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Gaining Control of your Software with ZENworks Asset Management
Chris Gacesa Senior Product Manager CGacesa@novell.com
Ian Stimpson Senior Technical Specialist IStimpson@novell.com
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Agenda
• Addressing the Business Issues with ZAM
• What does ZAM do today – Inventory
– License Management
– Software Usage
– Contract Management
• What is ZAM going to do in 11.3 – Inventory Data Pruning
– Apple Mac enhancements
– Add Hardware Components
– Add Remove Programs integration
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Novell
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You Need Information You Can Use – And You Need It NOW
what licenses you have – diffuse the threat of vendor audits
how assets are allocated – manage costs across the organization
how both web-based and installed applications are used – reduce the expense of unused assets
where your hardware is – answer ITIL Change Management questions about your devices
Know
Know
Know
Know
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Reconciliation
License tracking & compliance
Asset inventory/software discovery
Software usage
Contract management
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Conduct an enterprise-wide inventory with the push of a button
From a single console, ZENworks gives you a clear picture of your environment: down the hall, down the street, across the country, or around the world
Novell® ZENworks® Asset Management
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License View vs Inventory View
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010
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Microsoft Office
Standard
Office 2007
Upgrade to 2010
Office 2010
License Entitlements:
Licensed Product
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Catalog Product “Microsoft Office Pro 2010 Full License”
Catalog Product “Office 2010 Professional”
Discovered Product
Microsoft Office Professional 2010
License Entitlement Microsoft Office Professional 2010
(Per-Install)
Purchase Detail: PO#1009 on 12/03/11,
Microsoft Office Pro 2010 Full License,
Purchased 5
Purchase Detail: PO#1015 on 11/05/12,
Microsoft Office Pro 2010 Full License,
Purchased 10
Purchase Detail: PO#1017 on 02/02/13,
Office 2010 Professional, Purchased 5
License Quantity 20
Installed Quantity 25
Under licensed by 5
Proof of Ownership Coverage
Consumption from inventory: Microsoft Office Professional 2010
Microsoft Office Professional 2010 SP1 Microsoft Office Professional 2010 SP2
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Server
360° View of Software Usage
Office
Data Center
Home
Citrix or Terminal Server
Web Server
Key Metrics: • Active Time • Run Time • # of Users • # of Workstations • # of Starts • Avg. Days Used • Days with Starts • Apps Used • Apps Not Used
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Contract Management
• Manage contracts
– Maintenance, support, license, initial purchase agreement, lease agreements, etc.
• Increase visibility
– Reduce risk of violating terms and conditions
– Improve vendor negotiating position
– Improve visibility of maintenance/support entitlements
• Reduce cost
– Eliminate late fees on leased equipment returns
– Reduce costs associated with missed renewals
– Reduce time to locate/manage contract documents
– Reduce time to locate assets related to contracts
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Maintaining ZAM
Upload Documents
Physical Contracts, EULAs, Purchase
Orders etc.
Import Purchase Data
Connectors ERP Exports
Import Template
Create Contracts
Start & End Dates Set Notifications Associate Docs
Review
Imported Data vs
Inventory Data
Define Licenses
Link Purchase Records to Inventory
Data
Asset Management Futures SP3
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Inventory Data Pruning
• Why is Inventory Data Pruning required ? – Inventory Data occupies large portion of ZENworks database
– Based on the Inventory Schedule this data can grow very quickly
– Impacts database performance and thus ZENworks performance
• What is pruned ? – Only unreferenced Inventory records
– Prunes tables that holds – Inventory data
– Inventory history
– Application / Web / Network Usage
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Inventory Data Pruning
• Feature highlights – Automated maintenance of Inventory Data
– Settings to govern age of the Inventory Data to be persisted
– Ability to override the settings at Folder or Device level
– Ability to schedule the pruning activity
– Timeboxing the pruning activity
• Demo of the Inventory Pruning Settings
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Macintosh Inventory Collector
• Feature highlight – New Macintosh Inventory Collector built over system_profiler
– Built using Java, hence the same Collector runs on all Mac platforms
– Designed using system_profiler grammar, making it easy to support newer Mac platforms
• Inventory on Mac Managed Device – The Inventory Collector on Mac currently uses the legacy
native collector which would now move to the new collector
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Macintosh Inventory Collector
• Inventory Only Agent (IOA) for Mac – The new IOA Agent for Mac will leverage the cross platform
agent infrastructure and will use this new Inventory Collector to report Inventory
– No more dependency on Rosetta (like Mono in the Mac world). Hence the newer Mac platforms will now be supported
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Add Hardware Components
• Why is this required ? – If any hardware product has not been reported in the Inventory
Report after the Inventory scan, you can use the Add Hardware feature to manually add a hardware product for a device
– If any hardware is not connected to the network (e.g. Stock Room), records can be maintained here
• What can be added ? – Common hardware components
– CD/DVD Drives, Disks, USB Devices, Printers etc.
• Demo of Add Hardware
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Add Remove Programs Integration
• Feature highlights – Inventory collector on Windows will additionally look into Add
Remove Programs while collecting software Inventory
– Ability to (optionally) report all the MSIs installed on the device
– Will help improve the Software Inventory quality for a Windows Managed Device
– Removes complete dependency on fingerprinting – Software Inventory today is based on the fingerprint definitions that is
released as part of the Monthly PRU
– Though 300-500 fingerprints are added in a month, it is not enough to support all the software released around the world
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Add Remove Programs Integration
• How it works – The Software Inventory collected from a Windows device will
be a reconciled list of software recognized using the fingerprints AND the software reported from the Windows Add Remove Programs
– Software found only in the Add Remove Programs will be reported as a new Product
– Reconciliation will be done based on … – Common attributes. i.e. Manufacturer name, Product name, Version
number etc.
– Common files between fingerprint and Add Remove Programs
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Add Remove Programs Integration
• Asset Management Integration – All ZENworks Asset Management features will be supported
over the products recognized from the Add Remove Programs – License Compliance
– Usage Tracking
• Demo of Add Remove Programs integration – Inventory report (ZCC)
– Asset Management features over ARP products – License Compliance
– Usage Tracking
In Conclusion
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Maintain your ZAM Environment and you will Gain Control of your Software
Upload Documents
Physical Contracts, EULAs, Purchase
Orders etc.
Import Purchase Data
Connectors ERP Exports
Import Template
Create Contracts
Start & End Dates Set Notifications Associate Docs
Review
Imported Data vs
Inventory Data
Define Licenses
Link Purchase Records to Inventory
Data
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This document could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically made to the information herein. These changes may be incorporated in new editions of this document. Novell, Inc. may make improvements in or changes to the software described in this document at any time. Copyright © 2013 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. All Novell marks referenced in this presentation are trademarks or registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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