zone Settings panel, click
Device Management
, then click
System Update
Agent
.
3
Fill in the fields:
Show Permission Prompt:
Select
On
to display a dialog box on the managed device when a
System Update is ready to begin. If this setting is set to
On
, the user can cancel, postpone, or
allow the update to begin.
By default, this setting is set to
Off
, which does not give the user the ability to cancel or
postpone the update, and the update begins immediately without the user being prompted.
Permission Prompt Max Postpone
This setting specifies how many times the user can
postpone the update. If you select
On
for the
Show Permission Prompt
setting, the user is
prompted before a System Update begins. The user can then postpone the update. Select
Unlimited
to let the user postpone the update an unlimited number of times. Or, Select
Limit
,
then specify a number to let the user postpone the update the specified number of times. By
default, the user can postpone the update five times.
NOTE:
Because this feature was added after localization for non-English-languages, there is
no translation available for the string required to indicate to the user that they have a limited
number of postpone attempts. In the event that a localized string is unavailable for the local
language (this will be the case for all non-English languages), this setting is ignored, and the
user is allowed an unlimited number of postpones. You can remedy this limitation by setting
the
PERMISSION_MSG_POSTPONES_REMAINING
string in the registry under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Novell\ZCM\SystemUpdate
using {0} to indicate the
number of postpones remaining.
Permission Prompt Timeout
When the user is prompted for permission to apply the update,
you can specify how long you want to wait for an answer before the update begins. To display
the permission prompt until the user responds, select
No Timeout
. Or, select
Timeout after _
mins
and specify the number of minutes you want an unanswered prompt to remain on the
user’s screen before the update starts. By default, the user has five minutes to respond to the
prompt.
Specify this value in minutes.
Permission Prompt Nag Time
When the user chooses to postpone the start of the update, this
setting specifies how often the prompt appears to let the user know that an update is waiting to
start. By default, this prompt displays every 15 minutes.
Specify this value in minutes.
Specify this value in minutes. The default is 120 minutes.
