Environment
ZENworks 10 Configuration Management - Beta
Situation
When Pulsar
has discovered a workstation based on a VMware image, if that
VMware image is recreated with the same hardware information,
Pulsar discovery will create a second device rather than replace
the original.
System
Message Log shows the following: "Device name already existed,
changed to " plus the GUID for the device.
This problem
does not occur after re-imaging a device using ZENworks
imaging.
Resolution
VMware does not
preserve image safe data. Image safe data is where ZENworks
stores the GUID for the workstation, which allows the agent to
reconnect to the same device object. If you use ZENworks
pulsar imaging to image the device, then you will not see this
problem.