More zen stuff

The most recent novell-client push we did included a Zen Agent push. This is the first step in a Zen7 upgrade, and that end of it went great. No worries.

Except. Except the transform file for the Zen Agent included a pair of registry keys that forced all workstations that installed the client to register as a specific workstation. Sub-optimal. I've fixed the transform file, but I suspect some of our desktop support people copied the install directory to CD for use in offline installs, and included the bad MST. Grr.

I've got like 95% of the workstations registering under their own names now. But that last 5% is proving insidious. My most recent Zen-Fu attempt is to associate an application object that runs "zwsreg -unreg" as the System user. This forces the workstation to cleanly unregister. Then, as a side-effect, shortly after that (or on the next reboot or whatnot) it'll query the Name Resolver to figure out if there is a "zenwsimport" that resolves to an IP address. Which will work, since I have it in WINS right now. So things are re-importing. Since doing this, I've gotten something like 150 new workstation registrations and our total is around 3575 machines.

Next week I'll push out another force-run application that'll do "zwsreg -importserver [ipofimportserver]". Which should catch the remainders.

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