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3 The encrypted, anonymized information is transmitted to VMware using HTTPS.
You can review the complete list of fields from which data is collected, including which fields are made
anonymous. See “Global View Data Collected by VMware,” on page 106 and the related topics that follow.
Preview Data Collected by the Customer Experience Improvement Program
You can preview the data that VMware would receive before the data is encrypted and transmitted. When
you enable this option, View Connection Server writes the data set to disk instead of encrypting and
sending the data to VMware.
You configure the option to write CEIP data to disk instead of transmitting the data to VMware as a global
option in the View LDAP directory. You use the ADSI Edit utility to modify View LDAP. The ADSI Edit
utility is installed with View Connection Server. When you change View LDAP on a View Connection
Server instance, the change is propagated to all replicated View Connection Server instances.
Procedure
1 Start the ADSI Edit utility on your View Connection Server host.
2 In the Connection Settings dialog box, select or connect to DC=vdi, DC=vmware, DC=int.
3 In the Computer pane, select or type localhost:389 or the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the
View Connection Server host followed by port 389.
For example: localhost:389 or mycomputer.mydomain.com:389
4 On the object CN=Common, OU=Global, OU=Properties, set the pae-ceipDumpOnly attribute value
to 1.
5 Restart View Connection Server.
The CEIP data files are written in plain-text JSON format to the %PROGRAMFILES%\VMware\VMware
View\Server\broker\temp\spool directory on the View Connection Server instance.
What to do next
To revert the setting and begin sending data to VMware, change pae-ceipDumpOnly attribute value to 0
and restart View Connection Server.
Additional Information About the Customer Experience Improvement Program
After you choose to participate in the CEIP, data is collected on the first View Connection Server instance
that starts in a View deployment. Configuration data is collected on a weekly basis. Performance and usage
data is collected on an hourly basis. If your View Connection Server instance does not have access to the
Internet, the information is saved on disk until the next time Internet connectivity is available.
If you choose to participate, you can opt out later. You can join or end your participation at any time by
editing the Send anonymous data to VMware setting in the Product Licensing and Usage page in View
Administrator. In order for the change to take effect, restart each View Connection Server instance in the
environment.
Data collection by the CEIP does not have any negative performance or disk consumption impact on your
View deployment. The information that is collected and sent to VMware is sent to the View Connection
Server instance whether or not the CEIP feature is enabled. By default, enabling the feature can consume a
maximum of 100MB of disk space on the View Connection Server instance to store data before it is sent to
VMware. By default, unsent data that is more than eight days old is discarded.
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