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Table Of Contents
- Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview
- Installing ADM
- Setting Up ADM
- Securing ADM
- Maintenance
- Upgrading ADM
- Migrating to a New Appliance
- Troubleshooting ADM
- Uninstalling ADM
- Time Zones
- ADM API Tutorial
- Index
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Chapter 3 Setting Up ADM
To configure the appliance role for Collector
1TypeyesattheappliancerolepromptandpressEnter.
2TypetherolenumberandpressEnter.
3Ifyouselect1,youhavetoentertheCollectorIDofyourchoiceandpressEnter.Thedefaultvalueis100.
4TypetheAggregatorIPandpressEnter.
Theapplianceroleis
thencreated.Thisprocessmighttakesometime.
Post-Installation Steps
BeforeyoulogintotheADMconsole,clearthecacheofyourbrowsertopreventthepossibleappearanceof
incorrectinformationinthedisplays,applicationerrors,andothererrormessageswhenopeningtheADM.
Active Directory Configuration
LightweightDirectoryAccessProtocol(LDAP)isaprotocolthathelpsyoutomanageinformationabout
authorizedusersonanetworksuchasnames,phonenumbers,addresses,andaccessrights.LDAPisvendor
andplatformneutralandworksacrossdifferentoperatingsystems.ExamplesofLDAPserversoftwareare
MicrosoftActiveDirectory,Open
LDAP,ApacheDirectoryserver,IBMTivoliDirectoryserver.
ADM6.2.xsupportsuserauthenticationoverLDAP.Currently,ADMcanauthorizeandauthenticateusers
createdinMicrosoftWindows2003andWindows2008ActiveDirectoryServer.
Prerequisites:VMwarerecommendshavingavalidActiveDirectoryserverwithorwithoutSSLenabledin
thesamenetwork
whereADMAggregatororSingle‐boxisdeployedforbetterperformancereasons.
To configure Active Directory
1LogintotheADMasanadministrator.
2 NavigatetoManage>System.
3ClickActiveDirectoryConfiguration.
TheActiveDirectoryConfigurationscreenappears.
4ConfigureActiveDirectory.
Table 3-5. Active Directory Parameters
5 (Optional)IfyouwantActiveDirectorycommunicationtobeencryptedusingSSL,select
EnableSSLand
typethecertificatepassword.
ThedefaultSSLcertificatepasswordischangeit.
6ClickSave.
N
OTETheWindowsActiveCollectorroleisinstalledbyrunninganexecutableasdescribedin“Installing
WindowsCollector”onpage 20.
NOTEAdditionalADMUIadministratorsandthemorelimitedoperatorusersarelaterdefinedbythedefault
ADMadminuser.TheVMwarevCenterApplicationDiscoveryManagerUser’sGuideprovidesmoredetails.
ForeveryupgradeofADMversion,youmustconfiguretheActiveDirectoryserver.Youshouldreconfigure
theActiveDirectoryifadatabaserestoreisperformedontheADMsetup.
Option Description
DomainName Domainnameoftheorganization.Forexample,vmware.com.
ActiveDirectoryServer NameorIPaddressoftheActiveDirectoryserver.
ActiveDirectoryPort PorttoconnecttotheActiveDirectoryserver.