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You can use VMware and Microsoft command-line tools to import and export LDAP configuration data to
and from View. These command-line tools import and export LDAP configuration data in LDAP Data
Interchange Format (LDIF) configuration files.
This feature is intended for use by advanced administrators who want to perform automatic bulk
configuration operations. To create scripts to update the View configuration, use View PowerCLI.
This section includes the following topics:
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Introduction to LDAP Configuration Data
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Modifying LDAP Configuration Data
Introduction to LDAP Configuration Data
All View configuration data is stored in an LDAP directory. Each View Connection Server standard or
replica instance contains a local LDAP configuration repository and a replication agreement between
each of the View Connection Server instances. This arrangement ensures that changes to one repository
are automatically replicated to all other repositories.
When you use View Administrator to modify the View configuration, the appropriate LDAP data is updated
in the repository. For example, if you add a desktop pool, View stores information about users, user
groups, and entitlements in LDAP. View Connection Server instances manage other LDAP configuration
data automatically, and they use the information in the repository to control View operations.
You can use LDIF configuration files to perform a number of tasks, including transferring configuration
data between View Connection Server instances and backing up your View configuration so that you can
restore the state of a View Connection Server instance.
You can also use LDIF configuration files to define a large number of View objects, such as desktop
pools, and add those objects to your View Connection Server instances without having to use View
Administrator to perform the task manually.
In View 3.1 and later releases, View performs regular backups of the LDAP repository.
LDAP configuration data is transferred as plain ASCII text and conforms to the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF) RFC 2849 standard.
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