Installation guide

Option Description
Administration Displays managed vCloud Director instances from which you are
collecting data. Click Administration and select Machines Manager >
Licensed Machines > Licensed Virtual Environments.
Displays the discovered virtual machines with a machine name that is
based on your configuration options in the discovery rule.
For example, OrgName:vAppName:VirtualMachineName.
Click Administration and select Machines Manager.
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If the machines are not licensed and the Agent is not installed, the
machines appear in the Available Machines data grid based on the
operating system.
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If the machines are licensed and the Agent is installed, the machines
appear in the Licensed Machines data grid based on the operating
system.
Administration >
Machine Groups
Dynamic machine groups based on vCloud Director objects, including
instances and guest machines, are used to limit the displayed data.
Configure vCloud Director vApp Virtual Machines Collections
Collect vCloud Director data so that you can identify and manage the guest operating systems of the
vApp virtual machines.
To accommodate how vCloud Director manages vApps, which can include duplicate names, IP addresses,
and MAC addresses, VCM collects and displays internal and external IP address information, internal
machine name information, and vCenter machine name information collected directly from vCloud
Director. Based on the collected data, you determine how VCM constructs a unique virtual machine name
and specify which IP address to use based on the network address translation (NAT) mapping level.
To identify the vCloud Director virtual machines, you configure discovery rules that analyze data collected
from the vCloud Director REST API and use the vApp virtual machine information to add new virtual
machines to VCM. After installing the Agent and licensing the virtual machines, you manage the new
machines based on their operating systems. The machines appear in VCM based on your configured
naming convention.
Network Address Translation and vCloud Director vApp Discovery Rules
To configure the connection string when creating a vCloud Director virtual machines discovery rule, you
must know how network address translation (NAT) is implemented in your vCloud Director instances.
The vCloud Director administrator configures the NATmapping. How the virtual machines are
configured with NATand where VCM is in the network determines the connection string that VCM uses
to communicate with the virtual machines.
vCloud Director 1.0 and 1.5 support a variety of vApp network configurations. VCM supports these
scenarios.
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