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Option Action
CERTIFICATEFILE="x:\[mypath]\[mycert].pem" or
CERTIFICATEFILE=”SKIP”
What to do next
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To confirm that the job finished running, click Administration and select Job Manager > History >
Other Jobs > Past 24 Hours.
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Collect Windows data from VCM managed machines. See "Collect Windows Data" on page 97.
Manually Uninstall the VCM Windows Agent
When you no longer manage a Windows machine with VCM, you uninstall the Agent from that target
machine. If you used VCM to install the Agent, you must use VCM to uninstall the Agent.
To keep historical data, do not remove the Windows machine from VCM. After you remove the Windows
Agent and remove the managed Windows machine from the list of licensed machines, VCM no longer
manages the Windows machine and you can no longer collect data from it.
The Windows Agent uninstall executable file exists on the VCM managed machine if you installed the
Agent manually using CMAgentInstall.exe or CMAgentInstall.msi. Use this manual process to
uninstall the Agent only if you used either of these commands to install the Agent.
Procedure
1. On the VCM managed machine, run
%SystemRoot%\CMAgent\Uninstall\Packages\CMAgentInstall\UnCMAgentInstall.exe.
This path displays the default location. The EXE file is located in the path relative to the installed
software on the Collector.
Collect Windows Data
Start managing the Windows machines by performing an initial collection, which adds Windows machine
data to VCM.
Use the default filter set to collect a general view of the Windows machines in your environment. The first
time that you use the default filter to collect data, the Windows Agent returns all of the data specified in
the filter and stores the data in the VCM database. All subsequent collections will return a delta against the
data previously collected.
A delta collection includes only the differences between the data on the target machine and the data stored
in the VCM database. If you need a full collection, you can specify that VCM collect all data again. A full
collection can take a significant amount of time depending on the number of VCM managed Windows
machines from which you are collecting.
When you perform a full collection from your entire environment, run the collection during nonworking
hours so that users do not notice any performance impact on managed machines. After the initial
collection is finished, subsequent delta collections will most likely not impact performance.
Configuring Windows Machines
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