Setting Up for Linux Desktops

installation, and you may hit the ssh connection closed error message, which is expectation"
}
else
{
Write-Host $VMName": Uploaded installer's MD5Sum does NOT match the local installer's
MD5Sum";
Write-Host $VMName": Skip the installation. Please check your network and VMware Tools
status";
exit;
}
}
Disconnect-VIServer $vcAddress -Confirm:$false
exit
Script Execution
The following messages are from an execution of the script:
PowerCLI C:\scripts> .\InstallAgent.ps1
--------------------------------------------------
Accept Linux Horizon Agent EULA in tar bundle ("yes" or "no"): yes
Your vCenter address: 10.117.44.17
Your vCenter admin user name: administrator
Your vCenter admin user password: *******
--------------------------------------------------
Your VM guest OS user name: ViewUser
Your VM guest OS user password: *******
--------------------------------------------------
Type the Horizon Agent tar ball path. Please take care of the installer arch: .\VMware-viewagent-
linux-x86_64-x.y.z-1234567.tar.gz
--------------------------------------------------
Type the View Connection Server address: 10.117.45.93
Type the View Connection Server Admin user name: viewadmin
Please type the View Connection Server Admin user password.
Please note that special character should be escaped. For example, $ should be \$
Your broker admin password: *******
Type the View Connection Server Admin user domain name: domain1
Install the Smartcard redirection feature ("yes" or "no"): no
AD address for Kerberos authentication to register. Please type Enter to skip for MD5 Digest:
10.117.45.1
After the script completes, you can log in to View Administrator and view the Linux desktop machines by
navigating to View Configuration > Registered Machines and clicking the Others tab.
Sample Script to Upload Configuration Files to Linux Virtual Machines
You can customize and use the following sample script to upload the configuration files config and
viewagent-custom.conf to multiple Linux virtual machines (VMs).
To copy and paste the script content without page breaks, use the HTML version of this topic, available
from the Horizon 7 documentation page at https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/view_pubs.html.
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