Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.3 IR2, Administration Manual

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For example, if you request to install package A that depends on package B, and package B depends
on package C, the ZENworks Management Daemon automatically finds the dependent packages B
and C from the available repositories or catalogs and installs them along with the requested package
A.
19.4 Loading Base Packages
You should load the base packages from all the distributions of the managed devices into the
catalogs on the ZENworks Linux Management server. This ensures that the base packages are
optionally available to the agents and are used only to resolve package dependencies.
To load the packages from the distributions into the catalogs on the ZENworks Linux Management
server, you must perform the following tasks in the order listed:
1 Create a package bundle in the ZENWorks Control Center. Alternatively, you can also use the
zlman bundle-create
command.
2 Mount the distribution media or iso and browse to and select the directories that contain
packages you want to add to the bundle.
3 Add the directories to the package bundle by using the
zlman bundle-add-package
<bundle name > <target> *.rpm
command.
IMPORTANT: You must not assign this bundle directly to the managed devices. Doing so
installs all the packages in the bundle on the agent.
4
Create a catalog and assign the bundle to it.
5 Assign the catalog to the required managed devices.
19.5 Patching the Client Systems
If you are using the SLES 10 ZENworks Linux Management agents, you can receive updates by
registering with the Novell Customer Center. You can then apply these updates to your system by
using the
rug/zen-updater
command. However, this process is not recommended in a ZENworks
Linux Management setup because of the excessive usage of bandwidth by the SLES 10 agents to
download the updates.
The best way to obtain updates is to periodically use zlmmirror to mirror the updates to the
ZENworks Linux Management server, and then assign the mirrored bundle to the managed devices,
which saves the Internet bandwidth. The zlmmirror has the advantage of mirroring updates from
NU, YOU, YUM, RCE, and RHN repositories to which the ZENworks Linux Management agents
cannot register directly. See the zlmmirror man pages
zlmmirror (1) (page 554) for details.