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480 ZENworks for Desktops 4.0.1 Administration Guide

Novell Confidential Manual (99a) 28 October 2003

Imaging Agent (Ziswin.exe)

The Imaging Agent is an extension to the Windows bootup procedure on a workstation. It runs

before any network communications are established. It enables you to:

 Make an existing Windows workstation safe for reimaging

When you install the Imaging Agent on an existing Windows workstation, it saves certain

workstation-unique data (such as the IP address and Computer name) to an area on the hard

disk that is safe from reimaging. After the workstation is reimaged and Windows reboots, the

agent restores the data from the image-safe area so the workstation can communicate on the

network using the same identity as before.

 Automatically assign a network identity to a brand new workstation

A new workstation (with no Windows operating system) doesn’t have a network identity

established yet. You can define network identity information for such a workstation in an NDS

or Novell

eDirectory

policy and apply it when the workstation receives its first Windows

image. In this scenario, the Windows image is put down (including the Imaging Agent) on the

workstation and the identity information from the NDS or eDirectory policy is written to the

image-safe area on the hard disk. When the workstation reboots, the Imaging Agent reads the

data from the image-safe area and applies it to the Windows installation, thus establishing the

workstation’s network identity automatically.

Before you install the Imaging Agent on a workstation, the files that comprise it are available in

the zenworks\imaging folder in your ZfD installation (on the imaging server). After you install the

Imaging Agent on a workstation, it is located either in the Windows system folder or in

novell\zenis on the drive where Windows is installed.

Installing the Imaging Agent

To install the Imaging Agent so that it runs automatically each time Windows starts, follow the

instructions in Chapter 41, “Setting Up Workstations for Imaging,” on page 445.

The data that the Imaging Agent saves to (or restores from) the image-safe area includes the

following:

 Whether a static IP address or DHCP is used

 If a static IP address is used:

 IP address

 Subnet mask

 Default gateway (router)

 Computer (NETBIOS) name

 Workgroup that the workstation belongs to, if any

 If the workstation has been registered in NDS or eDirectory:

 Distinguished name of the Workstation object

 Context of the Workstation object

 NDS or eDirectory tree that the Workstation object belongs to

On a workstation that has just received a new Windows NT/2000/XP base image, in addition to

restoring the above data, the agent also locates and modifies all instances of the Security Identifier

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