ZENworks Asset Management

• Reduce IT costs
  Eliminate over- and under-purchasing and increase your bargaining power with software vendors.
• Lower compliance and security risk
  Improve license compliance with a complete view of software installations and sophisticated license reconciliation capabilities.
• Make more informed software purchasing decisions
  Gain all the knowledge you need to negotiate effectively with vendors.
• Get WorkloadIQ management benefits
  Novell ZENworks Asset Management, a WorkloadIQ™ product, helps you avoid software overspending, and comply with software licensing and regulatory audits, by delivering complete information about your hardware and software. This delivers on the WorkloadIQ promise of lowering your total cost of ownership by managing devices across their lifecycles.
  

Managed Devices

You can use Novell ZENworks Asset Management to manage the following servers, workstations and thin-client sessions:

Windows Servers

Windows 2000 Server SP4
Windows Server 2003 SP1 / SP2 x86, x86-64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)
Windows Server 2008 SP1 / SP2 x86, x86-64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)

Windows Workstations

Windows 7
Windows 2000 Professional SP4 x86
Embedded XP SP2 / SP3
Windows Vista SP1 / SP 2 x86, x86-64 (Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise versions only; Home versions are not supported)
Embedded Vista
Embedded Vista SP1 / SP2
Windows XP Professional SP2 / SP3 x86 and SP3 x86
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP3

Thin-client Sessions

Windows 2000 Server SP4 x86
Windows Server 2003 SP1 / SP2 x86, x86-64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)
Windows Server 2008 SP1 / SP2 x86, x86-64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)
Citrix XenApp MetaFrame XP
Citrix XenApp Presentation Server 4.0
Citrix XenApp 4.5

Inventoried-Only Devices

You can use Novell ZENworks Asset Management to inventory the following servers and workstations:
Servers

AIX 4.3-5.3 IBM pSeries (RS6000)
HP-UX 10.20-11.23 HP PA-RISC (HP9000)
NetWare® 5.1, 6, 6.51
OES (NetWare) 1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1-4.x
Solaris 2.6-10 Sun SPARC (32 and 64-bit)
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 8.0-11 (all editions)
Windows 2000 Server SP4 x86
Windows Server 2003 SP1 x86, x86-64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)
Windows Server 2008 x86, x86-64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)
Windows NT 4.0
 
Workstations

Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later
Red Hat Linux 7.1-9
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 8.0-11 (all editions)
Windows 95

Server Requirements

The following lists the general supported server configurations on which you can install Novell ZENworks Asset Management services:
Windows Servers

Windows Server 2003 SP1 / SP2 x86, x86-64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)
Windows Server 2008 SP1 / SP2 x86, x86-64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)

Linux Servers

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES 10) x86, x86-64 (Intel and AMD Opteron processors)
SLES 10 SP1 / SP2 x86, x86-64 (Intel and AMD Opteron processors)
Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES Linux) x86, x86-64
OES 2 SP1 (Linux) x86, x86-64
SLES 11 x86, x86-64 (Intel and AMD Opteron processors)

Database Support

Novell ZENworks Asset Management supports the following databases:
Sybase SQL Anywhere 10.0.1
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Enterprise and Standard editions are supported)
Oracle 10g Standard - 10.2.0.1.0