Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Getting Started with VCM
- Installing and Getting Started with VCM Tools
- Configuring VMware Cloud Infrastructure
- Virtual Environments Configuration
- Configure Virtual Environments Collections
- Configure Managing Agent Machines for Virtual Environment Management
- Obtain the SSL Certificate Thumbprint
- Configure vCenter Server Data Collections
- Configure vCenter Server Virtual Machine Collections
- Configure vCloud Director Collections
- Configure vCloud Director vApp Virtual Machines Collections
- Configure vShield Manager Collections
- Configure ESX Service Console OS Collections
- Configure the vSphere Client VCM Plug-In
- Running Compliance for the VMware Cloud Infrastructure
- Create and Run Virtual Environment Compliance Templates
- Create Virtual Environment Compliance Rule Groups
- Create and Test Virtual Environment Compliance Rules
- Create and Test Virtual Environment Compliance Filters
- Preview Virtual Environment Compliance Rule Groups
- Create Virtual Environment Compliance Templates
- Run Virtual Environment Compliance Templates
- Create Virtual Environment Compliance Exceptions
- Resolve Noncompliant Virtual Environments Template Results
- Configure Alerts and Schedule Virtual Environment Compliance Runs
- Configuring vCenter Operations Manager Integration
- Auditing Security Changes in Your Environment
- Configuring Windows Machines
- Configure Windows Machines
- Windows Collection Results
- Getting Started with Windows Custom Information
- Prerequisites to Collect Windows Custom Information
- Using PowerShell Scripts for WCI Collections
- Windows Custom Information Change Management
- Collecting Windows Custom Information
- Create Your Own WCI PowerShell Collection Script
- Verify that Your Custom PowerShell Script is Valid
- Install PowerShell
- Collect Windows Custom Information Data
- Run the Script-Based Collection Filter
- View Windows Custom Information Job Status Details
- Windows Custom Information Collection Results
- Run Windows Custom Information Reports
- Troubleshooting Custom PowerShell Scripts
- Configuring Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X Machines
- Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X Machine Management
- Linux, UNIX, or Mac OS X Installation Credentials
- Configure Collections from Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X Machines
- Configure Installation Delegate Machines to Install Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X...
- Configure the HTTPS Bypass Setting for Linux Agent Installations
- Enable Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X Agent Installation
- Add and License Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X Machines for Agent Installation
- Install the VCM Agent on Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X Operating Systems
- Collect Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X Data
- Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X Collection Results
- Configure Scheduled Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X Collections
- Patching Managed Machines
- Patch Assessment and Deployment
- Prerequisite Tasks and Requirements
- Manually Patching Managed Machines
- Getting Started with VCM Manual Patching
- Configuring An Automated Patch Deployment Environment
- Deploying Patches with Automated Patch Assessment and Deployment
- Configure VCM for Automatic Event-Driven Patch Assessment and Deployment
- Generate a Patch Assessment Template
- Run a Patch Assessment on Managed Machines
- Add Exceptions for Patching Managed Machines
- Configure the VCM Administration Settings
- Generate a Patch Deployment Mapping
- Configure VCM for Automatic Scheduled Patch Assessment and Deployment
- How the Linux and UNIX Patch Staging Works
- How the Linux and UNIX Patching Job Chain Works
- How the Deploy Action Works
- Patch Deployment Wizards
- Running Patching Reports
- Running and Enforcing Compliance
- Provisioning Physical or Virtual Machine Operating Systems
- Provisioning Software on Managed Machines
- Using Package Studio to Create Software Packages and Publish to Repositories
- Software Repository for Windows
- Package Manager for Windows
- Software Provisioning Component Relationships
- Install the Software Provisioning Components
- Using Package Studio to Create Software Packages and Publish to Repositories
- Using VCM Software Provisioning for Windows
- Related Software Provisioning Actions
- Configuring Active Directory Environments
- Configuring Remote Machines
- Tracking Unmanaged Hardware and Software Asset Data
- Managing Changes with Service Desk Integration
- Index
Icon Status Description
Incorrect
MD5
MD5 Hash generated from the patch signature (PLS) file, which contains
the content and signature, does not match the expected value on the Linux
or UNIX managed machine. Be aware that MD5 is NOT validated against
the vendor MD5 hash data.
Patch
Status
Unknown
Patch status of the managed machine cannot be determined.
Not
patched
by
exception
If patch assessment results conform to the patching exception definition,
VCM does not patch the managed machine, and changes the results from
not patched to patched. The exception can be temporary or permanent.
Patched
by
exception
If patch assessment results conform to the patching exception definition,
VCM patches the managed machine and updates the results to patched.
The exception can be temporary or permanent.
Patch not
applicable
If patch assessment results conform to the patching exception definition,
VCM does not patch the managed machine, and changes the results from
not patched to patched. The exception can be temporary or permanent.
User-
defined
exception
If patch assessment results conform to the patching exception definition,
VCM does not patch the managed machine, and updates the result to the
user-defined reason for the patch status. You can type a description in the
text box or select the status from a list of previous user-defined patch
status reasons. The exception can be temporary or permanent.
Prerequisites
Use FTP, NFS, or a premounted file system to acquire and store the Linux and UNIX patches.
Procedure
1. Click Patching.
2. To display the patch status for all machines that were assessed, click Linux or UNIX platformand
select Assessment Results > All Bulletins.
3. To display the assessment results for a single bulletin, select By Specific Bulletin and select a bulletin
in the center pane.
4. Review the patch status for each managed machine.
VCMī ±reports the patch states.
If you did not collect machine data, the patch assessment results might not appear and the managed
machine might not be available for deployment, which would result in a patch-machine mismatch status.
What to do next
Deploy patches. See "Deploy Patches to Linux and UNIX Machines" on page 148.
Deploy Patches to Linux and UNIX Machines
You can use VCM to manually install the patches on Linux and UNIX managed machines.
The patch deployment assesses whether the patch was installed on the VCM managed machines.
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