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
Prerequisites
Verify that you can access the VCM documentation page at
https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcm_pubs.html.
Procedure
1. On the VCM documentation page, click Current Product Download.
2. On the Download VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Web site, click Drivers & Tools.
3. Expand VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Tools.
4. For your VCM version, click Go to Downloads.
5. To download and run the Software Content Repository Tool, click Download Manager or Manually
Download.
What to do next
Configure the SCR Tool for Linux and UNIXPatching. See "Configure the SCR Tool" on page 160.
Configure the SCR Tool
VCM 5.7 patching for Linux and UNIX requires the Software Content Repository (SCR) Tool. To support
the use of the SCR Tool, VCM uses the properties files for the Linux and UNIX platforms.
The properties files include the environment settings that the SCR Tool uses to download the patch
content for each supported Linux and UNIX platform. For information about the .plp files, see the
Software Content Repository (SCR) Tool Guide.
To integrate the SCR Tool with VCM, you must place a special bundle of properties files for the platforms
in a specific directory on the patching repository machine. The properties file names use the format
platform-rt.properties.
When you submit a patch download job in VCM, during patch deployment VCM reads a special bundled
runtime file and uses the content in it to create additional required files. When you edit the special bundled
runtime properties files in the following procedure, you must ensure the following restrictions on the
runtime properties files.
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Must not contain relative paths.
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Must have credentials and proxy information as defined in the Software Content Repository (SCR) Tool
Guide.
Prerequisites
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Locate the Software Content Repository Tool Guide on the VMware documentation Web site for use in the
following procedure. See https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcm_pubs.html.
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Download the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to support the SCR Tool on the patching repository
machine. See the Software Content Repository Tool Guide.
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Download and install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) on the patching repository Red Hat Linux
machine where the SCR Tool is installed. See the Software Content Repository Tool Guide.
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Obtain the special bundle of properties files, Sample-SCR-Properties.tgz, at the same location
where you downloaded the SCR Tool.
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Install the SCR Tool on the RedHat Linux 6, 64-bit patching repository machine, and do not modify the
properties files.
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