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Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Installation Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Achieving a Successful VCM Installation
- Hardware Requirements for Collector Machines
- Software and Operating System Requirements for Collector Machines
- Preparing for Installation
- System Prerequisites to Install VCM
- Configure Resources to Install VCM on a Virtual Machine
- Secure Communications Certificates
- Single-Tier Server Installation
- Two-Tier Split Installation
- Three-Tier Split Installation
- Configuring a Three-Tier Split Installation Environment
- Installation Prerequisites for All Servers
- Configuring the VCM Database Server
- Configuring the Web Server
- Verify the Server Role Services on the Web Server
- Verify the IIS Server-Side Includes Role Service
- Verify the ISAPI Extensions
- Install the .NET Framework
- Verify the Authentication Settings
- Install SQL Server on the Web Server
- Install SQL Server 2008 Utilities
- Place the Web Server in the Internet Explorer Trusted Zone
- Configuring SSRS on the Web Server
- Configuring the VCM Collector
- Configuring Additional Components for a Three-Tier Environment
- Installing VCM
- Configuring SQL Server for VCM
- Upgrading or Migrating VCM
- Upgrading VCM and Components
- Upgrading Virtual Environments Collections
- Migrating VCM
- Prerequisites to Migrate VCM
- Migrate Only Your Database
- Replace Your Existing 32-Bit Environment with a Supported 64-bit Environment
- Migrate a 32-bit Environment Running VCM 5.3 or Earlier to VCM 5.6
- Migrate a 64-bit Environment Running VCM 5.3 or Earlier to VCM 5.6
- Migrate a Split Installation of VCM 5.3 or Earlier to a Single-Tier, Two-Tier...
- How to Recover Your Collector Machine if the Migration is not Successful
- Maintaining VCM After Installation
- Hardware and Operating System Requirements for VCM Managed Machines
- VCM Agent Support on Non-English Windows Platforms
- VCM Managed Machine Requirements
- Windows Custom Information Supports PowerShell 2.0
- Supported OS Provisioning Target Systems
- Software Provisioning Requirements
- UNIX and Linux Patch Assessment and Deployment Requirements
- Support for VMware Cloud Infrastructure
- vCenter Operations Manager Integration Features
- FIPS Requirements
- Agent Sizing Information
- Hardware and Software Requirements for the Operating System Provisioning Server
- Installing, Configuring, and Upgrading the OS Provisioning Server and Components
- Index
ospctrl Command Options
Use the ospctrl command-line options to configure your TFTPand Apache services with the OS
provisioning private IP address and to back up and restore the OS Provisioning Server repository and
distribution files.
Option Description
--help
Displays and describes the ospctrl options.
--configure --
privateip
<IPAddress>
Configures the TFTP server and the Apache server with the private
provisioning network IP address.
--configure --
selinux
If SELinux is enabled, compiles the policies of OS Provisioning Server
and then inserts the policies into the running kernel. The action also
relabels OS Provisioning Server objects.
--configure --
firewall
Makes the OS Provisioning Server services trusted by enabling the
appropriate ports to communicate with outside networks for the
purpose of operating system provisioning.
--configure --
createrepo
Creates data for OS Provisioning Server and prompts you to change
default passwords of OS Provisioning Server.
--configure --
createrepo --
nopasswd
Creates data for OS Provisioning Server and with the default
passwords rather than prompting you to change the passwords.
--deconfigure
Resets the TFTP server and the Apache server to the default values.
--showconfig
Displays the current state of the TFTP and Apache servers, including
the configured private IP address.
--backup --
dirpath=/<path to
backup directory>
Backs up the repository and the OS distributions to the specified --
dirpath location.
--restore --
dirpath=/<path to
backup directory>
Restores the repository and the OS distributions from the specified
--dirpath backup location.
Table 17–3. ospctrl Command Options
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