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Examples
Disable generating View events in Syslog format.
vdmadmin -I -eventSyslog -disable
Direct Syslog output of View events to the local system only.
vdmadmin -I -eventSyslog -enable -localOnly
Direct Syslog output of View events to a specified path.
vdmadmin -I -eventSyslog -enable -path
path
Direct Syslog output of View events to a specified path that requires access by an authorized domain user.
vdmadmin -I -eventSyslog -enable -path \\logserver\share\ViewEvents -user mydomain\myuser
-password mypassword
Assigning Dedicated Desktops Using the -L Option
You can use the vdmadmin command with the -L option to assign desktops from a dedicated pool to users.
Syntax
vdmadmin -L [-b
authentication_arguments ] -d desktop -m machine -u domain \ user
vdmadmin -L [-b authentication_arguments ] -d desktop [-m machine | -u domain \ user ] -r
Usage Notes
View Manager assigns desktops to users when they first connect to a dedicated desktop pool. Under some
circumstances, you might want to preassign desktops to users. For example, you might want to prepare their
system environments in advance of their initial connection. After a user connects to a desktop that View
Manager assigns from a dedicated pool, that desktop remains assigned to the user for the life span of the
desktop source. You can assign a user to a single virtual machine in a dedicated pool.
You can assign a desktop to any entitled user. You might want to do this when recovering from the loss of
View LDAP data on a View Connection Server instance, or when you want to change ownership of a particular
desktop source.
After a user connects to a desktop that View Manager assigns from a dedicated pool, that desktop remains
assigned to the user for the life span of the desktop source. You might want to remove the assignment of a
desktop to a user who has left the organization, who no longer requires access to the desktop, or who will use
a desktop in a different desktop pool. You can also remove assignments for all users who access a desktop
pool.
NOTE The vdmadmin -L command does not assign ownership to View Composer persistent disks. To assign
linked-clone desktops with persistent disks to users, use the Assign User menu option in View Administrator
or the View PowerCLI Update-UserOwnership cmdlet.
If you do use vdmadmin -L to assign a linked-clone desktop with a persistent disk to a user, unexpected results
can occur in certain situations. For example, if you detach a persistent disk and use it to recreate a desktop, the
recreated desktop is not assigned to the owner of the original desktop.
Options
Table 17-9 shows the options that you can specify to assign a desktop to a user or to remove an assignment.
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