Specifications
Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- Installing and Running View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Computer Information
- Using PCoIP Display Protocol
- Using HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing vCenter Server for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix: The locked.properties File
- Glossary
- Index
View Manager Administration Guide
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Youcandownloadthe.NETFrameworkandviewadditionalinformationaboutthe
ASP.NETIISregistrationtoolfromthefollowinglocations:
http://www.microsoft.com/net
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/k6h9cz8h(VS.80).aspx
ThefollowingproceduremustbecarriedoutbeforeinstallingtheViewComposer
serviceonthenewsystem.
To migrate an RSA key container between systems
1ExporttheRSAkeysassociatedwiththeearlierinstanceoftheViewComposer
fromtheirlocalkeycontainerbyenteringthefollowingfromacommandprompt
onthesourcesystem:
aspnet_regiis -px "SviKeyContainer" "keys.xml" -pri
TheRSApublic‐privatekeypairisexportedfromtheSviKeyContainercontainer
toafilecalledkeys.xmlthatissavedlocallytotheASP.NETIISregistrationtool.
2Copythekeys.xmlfiletothesystemonwhichyouwanttoinstallanewinstance
oftheViewComposerservice.
3Importthekey
pairdataintothelocalkeycontainerbyenteringthefollowingfrom
thecommandpromptonthetargetsystem,where<path>isthepathtothe
exportedfile:
aspnet_regiis -pi "SviKeyContainer" "<path>\keys.xml"
4InstalltheViewComposerserviceusingtheproceduredescribedin“A d d i n g the
ViewComposerServicetovCenterServer”onpage 143andprovidetherequired
informationabouttheexistingdatasource,butselectUsetheexistingRSAkey
containerwhenprompted.
Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
TheSviConfigutilityaccompaniestheViewComposerapplicationandoffers
View ManageradministratorstheabilitytoupgradeorrestoretheViewComposer
database.
ThepathtotheSviConfigexecutablefileis:
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View Composer\sviconfig.exe
ThecommandsdescribedinthissectionareintendedforexperiencedViewComposer
administrators,andareintendedtoresolveissuesrelatingtotheViewComposer
service.