Installation guide

Add UNIX/Linux Machines
Add UNIX/Linux machines to the Available Machines list to make the machines available for licensing.
If you add a large number of machines, you can use other methods to add the machines. See the online
help for procedures to import machine information from a file or use IP Discovery.
NOTE You can use the Discovered Machines Import Tool (DMIT), which imports machines discovered by
the Network Mapper (Nmap), to import many physical and virtual machines at one time into the VCM
database. Download DMIT from the VMware Web site.
Prerequisites
Verify that you know the name or IP address, domain, domain type, machine type, and the
communication port for the machines to add.
Procedure
1. Click Administration.
2. Select Machines Manager > Available Machines.
3. Click Add Machines.
4. On the Add Machines page, select Basic and click Next.
5. On the Manually Add Machines - Basic page, add the machine information.
a. Configure machine information.
Option Action
Machine Type the name of the machine.
You can use NetBIOS or Fully-Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) notation for the
name. If your Collector cannot resolve a host name with a DNS Server, use an
IP address rather than a machine name.
Domain Type or select the domain to which the machine belongs.
Type Select the domain type.
Machine
Type
Select the machine type.
Port Type the port number.
The default value is 26542 when you select a UNIX/Linux or Mac OS X machine
type.
The port number must be the same number used when you install the Agent on
the managed UNIX/Linux machine.
b. Click Add.
c. To add other machines, configure the machine information and click Add.
d. After you add the target machines, click Next.
6. On the Important page, review the machine information and click Finish.
The machine is added to the Available Machines data grid.
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