> Is anyone using Novells ZEN to manage their zLinux installations/updates? > Any tips/hits/gotcha's/etc. ?
It works well enough, but is a substantial resource pig compared to simpler tools such as yum. As delivered, it is quite large in memory footprint, and wakes up in the middle of the night and does a bunch of database processing to ensure it's got all the stuff it's supposed to have. Not a big deal on a non-shared machine; very big deal on a shared machine when several dozen machines all wake up at the same time and try to beat the daylights out of the Zenworks server. It does a lot of XML parsing and munging to determine package state, which is very CPU intensive, both on server and client, and there's a lot of network bandwidth involved in schlepping all that XML around to get a couple of simple package release numbers back and forth. It's analogous to any enterprise package management tool. If you've gone to the trouble to use Zenworks to manage other platforms in your environment, then it's probably worth using it on Z. If you haven't, then explore other lighter-weight options. :rant.(I wish someone would convert RH and SuSE to APT. RPM is just not up to the demands of complex environments.):erant. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
