Migrated bundles fail to be installed if a migrated filename contains &

  • 7005178
  • 19-Jan-2010
  • 29-Apr-2013

Environment

Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management with Support Pack 2 - 10.2 Migration

Situation

ZENworks Desktop Management 7 application objects will appear to successfully migrate, but when deploying the bundle to the device, errors are shown in the event log. The migration tool fails to upload files with "&" in the file name.
 
Looking in the services-messages.log on the server will show information similar to that shown below:
 
[DEBUG] [9/21/09 6:15:41 PM] [] [ContentAdminImpl] []
[java.io.FileNotFoundException:
/var/opt/novell/zenworks/collection/datamodel/638a5699cf844af8a59381df94e5295a/img&file.bmp
    at
com.novell.zenworks.datamodel.services.content.ContentAdminImpl.prepareForImport(ContentAdminImpl.java:175)
    at
com.novell.zenworks.datamodel.services.content.ContentAdminImpl._startContentImport(ContentAdminImpl.java:732)

Resolution

This is fixed in version 10.2.2 - see KB 7004803 "ZENworks 10 Configuration Management 10.2.2 - update information and list of fixes" which can be found at https://www.novell.com/support