Converting from ZENworks Imaging

Is your organization moving from Novell Imaging to using ONLY Altiris DS? Did your organization use Image safe data during imaging? Are you still going to have Novell Client / Agent in in POST Altiris world? If you answer yes to all of these questions you will need to have a way to remove the image safe data. In the Novell world you would simply add a line to your linux script to call zisedit -c or zisedit -r and this would clean out the image safe data. But since you are now imaging with DS, this cannot be done directly in Altiris.

So after some Google searching I have found a very simple tool called ZisdCtrl from a company named Expert Networking Group Limited http://www.engl.co.uk With this tool and a simple script you can do the following:

1. Download the tool (http://www.engl.co.uk/products/zisdctrl/index.html) [this site does require you to register]
2. Unzip the zip file
3. Copy everything from the bin to a location on your eXpress share
4. Edit the install.bat file to suite your needs (IE get rid of the pause commands)
5. Create embedded script and or call this vbs script from your console
6. Run a machine that has image safe data

You also verify before and after removing the image safe data has been removed by running zisdctrl-get.vbs from the examples folder.

Example VBS to remove ZENWORKS image safe data:

' ***************************************************************************************
' ENGL ZisdCtrl 3.0
' Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Expert Networking Group Limited 
' http://www.engl.co.uk
'
' This example demonstrates use of the remove() method to remove ZISD from the hard drive.
' ***************************************************************************************

' Connect to ZisdCtrl
Set ZisdCtrl = CreateObject("ZisdCtrl.ZisdObject")

' Remove ZISD (false indicates that a prompt will be displayed before removal commences)
' Remove ZISD (true indicates that a prompt will NOT be displayed before removal commences)
Dim status
status = ZisdCtrl.remove(true)