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 VCM Windows Agent" on page 78.
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.
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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 39.
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.
Option Description
Machine
Name
Format
Select the format used to display the virtual machine name.
You can select the vCenter name for the virtual machine or select a combination
of names for the virtual machine that includes the vApp that contains the virtual
machine, the vCloud Director organization, and the vCloud Director instance.
With these formats, you can easily sort, group, and display the data in VCM.
The composite name is limited to 128 characters.
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VCName: Name of the virtual machinein vCenter. vCloud Director creates the
virtual machine and generates the name of the virtual machine, which includes
the machine's host name and the 10-digit identification number of the virtual
machinein vCenter. This name is unique in a single vCloud Director instance.
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vApp:VCName: Name of the vApp that contains the virtual machine and the
name of the virtual machinein vCenter.
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vDC:vApp:VCName: Name of the virtual datacenter with the vApp name and
the name of the virtual machinein vCenter.
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