The RHEL support is limited to version 7 GA ("Service Pack 0"). While RHEL 7.1 has shipped in 2015-03 and RHEL 7.2 in 2015-11, the Zenworks 11.4.2 update which has been released in 2016-05 is still lacking support for these releases and 7.1/7.2 machines are denying registration in the zone after agent installation.
We are currently "fixing" this by forcing the /etc/os-release and /etc/redhat-release files to reflect old (and incorrect) RHEL versions, but this is obviously breaking supportability of the systems.
This looks very much like a job comprising merely of testing / QA, maybe filing a marginal number of bugs and updating the ostargets.xml to reflect the new versions.
by: Denis J. | over a year ago | Supportability
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Note that RHEL 7.3 Beta has been released on 2016-08, so we might be seeing 7.3 within 2-3 months as well.
People asking for RHEL 7.1 and 7.2 to be supported as a managed device in ZCM forums: https://forums.novell.com/showthread.php/497742-11-4-1-manage-Rad-Hat-7-1-and-7-2-systems
This seems to have been fixed with Zenworks 2017, where minor / service pack versions no longer appear as matching criteria in zenworks-registration/ostargets.xml:
<ostarget>
<name>rhel-7-x86_64</name>
<product_name>Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7</product_name>
<version>7</version>
<arch>x86_64</arch>
<vendor>RedHat</vendor>
<pkgmgr>rpm</pkgmgr>
<primary_role>Server</primary_role>
<detect>
<file source="/etc/redhat-release" substring="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7"/>
</detect>
</ostarget>
No support for RHEL 8 or 8.1.
We have to use 7.7 to be able to get our Linux Workstation ZENworks managed. Support for these platforms should get integrated in ZCM at a faster pace.