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Specifiesthelevelofdetailforperformancestatisticscollection.Legalvaluesare
minimal,typical,andfull.Thedefaultisfull.
Specifieshowoften,inseconds,VirtualCenterchecksifanyscheduledtasksare
readytobeexecutedoralarmsshouldbetriggered.Thedefaultis5seconds.
Verifiesthatallusersand
groupsknowntoVirtualCentercurrentlyexistin
Windows.Forexample,ifuserSmithisassignedpermissionsandinthedomain
theuser’snameissubsequentlychangedtoSmith2,VirtualCenterconcludesthat
Smithnolongerexistsandremovespermissionsforthatuser.
See“A b o u t CollectionIntervalsandCollectionLevels”onpage 282.
 RuntimeSettings–ViewtheuniqueruntimesettingsfortheVirtualCenter
installation.ThisincludestheVirtualCenteruniqueIDnumberandthe
VirtualCenterTCP/IPportnumber.
GeneratesuniqueMACaddressesandUUIDsforvirtualmachines.Insomecases,
itispossibletohavemorethanoneVirtualCenterrunninginthesamecompany.
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EachoftheseVirtualCenterServersmusthaveitsownuniqueidentification.By
default,anIDvalueisgeneratedrandomly.However,thisvalueiseditable.The
onlyrequirementisthatitbeauniquenumberfrom0to63.
SpecifiestheportthroughwhichaVirtualCenterclientsendsdatatothe
VirtualCenter
Server.
See“ConfiguringVirtualCenterCommunication”onpage 76.
 ActiveDirectory–Specifytheactivedirectorytimeout,maximumnumberofusers
andgroupstodisplayintheAddPermissionsdialogbox,andthefrequencyfor
performingasynchronizationandvalidationofVirtualCenter’sknownusersand
groups.
SpecifiesthemaximumnumberofusersandgroupstheVirtualCenterstoresfrom
theselected
domain.Tospecifynomaximumlimit,enterzero(0).
Specifies,inseconds,themaximumtimeVirtualCenterallowsthesearchto runon
theselecteddomain.Searchingverylargedomainscantakeaverylongtime.This
valuemustbegreaterthanzero(0).
SeeChapter 17,“ManagingUsers,Groups,Permissions,andRoles,”
onpage 261.
 Mail–SpecifytheSMTPserverandmailaccount.
See“ManagingEvents”onpage 307.
 SNMP–SpecifytheSNMPreceiverURLs,ports,andcommunitystrings.
See“A b o u t SNMPandVMwareInfrastructure”onpage 83.