ZENworks Database Policy

Many of the agents in the system want to record information into the ZENworks database installed on your system. Previously, agents (such as the Application Launcher agent) would insert their event information into the database indirectly through SNMP messages. Now, in ZENworks for Desktops 4, the Application Launcher agent and other agents write directly to the database and do not rely on the SNMP system to record events.

In order for these agents to determine on which database they should place their information, they walk the tree, from the object representing the system they are supporting, until they find a Service Location Policy Package with an active ZENworks database policy.

The database policy then refers to a ZENworks database object in the directory (created at installation time), which, in turn, contains the server or the IP address of the server supporting the database. The system uses other information in the database object as well.

ZENworks Database Page

This page enables you to browse to the database objects in the directory that represent the databases you want to use for inventory and application management. All agents associated with this policy then write their log information into these databases. Figure 11.5 shows a snapshot of the Inventory Management tab, which can be accessed from the Service Location Object window in ConsoleOne. From this tab, you can click the browse button and navigate to the ZENworks inventory database you want to use for this service location policy.

Figure 11.5. The Inventory Management tab of the ZENworks Database page.

Application Management Tab

You can also specify the location of the application management database for the service location. From the ZENworks Database page, click the Application Management tab (refer to Figure 11.5), and then click the Browse button to navigate to the ZENworks application management database object you want to use for this service location.

Objects associated with this service location object use the inventory or application management databases you assign to store and retrieve data.

NOTE

For more information about ZENworks databases, see Chapter 2, "Installing ZENworks for Desktops 4."