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Introducing ENGL ZmgWiz!

ENGL ZmgWiz is a Windows utility that can scan one or more ZENworks image (.zmg) files and display a detailed disk and file usage report. ENGL ZmgWiz can help administrators understand what disk space is being used by files within ZENworks images and alert them to the amount of space that could be saved by purging or recreating the images. ENGL ZmgWiz can also output the report to an XML file that could be displayed with XSL and HTML.

Server disk space is always a problem regardless of the number of images an organisation has to maintain. The problem can be eased by using ENGL Imaging Toolkit for ZENworks to reduce the number of base images required for Windows 2000 and XP imaging. During the lifecycle of an image, it is likely that files will be deleted or added to the image using the ZENworks Image Explorer. Unfortunately, ZENworks Image Explorer will only purge deleted files, it does not purge files or directories that have been updated in the image. Furthermore when images are restored all files that have been previously updated/replaced are sequentially restored regardless of which file is the most recent version, which increases image deployment time.

Requirements

• ZENworks 6.5 Desktop Management
  
• ZENworks for Desktops 4.x
  
• Windows 2000, XP

Usage

ENGL ZmgWiz can be run easily from the command line to produce a report for one or more ZENworks image files. The report will automatically be written to zmgwiz.xml.

zmgwiz [/path:<path_wildcard>] [/log[:<path>]] [/?]

zmgwiz

zmgwiz /path:"winxp-base.zmg"

zmgwiz /path:"*.zmg"

Reporting

ENGL ZmgWiz can retrieve virtually all properties from a ZENworks image including the following:

Image properities Name Description Author Comment Chipset Video Network Sound Disk

Partition properities Type Device Volume name

Node properities Partition Instance (number of updated/duplicate entries) Path Size (compressed or uncompressed) File attributes Fileset exclusions Deleted flag

Additionally, the following statistics will be gathered;



Nodes Total files/directories Directories Files Compressed files Uncompressed files Duplicated files/directories Deleted files/directories

Disk space used by: Files/directories Compressed Uncompressed Duplicated Purgable (deleted)

Screen Shots

Figure 1: Single image report



Figure 2: Multiple image report with summary statistics



Figure 3: Scanning an image

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