Re: Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
Paul Bart <paulb <at> stmarys.qld.edu.au>
2010-11-25 04:59:07 GMT
Thanks Jamie
I have tried all what you mentioned below to no avail. This is the HW rule
the image bundle exists, is enabled and points to a valid image file, I have incremented its number, but
nothing seems to help.
If anything is obvious, please let me know. Also, thanks for the info on menus
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 25/11/2010 at 1:48 PM, CLARKE Jamie <jclar30 <at> eq.edu.au> wrote:
HI Paul,
I sometimes find waiting about a minute or two after setting HW rules and then trying PXE is best (just incase
you tried it a few secs after setting the rule), however also check that the rule is enabled, - check box down
the bottom of rule edit page plus should have enabled listed next to your rule in the Preboot services page,
and that "starts with" is the condition before the digit values of the MAC address. In this trouble
shooting process make sure that it is the only rule filter eg not more then one joined with 'or' 'and'. I
noticed a few days ago I created a new "starts with" MAC rule and found using 6 digits to be a sweet spot with
ZCM, not sure why but you may also want to try doing this instead of 2 or another amount - i guess just trial and error.
Paul if you still have trouble you might want to ditch the starts with rule and put in the 'is equal to' and the
full MAC address of the machine (for testing) to see if something strange is going on and that the rules are
being referenced to begin with.
I have attached my pxmenu.txt file along with the config file of one of the submenu options listing an image.
You need a cfg file for each menu option - this can be explained better by looking at th pxmenu.txt and in
SUBMENU2 you will see the last option is for a vanilla image of a 945GTP based machine which references a
945gtp.cfg (also attached)....in this file you will see the img -rp 945gtpwinxpsp3.zmg command which is
basically requesting the zmg image file from the imaging proxy....just change these to suit your needs
and naming of your *.zmg files.
:) hope this helps...
Jamie Clarke
Certified Novell Engineer 6, B.Ed(IT & HPE), OC
Sunnybank State High School
Ph 3323 8127 Fax 3323 8100
http://www.sunnybanhshs.eq.edu.au
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[mailto:novellschools-bounces <at> lists.redlands.qld.edu.au] On Behalf Of Paul Bart
Sent: Thursday, 25 November 2010 1:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
HI Jamie
Thanks again for the info. I have created the hardware rule, that was OK. I have assigned the imaging bundle,
just to be sure I have only used the first 2 characters of the MAC address. However when the machine starts
from the PXE it checks for work and then exits.
Obviously I am missing something. I have checked all the assignments of bundles etc, and seem ok.
I would appreciate the submenu examples too.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 25/11/2010 at 9:59 AM, CLARKE Jamie <jclar30 <at> eq.edu.au> wrote:
HI Paul,
My plan of action with a new workstation is to obviously make the image for them, then either:
1) Make a MAC HW Rule (usually with the first 6 digits)with the new image bundle assigned (preferred)
or 2) Load up PXE menu - Imaging Maintenance then 'img' at bash prompt and manually dump image using the menus (rarely)
Other option is to edit the pxe menu and add another submenu that you can list the images that you want to dump
(I also do this) - can send examples if you require.
Once the new machines have the image dumped on them as above I then use the MOE joiner (EQ schools only) to add
the workstation to AD, name it etc and part of that process is then to install the Zen agent (at this stage the
workstation is then visible in ZCC - I know you can have the agent in the image but I dont like doing that)
After this I can then manage the device (remote control, imaging etc all from ZCC).
Personally I dont like doing much with the ZISD manually (sometimes the GUID gets out of wack and I clear it -
the GUID is important as this is how ZCM id`s the computer for imaging as outlined in ZCC)
Jamie Clarke
Certified Novell Engineer 6, B.Ed(IT & HPE), OC
Sunnybank State High School
Ph 3323 8127 Fax 3323 8100
http://www.sunnybanhshs.eq.edu.au
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[mailto:novellschools-bounces <at> lists.redlands.qld.edu.au] On Behalf Of Paul Bart
Sent: Thursday, 25 November 2010 8:21 AM
To: 'Novell Schools'
Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
Hi Guys
Well thank you all for you contributions. I am sure it has helped to shorten the time to "discover" all those
features myself. I am nearly there, just one last bit remains unclear. I have a new workstation with a
formatted HD. I boot to PXE, Ctrl Alt delete gets to the menu, I use the Imaging Maintenance option to get to
tha bash prompt. Zisedit allows me to enter the various parameters. I can then discover the workstation,
but I cannot assign it an imaging task, as it was not "deployed". I know, Jamie said that can happen
automatically, but at this stage I could not find.
On a separate note, I had a meeting with my tech guys and we have decided to stay with Ghost for at least another
year. Whilst I am sure we are just about there, in terms of imaging we felt that with the move to W7,
deployment of another year level of laptops, taking the numbers to 906 next years, moving a number of
services to Windows servers, we better keep something to what we know well.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 24/11/2010 at 9:06 AM, CLARKE Jamie <jclar30 <at> eq.edu.au> wrote:
Hi John
Thats correct only for new machines or HDD replacements - yes the ZISD works for those machines being
re-imaged and have already been registered into the ZCM Zone eg. their name etc is stored in the ISD aread of
the disk.
Jamie Clarke
Certified Novell Engineer 6, B.Ed(IT & HPE), OC
Sunnybank State High School
Ph 3323 8127 Fax 3323 8100
http://www.sunnybanhshs.eq.edu.au
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Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
Hey Jamie,
Can you please clarify why the bash script is used for rename? You say that its for a workstation rename after
being imaged, I can't see why there is a need for this? Maybe if it was to get the identity into the management
DB if one did not already exist, ie they are all newly procured machines??
I have not used ZCM yet, but from my reading of the doco so far, the concept of image-safe data on the HDD still
exists. The ZENWorks Imaging Agent that runs with Windows detects a just imaged flag set, and restores the
image-safe data consisting of NetBIOS name and eDir (or ZCM's db) identities to the the loaded operating
system instance.
BTW, Paul, this was a huge advantage I found coming here with ZfD Imaging over Ghost when having computer
identities existing in eDir. The problems we used to face when we did it with Ghost involving SID change,
Ghost Client machine rename, "zwsreg.exe -unreg", "zwsreg.exe" to get the golden master's image
identity out of the registry, and then to get the post-image identity back in goes completely away when
using all the Novell tools instead.
John
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>>> CLARKE Jamie 11/23/10 3:33 PM >>>
Hi Paul & list,
:) Since MOE I dont really have to worry too much about that issue, I`m assuming you want to assign a
workstation name after re-image.
I know when I did my ZEN course there were a few BCC people and they use to achieve this via the imaging scripts
setup (action set in the imaging bundle)and it would be done just after the imaging completed (its a bash
script). eg a script with MAC to Wks name I think it was.
We have something similar here but is achieved via a xml script (EQ MOE did it for us - not done by me). However I
must admint imaging scripts are a black art and when I went searching about a year ago I couldnt find out much.
Heres an example we were given in the course although I`m kicking myself as I lost the names.csv example
which I believe was just the MAC to Workstation name conversion
#!/bin/bash
# Get a list from the server tftp server
tftp $TFTPIP -c get names.csv
dos2unix -n names.csv linuxnames.csv
# Get the mac address
MACADDRESS=$(ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr | awk '{print $5}' | tr -d :)
# Find the name from the file
NEWNAME=$(cat linuxnames.csv | grep -i $MACADDRESS | cut -d"," -f2)
zisedit ComputerName=$NEWNAME
You would simply add that as an imaging script action in your imaging bundle....sorry but havent used the
above but maybe you could get it working :)
Hope I have helped....you can see zisedit is simply used to assign the name at the end.
Jamie Clarke
Certified Novell Engineer 6, B.Ed(IT & HPE), OC
Sunnybank State High School
Ph 3323 8127 Fax 3323 8100
http://www.sunnybanhshs.eq.edu.au
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[mailto:novellschools-bounces <at> lists.redlands.qld.edu.au] On Behalf Of Paul Bart
Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2010 2:52 PM
To: 'Novell Schools'
Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
Hi Jamie
Thank you for the kind offer, I will. I have ZEN 10SP3, I have installed couple of weeks ago. I can deploy
bundles, got PXE going and I have managed to take an image of both XP and W7 workstation. I have also managed
to multicast an image, so that is all good.
I am not able to find out where you would apply configurations in a way Ghost does it. I.e. to change the
computer name etc.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 23/11/2010 at 9:20 AM, CLARKE Jamie <jclar30 <at> eq.edu.au> wrote:
You must of missed my post ;) Michael beat you to it LOL.
Paul feel free to post your ZEN10 questions to the list if you have dramas,
I know some of us on the list run ZCM10.
Jamie Clarke
Certified Novell Engineer 6, B.Ed(IT & HPE), OC
Sunnybank State High School
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http://www.sunnybanhshs.eq.edu.au
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[mailto:novellschools-bounces <at> lists.redlands.qld.edu.au] On Behalf Of
Michael Mollard
Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2010 9:03 AM
To: novellschools <at> lists.redlands.qld.edu.au
Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows
7
Here's something that should start some discussion:
http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-attachmate-
corporation
Michael Mollard
Network Administrator
Moreton Bay College
mollardm <at> mbc.qld.edu.au
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>>> "Paul Bart" <paulb <at> stmarys.qld.edu.au> 23/11/2010 9:00 AM >>>
Wow 5 posts in a day, the silence has been deafening of late :(
And yes, I would not mind that link either. Given that I am struggling with
migration to ZEN 10, potentially ZEN imaging (ghost currently is getting
rather expensive given I will have close to 900 devices next
year) and trying to develop some strategy for a full W7 rollout at the start
of the year.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 23/11/2010 at 8:51 AM, "Michael Mollard"
<MollardM <at> mbc.qld.edu.au> wrote:
If you get a decent link, could you share it? I'd be interested as well.
>>> "Paul Bart" <paulb <at> stmarys.qld.edu.au> 23/11/2010 8:49 AM >>>
Hi John
If you e-mail Que Mangus qmangus <at> grouplink.net he will give you a link I am
sure. I got some from him earlier.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 23/11/2010 at 8:16 AM, "John Neumann"
<JNeumann <at> aquinas.qld.edu.au> wrote:
Hi guys,
Novell recently had a really decent looking online event as per the subject
of this message.
As usual it was held at 3am AEST and therefore I missed it. They have
promised an archived version, though.
My problem is that the support at Novell's web delivery partner for this
appear to be totally incompetent and keep giving me links to other
organisations' online events instead. Does anyone on here have the link to
the archived version of this event?
https://www.techwebonlineevents.com/ars/eventregistration.do?mode=eventreg&F
=1002620&K=reminder&tab=overview
Thanks,
John
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Aquinas College, Ashmore
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Thanks Jamie
I have tried all what you mentioned below to no avail. This is the HW rule
the image bundle exists, is enabled and points to a valid image file, I have incremented its number, but
nothing seems to help.
If anything is obvious, please let me know. Also, thanks for the info on menus
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 25/11/2010 at 1:48 PM, CLARKE Jamie <jclar30 <at> eq.edu.au> wrote:
HI Paul,
I sometimes find waiting about a minute or two after setting HW rules and then trying PXE is best (just incase
you tried it a few secs after setting the rule), however also check that the rule is enabled, - check box down
the bottom of rule edit page plus should have enabled listed next to your rule in the Preboot services page,
and that "starts with" is the condition before the digit values of the MAC address. In this trouble
shooting process make sure that it is the only rule filter eg not more then one joined with 'or' 'and'. I
noticed a few days ago I created a new "starts with" MAC rule and found using 6 digits to be a sweet spot with
ZCM, not sure why but you may also want to try doing this instead of 2 or another amount - i guess just trial and error.
Paul if you still have trouble you might want to ditch the starts with rule and put in the 'is equal to' and the
full MAC address of the machine (for testing) to see if something strange is going on and that the rules are
being referenced to begin with.
I have attached my pxmenu.txt file along with the config file of one of the submenu options listing an image.
You need a cfg file for each menu option - this can be explained better by looking at th pxmenu.txt and in
SUBMENU2 you will see the last option is for a vanilla image of a 945GTP based machine which references a
945gtp.cfg (also attached)....in this file you will see the img -rp 945gtpwinxpsp3.zmg command which is
basically requesting the zmg image file from the imaging proxy....just change these to suit your needs
and naming of your *.zmg files.
:) hope this helps...
Jamie Clarke
Certified Novell Engineer 6, B.Ed(IT & HPE), OC
Sunnybank State High School
Ph 3323 8127 Fax 3323 8100
http://www.sunnybanhshs.eq.edu.au
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[mailto:novellschools-bounces <at> lists.redlands.qld.edu.au] On Behalf Of Paul Bart
Sent: Thursday, 25 November 2010 1:21 PM
To: 'Novell Schools'
Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
HI Jamie
Thanks again for the info. I have created the hardware rule, that was OK. I have assigned the imaging bundle,
just to be sure I have only used the first 2 characters of the MAC address. However when the machine starts
from the PXE it checks for work and then exits.
Obviously I am missing something. I have checked all the assignments of bundles etc, and seem ok.
I would appreciate the submenu examples too.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 25/11/2010 at 9:59 AM, CLARKE Jamie <jclar30 <at> eq.edu.au> wrote:
HI Paul,
My plan of action with a new workstation is to obviously make the image for them, then either:
1) Make a MAC HW Rule (usually with the first 6 digits)with the new image bundle assigned (preferred)
or 2) Load up PXE menu - Imaging Maintenance then 'img' at bash prompt and manually dump image using the menus (rarely)
Other option is to edit the pxe menu and add another submenu that you can list the images that you want to dump
(I also do this) - can send examples if you require.
Once the new machines have the image dumped on them as above I then use the MOE joiner (EQ schools only) to add
the workstation to AD, name it etc and part of that process is then to install the Zen agent (at this stage the
workstation is then visible in ZCC - I know you can have the agent in the image but I dont like doing that)
After this I can then manage the device (remote control, imaging etc all from ZCC).
Personally I dont like doing much with the ZISD manually (sometimes the GUID gets out of wack and I clear it -
the GUID is important as this is how ZCM id`s the computer for imaging as outlined in ZCC)
Jamie Clarke
Certified Novell Engineer 6, B.Ed(IT & HPE), OC
Sunnybank State High School
Ph 3323 8127 Fax 3323 8100
http://www.sunnybanhshs.eq.edu.au
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[mailto:novellschools-bounces <at> lists.redlands.qld.edu.au] On Behalf Of Paul Bart
Sent: Thursday, 25 November 2010 8:21 AM
To: 'Novell Schools'
Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
Hi Guys
Well thank you all for you contributions. I am sure it has helped to shorten the time to "discover" all those
features myself. I am nearly there, just one last bit remains unclear. I have a new workstation with a
formatted HD. I boot to PXE, Ctrl Alt delete gets to the menu, I use the Imaging Maintenance option to get to
tha bash prompt. Zisedit allows me to enter the various parameters. I can then discover the workstation,
but I cannot assign it an imaging task, as it was not "deployed". I know, Jamie said that can happen
automatically, but at this stage I could not find.
On a separate note, I had a meeting with my tech guys and we have decided to stay with Ghost for at least another
year. Whilst I am sure we are just about there, in terms of imaging we felt that with the move to W7,
deployment of another year level of laptops, taking the numbers to 906 next years, moving a number of
services to Windows servers, we better keep something to what we know well.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 24/11/2010 at 9:06 AM, CLARKE Jamie <jclar30 <at> eq.edu.au> wrote:
Hi John
Thats correct only for new machines or HDD replacements - yes the ZISD works for those machines being
re-imaged and have already been registered into the ZCM Zone eg. their name etc is stored in the ISD aread of
the disk.
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Sunnybank State High School
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[mailto:novellschools-bounces <at> lists.redlands.qld.edu.au] On Behalf Of John Neumann
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Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
Hey Jamie,
Can you please clarify why the bash script is used for rename? You say that its for a workstation rename after
being imaged, I can't see why there is a need for this? Maybe if it was to get the identity into the management
DB if one did not already exist, ie they are all newly procured machines??
I have not used ZCM yet, but from my reading of the doco so far, the concept of image-safe data on the HDD still
exists. The ZENWorks Imaging Agent that runs with Windows detects a just imaged flag set, and restores the
image-safe data consisting of NetBIOS name and eDir (or ZCM's db) identities to the the loaded operating
system instance.
BTW, Paul, this was a huge advantage I found coming here with ZfD Imaging over Ghost when having computer
identities existing in eDir. The problems we used to face when we did it with Ghost involving SID change,
Ghost Client machine rename, "zwsreg.exe -unreg", "zwsreg.exe" to get the golden master's image
identity out of the registry, and then to get the post-image identity back in goes completely away when
using all the Novell tools instead.
John
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>>> CLARKE Jamie 11/23/10 3:33 PM >>>
Hi Paul & list,
:) Since MOE I dont really have to worry too much about that issue, I`m assuming you want to assign a
workstation name after re-image.
I know when I did my ZEN course there were a few BCC people and they use to achieve this via the imaging scripts
setup (action set in the imaging bundle)and it would be done just after the imaging completed (its a bash
script). eg a script with MAC to Wks name I think it was.
We have something similar here but is achieved via a xml script (EQ MOE did it for us - not done by me). However I
must admint imaging scripts are a black art and when I went searching about a year ago I couldnt find out much.
Heres an example we were given in the course although I`m kicking myself as I lost the names.csv example
which I believe was just the MAC to Workstation name conversion
#!/bin/bash
# Get a list from the server tftp server
tftp $TFTPIP -c get names.csv
dos2unix -n names.csv linuxnames.csv
# Get the mac address
MACADDRESS=$(ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr | awk '{print $5}' | tr -d :)
# Find the name from the file
NEWNAME=$(cat linuxnames.csv | grep -i $MACADDRESS | cut -d"," -f2)
zisedit ComputerName=$NEWNAME
You would simply add that as an imaging script action in your imaging bundle....sorry but havent used the
above but maybe you could get it working :)
Hope I have helped....you can see zisedit is simply used to assign the name at the end.
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Sunnybank State High School
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[mailto:novellschools-bounces <at> lists.redlands.qld.edu.au] On Behalf Of Paul Bart
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To: 'Novell Schools'
Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows 7
Hi Jamie
Thank you for the kind offer, I will. I have ZEN 10SP3, I have installed couple of weeks ago. I can deploy
bundles, got PXE going and I have managed to take an image of both XP and W7 workstation. I have also managed
to multicast an image, so that is all good.
I am not able to find out where you would apply configurations in a way Ghost does it. I.e. to change the
computer name etc.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 23/11/2010 at 9:20 AM, CLARKE Jamie <jclar30 <at> eq.edu.au> wrote:
You must of missed my post ;) Michael beat you to it LOL.
Paul feel free to post your ZEN10 questions to the list if you have dramas,
I know some of us on the list run ZCM10.
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[mailto:novellschools-bounces <at> lists.redlands.qld.edu.au] On Behalf Of
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Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2010 9:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [NovellSchools] Online Virtual Event - Relax: It's only Windows
7
Here's something that should start some discussion:
http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-agrees-to-be-acquired-by-attachmate-
corporation
Michael Mollard
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Moreton Bay College
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>>> "Paul Bart" <paulb <at> stmarys.qld.edu.au> 23/11/2010 9:00 AM >>>
Wow 5 posts in a day, the silence has been deafening of late :(
And yes, I would not mind that link either. Given that I am struggling with
migration to ZEN 10, potentially ZEN imaging (ghost currently is getting
rather expensive given I will have close to 900 devices next
year) and trying to develop some strategy for a full W7 rollout at the start
of the year.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 23/11/2010 at 8:51 AM, "Michael Mollard"
<MollardM <at> mbc.qld.edu.au> wrote:
If you get a decent link, could you share it? I'd be interested as well.
>>> "Paul Bart" <paulb <at> stmarys.qld.edu.au> 23/11/2010 8:49 AM >>>
Hi John
If you e-mail Que Mangus qmangus <at> grouplink.net he will give you a link I am
sure. I got some from him earlier.
Cheers
Paul
>>> On 23/11/2010 at 8:16 AM, "John Neumann"
<JNeumann <at> aquinas.qld.edu.au> wrote:
Hi guys,
Novell recently had a really decent looking online event as per the subject
of this message.
As usual it was held at 3am AEST and therefore I missed it. They have
promised an archived version, though.
My problem is that the support at Novell's web delivery partner for this
appear to be totally incompetent and keep giving me links to other
organisations' online events instead. Does anyone on here have the link to
the archived version of this event?
https://www.techwebonlineevents.com/ars/eventregistration.do?mode=eventreg&F
=1002620&K=reminder&tab=overview
Thanks,
John
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Aquinas College, Ashmore
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>>> CLARKE Jamie <jclar30 <at> eq.edu.au> 23/11/2010 9:20 AM >>>
You must of missed my post ;) Michael beat you to it LOL.
Paul feel free to post your ZEN10 questions to the list if you have dramas,
I know some of us on the list run ZCM10.
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