Novell ZENworks Linux Management lets you connect to a remote server and copy software catalogs, bundles, or packages (including Dell Updated Packages) from the remote server to your server by using a few simple commands.
Depending on your needs, you might have more than one ZENworks Management Zone in your system. The information in this section helps you mirror content across Management Zones or from remote servers. For information about replicating content from a ZENworks Primary Server to ZENworks Secondary Servers in a particular Management Zone, see Section 24.0, Replicating Content in the ZENworks Management Zone.
You can mirror software by using the zlmmirror command line application. Software can be mirrored to a ZENworks Primary Server from the following remote servers:
ZENworks Linux Management (from the servers in one ZENworks Management Zone to another Management Zone)
Dell Update Packages (DUPs)
YaST Online Updates
Red Hat Network
Red Carpet Enterprise or ZENworks 6.6.x Linux Management
YUM (Yellow dog Updater, Modified)
NOTE:To mirror from a ZENworks 6.6.x Linux Management server to a ZENworks 7.3 Linux Management server, the 6.6.x server must also be a YaST Online Update (YOU) server.
Novell, Dell, SUSE, and Red Hat each maintain servers of their respective types, enabling you to simply mirror the catalogs and bundles you are interested in without needing to maintain or update these repositories.
Mirroring is the preferred method to obtain the majority of the software you distribute to managed devices. If you use a strict firewall where outbound connections are not automatically allowed, connecting to a remote port 80 or a remote port 443 is necessary.
IMPORTANT:Mirroring YaST online updates for a SLES 9 platform with ia64, ppc, or s390 architectures is not supported in ZENworks 7.2 Linux Management or later.
The following sections contain additional information: