Application Resilience policies for Ziften Zenith

You can activate an Application Resilience policy for Ziften Zenith to collect information about the functional status of Ziften Zenith installed on your Windows devices and view the results in reports. You can also configure the policy to attempt to repair or reinstall the application.

Application Resilience policies for Ziften Zenith policies are supported on devices running:

  • a supported version of the Windows operating system

  • PowerShell version 5.1 or higher

    Due to PowerShell restrictions imposed by Microsoft, Application Resilience isn't supported for this application on devices running Windows 11 SE.

  • one of the following versions of Ziften Zenith:

    • 5.0.6.x

In addition to checking the version, the following table describes the health checks performed:

Report higher versions as Compliant is not available.

Component Test performed
Services Installed Running Signed by
Ziften Service (Ziften.exe) P P Ziften Technologies, Inc.
Registry keys Exists Value name
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ziften P
  • agentGUID
  • disablednscache
  • wuafrequency
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ziften\Ziften P
  • baseurl

  • cert

Files Exists
  • Ziften.zdb
  • Ziften.zdb-shm
  • zdb-wal
  • Ziften.exe
  • Ziften.Proxy.exe
  • Ziften.Broker.xml
P

You can configure an Application Resilience policy for Ziften Zenith to enable the Application Resilience (RAR) component A lightweight software component of the Secure Endpoint Agent that detects the status of third party applications installed on a device. The component may also attempt to repair the third party application if it is non-compliant. The RAR component is deployed on a device only when the device is associated with a customized policy group and that policy group's Application Resilience policy is activated. to attempt to repair Ziften Zenith if it's not functioning, or reinstall it if it's missing or can't be repaired.

Depending on the Absolute product licenses associated with your account, the Report and repair option, and the Report, repair, and reinstall option may not be available.

The RAR component of the Secure Endpoint Agent can respond to the following issues:

Issue Resolution
Repair
The Ziften Service (Ziften.exe) isn't running

The RAR component restarts the service.
The Ziften Service (Ziften.exe) isn't installed and the service's executable can be detected on the device

The RAR component reinstalls the missing service.
Reinstall

Downgrades are not supported. If the version installed on a device is higher than the expected version, no action is taken.
The Ziften Service (Ziften.exe) isn't installed and the service's executable cannot be detected on the device

The RAR component downloads and installs the configured version of the application.

One or more of the following registry keys don't exist:

  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ziften where value=agentGUID
  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ziften where value=disablednscache
  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ziften where value=wuafrequency
  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ziften\Ziften where value=baseurl
  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Ziften\Ziften where value=cert

One or more of the following files don't exist:

  • Ziften.zdb
  • Ziften.zdb-shm
  • zdb-wal
  • Ziften.exe
  • Ziften.Proxy.exe
  • Ziften.Broker.xml
Ziften Zenith failed to be repaired, or the expected version isn't installed

The installer:

  • must be an MSI file

  • can have any file name

The RAR component looks for the following files names when checking pre-cached installers:

Component File name
Installers ZiftenZenith.msi

Before you activate an Application Resilience policy you need to configure the policy.