When using ZCM for configuration management of servers, we often are faced with the challenge of pushing a configuration change affecting multiple hosts *in sequence*.
Among our typical use cases:
- reconfiguration of a monitoring agent on a group of machines leading to the necessity of modifying the monitoring server's configuration
- configuration changes on a single machine requiring changes in Active Directory (group memeberships, Dfs configuration) or on separate resource servers (share creation, database creation, ACL or firewall rule modification)

A full-blown workflow engine with access to ZCM object states, variables, own process states, conditionals and process steps would certainly do the trick, but is not strictly necessary. Even the ability to predefine, save and run a sequence of quick tasks where each of the tasks could be targeted against a different set of machines would help a lot already.

by: Denis J. | over a year ago | ZENworks Control Center