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Using the vdmutil Utility to Configure the JMS Message Security Mode
You can use the vdmutil command-line interface to configure and manage the security mechanism used
when JMS messages are passed between View components.
Syntax and Location of the Utility
The vdmutil command can perform the same operations as the lmvutil command that was included with
earlier versions of View. In addition, the vdmutil command has options for determining the message
security mode being used and monitoring the progress of changing all View components to Enhanced
mode. Use the following form of the vdmutil command from a Windows command prompt.
vdmutil command_option [additional_option argument] ...
The additional options that you can use depend on the command option. This topic focuses on the options
for message security mode. For the other options, which relate to Cloud Pod Architecture, see the
Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture document.
By default, the path to the vdmutil command executable file is C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware
View\Server\tools\bin. To avoid entering the path on the command line, add the path to your PATH
environment variable.
Authentication
You must run the command as a user who has the Administrators role. You can use View Administrator to
assign the Administrators role to a user. See Chapter 6, “Configuring Role-Based Delegated
Administration,” on page 89.
The vdmutil command includes options to specify the user name, domain, and password to use for
authentication.
Table 2‑5. vdmutil Command Authentication Options
Option Description
--authAs
Name of a View administrator user. Do not use domain\username or user principal name
(UPN) format.
--authDomain Fully qualified domain name for the View administrator user specified in the --authAs
option.
--authPassword Password for the View administrator user specified in the --authAs option. Entering "*"
instead of a password causes the vdmutil command to prompt for the password and does
not leave sensitive passwords in the command history on the command line.
You must use the authentication options with all vdmutil command options except for --help and
--verbose.
Options Specific to JMS Message Security Mode
The following table lists only the vdmutil command-line options that pertain to viewing, setting, or
monitoring the JMS message security mode. For a list of the arguments you can use with a specific option,
use the --help command-line option.
The vdmutil command returns 0 when an operation succeeds and a failure-specific non-zero code when an
operation fails. The vdmutil command writes error messages to standard error. When an operation produces
output, or when verbose logging is enabled by using the --verbose option, the vdmutil command writes
output to standard output, in US English.
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