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Table Of Contents
- VMware Horizon View Installation
- Contents
- VMware Horizon View Installation
- System Requirements for Server Components
- System Requirements for Guest Operating Systems
- Preparing Active Directory
- Configuring Domains and Trust Relationships
- Creating an OU for View Desktops
- Creating OUs and Groups for Kiosk Mode Client Accounts
- Creating Groups for View Users
- Creating a User Account for vCenter Server
- Create a User Account for View Composer
- Configure the Restricted Groups Policy
- Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Prepare Active Directory for Smart Card Authentication
- Installing View Composer
- Installing View Connection Server
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installation Prerequisites for View Connection Server
- Install View Connection Server with a New Configuration
- Install a Replicated Instance of View Connection Server
- Configure a Security Server Pairing Password
- Install a Security Server
- Firewall Rules for View Connection Server
- Reinstall View Connection Server with a Backup Configuration
- Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
- Uninstalling View Products Silently by Using MSI Command-Line Options
- Installing View Transfer Server
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Understanding SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Overview of Tasks for Setting Up SSL Certificates
- Obtaining a Signed SSL Certificate from a CA
- Configure View Connection Server, Security Server, or View Composer to Use a New SSL Certificate
- Configure View Clients to Trust Root and Intermediate Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Revocation Checking on Server Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Checking in View Client for Windows
- Configure the PCoIP Secure Gateway to Use a New SSL Certificate
- View Transfer Server and SSL Certificates
- Setting View Administrator to Trust a vCenter Server or View Composer Certificate
- Benefits of Using SSL Certificates Signed by a CA
- Configuring View for the First Time
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Where to Use the vCenter Server User and Domain User for View Composer
- Configure a vCenter Server User for View Manager, View Composer, and Local Mode
- View Manager Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- View Composer Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Local Mode Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
- View Administrator and View Connection Server
- Log In to View Administrator
- Install the View Connection Server License Key
- Add vCenter Server Instances to View Manager
- Configure View Composer Settings
- Configure View Composer Domains
- Allow vSphere to Reclaim Disk Space in Linked-Clone Virtual Machines
- Configure View Storage Accelerator for vCenter Server
- Concurrent Operations Limits for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Setting a Concurrent Power Operations Rate to Support View Desktop Logon Storms
- Accept the Thumbprint of a Default SSL Certificate
- Configuring View Client Connections
- Replacing Default Ports for View Services
- Replace the Default HTTP Ports or NICs for View Connection Server Instances and Security Servers
- Replace the Default Ports or NICs for the PCoIP Secure Gateway on View Connection Server Instances and on Security Servers
- Replace the Default Port for View Composer
- Replace the Default Ports for View Transfer Server
- Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Adding the View Desktops Plug-in to the vSphere Web Client
- Configuring Event Reporting
- Index
Configuring Event Reporting 10
You can create an event database to record information about View Manager events. In addition, if you use
a Syslog server, you can configure View Connection Server to send events to a Syslog server or create a flat
file of events written in Syslog format.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Add a Database and Database User for View Events,” on page 121
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“Prepare an SQL Server Database for Event Reporting,” on page 122
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“Configure the Event Database,” on page 123
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“Configure Event Logging for Syslog Servers,” on page 124
Add a Database and Database User for View Events
You create an event database by adding it to an existing database server. You can then use enterprise
reporting software to analyze the events in the database.
The database server for the event database can reside on a View Connection Server host itself or on a
dedicated server. Alternatively, you can use a suitable existing database server, such as a server that hosts a
View Composer database.
NOTE You do not need to create an ODBC data source for this database.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have a supported Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database server on a system that a
View Connection Server instance has access to. For a list of supported database versions, see “Database
Requirements for View Composer,” on page 10.
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Verify that you have the required database privileges to create a database and user on the database
server.
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If you are not familiar with the procedure to create databases on Microsoft SQL Server database servers,
review the steps in “Add a View Composer Database to SQL Server,” on page 30.
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If you are not familiar with the procedure to create databases on Oracle database servers, review the
steps in “Add a View Composer Database to Oracle 11g or 10g,” on page 32.
Procedure
1 Add a new database to the server and give it a descriptive name such as ViewEvents.
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