Installation guide

In a NATmapped network environment, your best practice is to install the Agent on the vApp template
machines. You must manually install the Agent with the HTTP mode enabled, but you must not collect
data from these template machines. Collecting from the template machines generates machine-specific
information that will cause the virtual machines created from the template to run incomplete collections.
If you discovered NAT mapped vApp virtual machines that do not have the Agent preinstalled on the
templates from which they were created, you must manually install the Agent. The Agent must be
installed with the HTTP protocol enabled. See Manually Install the Windows Agent in the online Help.
Discover vCloud Director vApp Virtual Machines
To begin managing the vCloud Director vApp virtual machines, create and run a VCM discovery rule. The
rule runs against the collected vCloud Director data in the VCM database.
Prerequisites
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Collect vCloud Director data. You can run the discovery only on the collected data. See "Collect vCloud
Director Data" on page 39.
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Determine how NATis used in your vCloud Director network and where VCM is located in
relationship to the network. See "Network Address Translation and vCloud Director vApp Discovery
Rules" on page 41.
Procedure
1. Click Administration.
2. Select Machines Manager > Discovery Rules.
3. On the data grid toolbar, click Add.
4. On the Discovery Rules page, type a Name and Description, and click Next.
5. On the Discovery Method page, select By DB Discovery and click Next.
6. On the Discovery Query page, in the Discovery Query drop-down menu, select vCloud Director
Managed VMs and click Next.
7. On the Discovery Query Parameters page, configure the options to use when discovering and adding
the data to VCM and click Next.
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