Non-root user unable to assign satellite roles with zman

  • 7007236
  • 19-Nov-2010
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management with Support Pack 3 - 10.3 Zman
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Linux Support Pack 2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 3

Situation

Non-root users are unable to assign satellite server roles with zman:

zman -U=Administrator -P=<password> ssc "/Servers/Branch Servers/fs8949a1co1oh" Authentication,Collection,Content <servername>

The role you specified (Authentication) is not a valid satellite server role.  Valid roles are:

ZoneConfig.ROLE_COLLECTION
ZoneConfig.ROLE_CONTENT
ZoneConfig.ROLE_AUTHENTICATION

Resolution

Rights to the proper configuration files and directories are assigned to the zenworks user and group.  Add the user(s) who are to perform the assignments, to the zenworks group.