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Get powerful protection for all 
of your portable devices

How much of your company's secure information is stored on mobile endpoint devices? Novell helps you take control no matter where your users might be, with Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management.

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Put end-user devices behind a potent firewall

Get driver-level firewall protection powerful enough to protect government computers from hackers and malware.

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Protect against bugs in USB Storage devices

Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management ensures the safe use of removable storage devices through policies.

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Create data encryption when you need it the most

Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management lets you easily define and enforce data encryption policies that deliver data security and peace of mind.

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Enjoy a truly unified solution

Centralize the management of all your devices into a single, unified and easy-to-use web-based ZENworks console called ZENworks Control Center.

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ZENworks Endpoint Security

Management Technical

Specifications

 

Product-Specific Information

ZENworks Endpoint Security Management 11 is a part of the ZENworks 11 platform, but is limited with respect to which devices it can deploy security policies to (effectively a sub-set of all ZENworks 11 the managed devices). This means that it shares a common agent, server and web-based console with all other ZENworks 11 products (ZENworks Configuration Management 11, ZENworks Asset Management 11, ZENworks Patch Management 11). However, the specific capabilities of ZENworks Endpoint Security Management 11 are limited to the managed devices noted here.

You can use ZENworks Endpoint Security Management policies on the following managed devices:

Windows Workstations:

  • Windows 2000 SP4
  • Windows XP SP1, SP2 & SP3
  • Windows Vista (32-bit)
  • Windows 7 (all versions)

*Please note that the balance of technical information on this page reflects the ZENworks 11 platform.

Managed Devices

You can use Novell ZENworks 11 to manage the following servers, workstations and thin-client sessions:

Linux Servers:

  • SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
  • Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (Linux)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6+
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3+

Linux Workstations:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11

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)
  • Windows 2008R2 (Enterprise and Standard editions)

Windows Workstations:

  • Embedded XP SP2 / SP3
  • Windows Vista SP1 / SP2 x86, x86-64 (Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise versions only; Home versions are not supported)
  • Embedded Vista SP1 / SP2
  • Windows Embedded Standard 2009
  • Windows Embedded Point of Service
  • Windows XP Professional SP2 / SP3 x86
  • Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP3 x86
  • Windows 7 x86, x86-64 (Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions)

Thin-client Sessions:

  • 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

Mac

  • Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later

Inventoried-Only Devices

You can use Novell ZENworks 11 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 2 SP1 x86, x86-64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1-4.x
  • Solaris 2.6-10 Sun SPARC (32 and 64-bit)
  • SLES 8.0-11 (all editions)
  • Windows Server 2003 SP1 / SP2 x86, x86-64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)
  • Windows Server 2008 SP1 / SP2 x86, x86-64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)

Workstations:

  • Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later
  • Red Hat Linux 7.1-9
  • SLED 8.0-11 (all editions)
  • Embedded XP SP2 / SP3
  • Windows Vista SP1 / SP2 x86, x86-64 (Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise versions only; Home versions are not supported)
  • Embedded Vista SP1 / SP2
  • Windows XP Professional SP2 / SP3 x86
  • Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP3 x86
  • Windows 7 x86, x86-64 (Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions)

Server Requirements

The following lists the general supported server configurations on which you can install Novell ZENworks 11 services.

Windows Servers:

  • Windows Server 2003 R2 x86, x86_64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)
  • Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86, x86_64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)
  • Windows Server 2008 SP1 / SP2 x86, x86_64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 x86_64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 x86_64 (Enterprise and Standard editions)

Linux Servers:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES 10) SP3/SP4 x86, x86_64 (Intel and AMD Opteron processors)
  • Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) SP2 / SP3 x86, x86_64
  • SLES 11 SP1 x86, x86_64 (Intel and AMD Opteron processors)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 / 5.3 / 5.4 / 5.5 x86, x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 x86, x86_64

Database Support

Novell ZENworks 11 supports the following databases:

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
  • Oracle 11g R2
  • Sybase SQL Anywhere 12