Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.3 IR2, Administration Manual

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Add file: Click Add File to open the RPM File Upload dialog box. Browse to and select
the RPM packages that you want to add to the bundle. The RPM packages must be located
on the local device on which you are running the ZENworks Control Center. Click
OK to
upload the packages to the ZENworks Linux Management server. The package repository
is the
/var/opt/novell/zenworks/pkg-repo
directory on the ZENworks Server.
Target platforms: Select one or more platforms from the Target Platforms list. You can
press
Shift+click
or
Ctrl+click
to select multiple platforms.
The target platform is the platform of the devices that the package will be installed on.
ZENworks Linux Management does not auto-detect the target platform by examining the
RPM packages because RPM packages are not limited to working on only one platform;
RPM packages can be created to work on multiple platforms. For this reason, the
administrator must select the platform of the target devices.
NOTE: Bundles can be installed on any platform; bundles are not platform-specific. The
packages contained in bundles are platform-specific and can be installed only on devices
supporting the specified platform.
You can, however, create a bundle containing several packages that apply to various Linux
platforms. When the bundle is assigned to a group of devices or to a folder that contains
devices running on different platforms, each managed device gets the appropriate
packages installed.
For example, you could create a bundle containing two packages: PackageA and
PackageB. PackageA applies to suse-93-i586, rhel-3es-i386, and sles-9-i586. PackageB
applies to rhel-3es-i386 only. If you assign the bundle to a folder containing three devices,
with each device running one of these platforms, the bundle will be installed on all three
devices; however, PackageA will be installed on all three devices and PackageB will be
installed only on the device running rhel-3es-i386.
For this reason, the ZENworks Control Center might indicate that a bundle is effective for
a device even if one or several packages contained in the bundle was not installed.