ZENworks Linux Management
ZENworks Linux Management makes it easy manage Linux in your existing environment. It’s the only solution that uses Policy-Driven Automation to deploy, manage and maintain Linux resources.
These automated and intelligent policies allow administrators to provide centralized control throughout the lifecycle of Linux systems for workstation lock down, imaging, remote management, inventory and software management. The result is a comprehensive solution that eliminates IT effort by dramatically reducing the overhead needed to manage Linux systems.
 Policy-Driven Automation: How Linux Administrators Work Smarter
ZENworks Linux Management is the only solution that uses Policy-Driven Automation to deploy, manage and maintain Linux resources. Simply define business processes and policies once and then automatically apply them to all your Linux workstations and servers across the enterprise — throughout their entire lifecycle.
Centralized Control of Linux Servers and Workstations
ZENworks Linux Management is today’s most powerful, secure and manageable Linux software management solution. With it, you gain centralized control across Linux software configurations — from servers to workstations.
Configure, update, secure and manage SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 9 from a central location. Streamline the deployment and integration of Novell Linux Desktop into your existing environment.
ZENworks Linux Management provides market-leading change and configuration management tools that consolidate ongoing resource management to reduce Linux workstation and server management costs.
Gain Centralized Control
Centralized control is essential to ensure administrative consistency and enterprise-wide availability. ZENworks Linux Management provides:
Centralized Logging and Monitoring
Stay up to date on system health and logged events on distributed Linux workstations and servers. Easier-to-use administration with visual status shows whether a device is healthy or requires attention. Hot lists provide a quick view of devices that have severe alerts and need immediate attention.
Device Lock down and Configuration
Keep devices secure and stable through centralized management of configuration files. Advanced policies let you control workstation and server settings as well as certain applications.
Secure Remote Control
Now you can securely connect to and control Linux servers and workstations.
Comprehensive Management from A to ZENworks
The Novell ZENworks Suite, which includes ZENworks Linux Management, is the technology foundation for the award-winning Novell Resource Management solution. Unlike point products, ZENworks offers a comprehensive set of integrated, cross-platform tools to streamline IT management processes across today’s multi-platform environment of workstations, laptops, servers and handhelds.
Using Policy-Driven Automation, ZENworks automatically applies and enforces your business policies based on user and device identities. Your IT staff gains consistent, highly automated management, regardless of device type, operating system or location. In addition, this best-in-class resource management solution sets the standard for:
Security. Minimize security risks posed by hackers, viruses and spyware. Novell ZENworks helps you measure, mitigate, audit and defend enterprise resources.
Choice. Manage your diverse systems — today and tomorrow — as one cohesive environment. Supports Microsoft* Windows*, NetWare®, Novell Open Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Novell Linux Desktop, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux, Palm OS*, Windows CE, Pocket PC and RIM BlackBerry* platforms using Novell eDirectory or Active Directory*.
Reliability. Build and proactively maintain a stable, predictable environment to ensure business availability. Forty million users rely on environments managed by Novell ZENworks every day.
Value. Cut management time and expense while gaining substantial ROI. Novell ZENworks customers realize a 73 percent reduction in downtime, 45 percent higher IT staff productivity, 1,012 percent three-year ROI and a 98.5-day payback period.1
Increase Efficiency and Productivity
InfoWorld 2005 Technology of the Year Award
InfoWorld’s Test Center identifies the big ideas — and the 33 hottest products — that will transform IT. Novell ZENworks 6.5 was named “Best System Management Solution,” and it was called a “venerable suite that improves support for handhelds and reaches out to Linux.”
— InfoWorld, January 2005
Doing more with less remains the mantra of corporate IT organizations. Here are several ways ZENworks Linux Management helps you work smarter:
Policy-Driven Configuration
Centrally define Linux OS distribution and application configurations and enforce them across Linux servers and workstations.
Software Dependency Resolution
Unlike other software management solutions, ZENworks doesn’t force administrators to figure out package requirements before they attempt to install software. ZENworks Linux Management automatically checks package dependencies and alerts you to conflicts before completing installations.
Automated Software and Patch Management
Significantly reduce the time and risk of managing continuous software and security packages, and instantly resolve conflicts to keep your Linux resources stable and secure.
Software Package Rollback
Revert to a previously installed software configuration or configuration state on a specific date.
Enhance Responsiveness and Business Agility
Greater IT responsiveness can fuel corporate agility. Here are several ways ZENworks Linux Management helps you address today’s rapidly changing technology:
Rapid Linux Migration
Perform imaging and Linux OS deployment in a pre-boot execution environment (PXE) to efficiently migrate devices to Linux and deploy new Linux devices.
Automated Data Management
Automatically back up and synchronize user files and data across multiple devices and even the Internet to reduce the costs of lost data, data restoration and help desk calls. ZENworks Linux Management supports Novell iFolder® for automatic local data backup, automatic update and synchronization of local user files and secure worldwide availability of local user files to any device via the Web.
Real Linux Management for Linux Administrators
Linux administrators deserve a complete Linux management solution—not a product pretending to be Linux-worthy, or one that requires administrators of Linux systems to work within an unfamiliar management paradigm.
Novell leads the Linux community in development and is the single largest contributor of open source enhancements. We bring unmatched insight to enterprise Linux management thanks to the workstation and server experience of SUSE Linux and the enterprise resource management knowledge of the Novell Resource Management team. Novell ZENworks Linux Management represents the combined efforts of some of the brightest minds of this collaborative talent pool.
Maintain Freedom to Choose
Linux-based computing is driven by efficiency, choice and value. So is ZENworks. Here are several ways ZENworks Linux Management keeps your options open:
Web-Based or Command-Line Administration
Choose from an intuitive Web-based console or a powerful command-line interface. Both let you centrally configure and distribute software selections and organize groups of machines for installations and updates.
Manage Leading Linux Software Distributions
ZENworks Linux Management supports Novell Linux Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Novell Open Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Custom Channels
Organize and present available Linux software into logical channels that match the way your company does business. Define unique channels of applications,
ZENworks Control Center, the new Web-based console, allows intuitive management from any location. tools and designated platforms that include both internally developed or custom packages.
Flexible Package Options
ZENworks Linux Management is available as a standalone product or within the ZENworks Suite, bundled with Novell Linux Desktop or with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.
Enterprise Linux Management from the Leader in Linux
Novell is committed to helping customers realize the full value of Linux and open source software in the enterprise. Novell is the largest company to offer a full stack of Linux support and services—complete with extensive training and certification programs. Today, Novell supports more than 1 million managed Linux systems, and continues to offer market-leading capabilities with ZENworks Linux Management—the most manageable platform available for Linux workstations and servers.
Linux is a focal point of Novell’s vision and technology roadmap. That’s why Novell continues to back Linux with extensive investment in research, product development and open source community participation. Trust Novell to automate Linux resource management from the workstation to the data center—so you can advance your enterprise Linux strategy with confidence.
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