Administration

Maintaining View Components 8
To keep your View components available and running, you can perform a variety of maintenance tasks.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Backing Up and Restoring View Conguration Data,” on page 127
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“Monitor View Components,” on page 135
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“Monitor Machine Status,” on page 135
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“Understanding View Services,” on page 136
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“Change the Product License Key,” on page 138
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“Monitoring Product License Usage,” on page 138
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“Update General User Information from Active Directory,” on page 139
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“Migrate View Composer to Another Machine,” on page 140
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“Update the Certicates on a View Connection Server Instance, Security Server, or View Composer,”
on page 145
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“Information Collected by the Customer Experience Improvement Program,” on page 146
Backing Up and Restoring View Configuration Data
You can back up your View and View Composer conguration data by scheduling or running automatic
backups in View Administrator. You can restore your View conguration by manually importing the
backed-up View LDAP les and View Composer database les.
You can use the backup and restore features to preserve and migrate View conguration data.
Backing Up View Connection Server and View Composer Data
After you complete the initial conguration of View Connection Server, you should schedule regular
backups of your View and View Composer conguration data. You can preserve your View and View
Composer data by using View Administrator.
View stores View Connection Server conguration data in the View LDAP repository. View Composer
stores conguration data for linked-clone desktops in the View Composer database.
When you use View Administrator to perform backups, View backs up the View LDAP conguration data
and View Composer database. Both sets of backup les are stored in the same location. The View LDAP
data is exported in encrypted LDAP data interchange format (LDIF). For a description of View LDAP, see
“View LDAP Directory,” on page 40.
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