Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
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Migration Guide
Novell®
10. 3
March 23, 2010
ZENworks® 10 Asset Management SP3
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Novell, Inc. , makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents or use of this documentation, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Further, Novell, Inc. , reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes to its content, at any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes. Further, Novell, Inc. , makes no representations or warranties with respect to any software, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Further, Novell, Inc. , reserves the right to make changes to any and all parts of Novell software, at any time, without any obligation to notify any person or entity of such changes. [. . . ] When a ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 license record is migrated to ZENworks 10 Asset Management, a licensed product with a single license entitlement is created in ZENworks 10 Asset Management. The license entitlement contains all the compliance and proof of ownership information previously associated with the ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 license record, including the following: Reconciled discovered products Reconciled catalog products (and associated purchase records) Attached documents Associated contracts User-defined field values for license records that are available in ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 IR 14 are not migrated. If you have ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 license records with version upgrades, all license records in the upgrade path are consolidated in a single ZENworks10 Asset Management licensed product with multiple license entitlements, one entitlement for each license record in the upgrade path.
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In ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5, version upgrades can be linked to multiple sources, but in ZENworks 10 Asset Management, version upgrade license entitlements can only be linked to a single underlying entitlement. If you have upgrades that have been linked to multiple sources in ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5, you need to review or modify the associated licensed products and license entitlements in ZENworks10 Asset Management after migration.
1. 6. 7 Migrating Custom Reports
The following topics provide more information on migrating custom reports: "Reports That Are Migrated" on page 25 "Reports That Are Not Migrated" on page 25 "Migrating Custom Reports from ZENworks Asset Management" on page 26 Reports That Are Migrated The following ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 custom reports can be migrated to ZENworks 10 Asset Management: Workstation inventory reports Software usage reports Software management reports Contract management reports In addition, Custom Report Alerts/Schedules, along with the e-mail list from ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5, are migrated with custom reports. After migration, ZENworks 10 Asset Management evaluates each report to determine if it needs to be run. The option to attach the report results in CSV format is changed during migration to attach the results in an Excel format. You can view schedule information for a report in ZENworks Control Center by navigating to the specific report page and clicking Schedule/Notification. You can view the e-mail list by clicking Configuration > Asset Inventory. Reports That Are Not Migrated The following reports are not migrated: Reports containing the following fields: Workstation Is Checked Out Workstation Checked In/Out Date Product License Count Product License ID Product License Name (Product) License Required License Platform Last Scan Date/Time Default Gateway (Workstation) Subnet Mask (Workstation)
Using the Migration Utility
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Over/Under (Summary) (Software Compliance) Any fields related to Connection Information, Collection Servers, or Collection Domains If you want to migrate a report containing one or more of the fields above, create a version of the report in ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 with those fields removed and then migrate that version. If you don't remove those fields, no part of the report is migrated. If you have made changes to these reports in ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 and want to keep those changes, make a copy before migrating the reports, and the copy is migrated. Stored report results (Stored report results can be viewed in ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5. ) Report folder rights. By default, all ZENworks 10 Asset Management users have read-only access to the migrated report folders. Reports with the following focus are not migrated: Connection Information Component Filtering Hardware - DMI License Allocation - Demographic License Allocation - Workstation Licenses - Associated Documents Purchase/License/Inventory Infrastructure Reports with a criteria of Workstation in Report or Workstation not in Report when the following criteria are met: The referenced report will not be migrated and the reference report is not one of the predefined reports distributed with ZENworks 10 Asset Management. The custom report is based on a predefined report whose report definition has been modified or deleted in ZENworks 10 Asset Management. NOTE: A bug in ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 can cause an error when Hardware System Board reports are imported into ZENworks 10 Asset Management. This is because in ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5, both Bus 1 Slot and Bus 2 Slot columns are linked to the Bus 2 Slot column in the database. Reports containing both of these columns cause the following error message: NC_SystemBoard. Bus2Slots is not unique. To resolve this, go to the report definition and remove one of the Bus 2 Slot columns from the list of selected columns. Migrating Custom Reports from ZENworks Asset Management Custom reports are migrated automatically the first time an inventory migration is run. If you want to migrate just the custom reports and not the inventory data, do the following: 1 Click Start > All Programs > Novell ZENworks > ZENworks Asset Management Migration Utility.
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2 Log in to your ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 database and the ZENworks 10 Management Zone as shown in Section 1. 4, "Selecting the Migration Source, " on page 14 and Section 1. 5, "Selecting the Migration Destination, " on page 16. 3 Click Tools > Options to open the Options window.
4 Select Migrate Definitions Only. [. . . ] ZENworks 10 Asset Management enforces a unique Notification name in each folder. If you have Notifications in ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 with duplicate Notification names, the migration fails.
B. 1. 8 Documents
ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 Unique Record is a randomly generated identifier. ZENworks Asset Management 7. 5 allows Documents to have duplicate values in all columns. ZENworks 10 Asset Management enforces a unique Document ID name in each folder. [. . . ]