AWI fails to import workstations if OU is part of the naming policy

  • Document ID:3342865
  • Creation Date:17-Jan-2007
  • Modified Date:30-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      Open Enterprise Server
      ZENworks Desktop Management

Environment

Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management on Linux Support Pack 1 - ZDML7 SP1 Automatic Workstation Import
Novell Open Enterprise Server (Linux based)

Situation

If the server policy is configured to create workstation object using the user's OU as part of the workstation object name then the workstation object will fail to be created.

Resolution

Workaround: Simply removing the OU from the naming policy will allow the workstation to be imported.

Status

Reported to Engineering

Additional Information

The error does not occur if the user's OU is actually ROOT.
This error does not occur under NetWare, just OES Linux.