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System Requirements 13
NOTE: If a Primary Server is behind a NAT firewall, the devices on the Internet or public network
cannot communicate with it. To resolve the issue, you must configure additional IP addresses or DNS
names for the Primary Server through ZENworks Control Center. For more information on how to
configure additional access to a Primary Server, see “Configuring Additional Access to a ZENworks
Server” in the ZENworks 11 Primary Server and Satellite Reference.
1.2 Managed Device Requirements
The ZENworks Adaptive Agent is the management software that is installed on all managed devices,
including Primary Servers.
Managed devices can be used as . If you want to use a managed device as a satellite, then in
addition to the requirements listed in this section, make sure that the device is capable of performing
the satellite functions and meets the requirements listed in Section 1.3, “Satellite Requirements,” on
page 18.
 Section 1.2.1, “Windows Managed Device Requirements,” on page 13
 Section 1.2.2, “Linux Managed Device Requirements,” on page 17
1.2.1 Windows Managed Device Requirements
ZENworks 11 can manage any Windows workstation and server that meets the following
requirements:
4011 Used for proxy DHCP when it is running on the same
device as the DHCP server. Make sure that the
firewall is configured to allow the broadcast traffic to
the proxy DHCP service.
13331 Used by the zmgpreboot policy, but will not work
across firewall because it opens random UDP port for
each PXE device.
The zmgpreboot policy is used only with ZENworks
Configuration Management.
Supported
Hypervisors
ZENworks server software can be
installed in the following virtual
machine environments:
 VMware Workstation 6.5
 XEN (Novell SLES 10, SLES
11 and Citrix XenServer 5.x)
 VMware ESX (4.1 update1)
 Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Windows 2008 R2
 Only released versions of guest operating
systems (VMs) are supported. Experimental
guest operating systems are not supported.
 The guest operating system must match the
operating system specified when creating the
VM. For example, if during creation of the VM,
the guest operating system is specified as
Windows Server 2003, the actual guest
operating system must be Windows Server
2003.
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