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Novell ZENworks 6.5 Adds Linux, Patch Management: Page 2 of 5

The automation, added Murray, also helps free Linux-using organizations from relying on hand-coded scripts or key knowledge residing with specific individuals who may not always be available. "Removing this risk lets you do strategic migrations to Linux."

ZENworks Patch Management lets administrators determine which patches are needed, and their priority, with automatic distribution to ensure systems have the latest patches installed.

AdminStudio ZENworks Edition, a special edition of InstallShield's AdminStudio, integrates with ZENworks to automatically create application objects for easy
distribution of software packages across the enterprise.

Other new features of ZENworks 6.5 include better inventory capabilities, and improvements for deploying and installing ZENworks in Windows-only environments.

Policy-Driven Management of Heterogeneous Enterprise Environments

"ZENworks is Novell's resource management suite, a collection of products that focus on policy-driven, identity-based management solution," according to Novell's Murray. "The key thrust across all those products is
to automate repetitive like change and configuration management.