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Table Of Contents
- Installation and Configuration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Before Installing vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise
- System Requirements
- Installation and Configuration Checklist
- vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Database Configuration
- Installing vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise
- Managing Program Groups
- Installing a vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Collector
- Installing a vCenter Operations Manager Adapter
- Installing the Analytics Processor
- Index
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Chapter 5 Installing vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise
10 OntheConfigurationModepage,selectBasicorAdvanced.Useadvancedconfigurationonlyifoneor
moreofthefollowingistrue:
CommunicationbetweenaremotevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseCollectorandthe
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseServerwillbeviafirewallorHTTPproxy.
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisewillbemonitoringmorethan100,000resources.
ReplicationisenabledbetweentheprimaryvCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserveranda
backupserver.
YouareinstallingvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisetobeusedasabackupserver.
Forsecurityreasons,youdonotwantthevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisecomponentstouse
defaultpasswordsandports.
IfyouchooseBasic,continuethisprocedure.IfyouchooseAdvanced,continuewith“AdvancedvCenter
OperationsManagerEnterpriseConfiguration”onpage 23.
11 OntheFullConfigurationpage,selectPrimaryorBackupunder
ServerConfiguration.
12 IntheDatabaseTypefield,chooseOracleasthisistheonlydatabasesupportedonLinux.
13 TypetheOracledatabase’sSystemIdentifierintheSIDfield.
14 IntheDatabaseHostfield,entertheIPaddressofthedatabaseserver.
15 IntheDatabasePortfield,leavethedefaultentry (1521)unlessyouinstalledOracleusingadifferentport
number.
16 IntheUserNameandPasswordfields,entertheusernameandpasswordforauserwithpermissionto
readandwritetotheOracleschema.
17 ClicktheTestbuttontotesttheconnectiontothedatabase.Ifthetestfails,
checkyourentries,makeany
neededcorrections,andtryagain.
18 InvCenterOperationsServerConfiguration,chooseHTTPorHTTPS.Thissetstheprotocoltousefor
clientconnectionstothevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver.
19 IfyouwantadapterswhichusetheHTTPpostmethodtouseWebauthentication,check
theHTTPPost
adapterwebauthenticationenabledbox.
20 ThevCenterOperationsServerPortfielddisplaysthedefaultportnumberfortheprotocolyouchose.If
youneedtochangethis,port,typethecorrectnumber.
21 ToenableInternetconnectionstothevCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserver,typetheservername
orpublic
IPaddressfortheserverinthevCenterOperationsServerHostfield.(Theinstallertriesto
detectthehostnameorIPaddressoftheserverandfillitinasthedefault.)Ifyouleavethisfieldblank,
userswillnotbeabletoconnectfromoutsidethelocal
network.
22 IntheFSDBHome(FileSystemDatabase)field,typethepathtothedirectorywherevCenterOperations
ManagerEnterpriseshouldsavethemetricsitcollects.Youcanenteruptoeightlocationstodistribute
driveI/Ouse.Ifyouentermorethanone,separatethemwithsemi‐colons.Forbest
performance,this
shouldnotbeonthesamedrivesystemwherethevCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisesoftwareis
installed.
N
OTEIfyouconfigureabackupserver,ifthereisaproblemwithyourprimaryserveryoucanusethe
configurationwizardtomakethebackupservertheprimaryserver.Allremotecollectorswillthensend
metricstothenewprimaryserver.
N
OTEvCenterOperationsManagerEnterprisesendsalerte‐mailmessagescontaininghyperlinkstothe
vCenterOperationsManagerEnterpriseserversoadministratorscanfindmoreinformationaboutthe
alert.Ifyouwantoffsiteadministratorstobeabletousetheselinks,besuretoenterapublicIPaddress
forthevCenter
OperationsManagerEnterpriseserver.Youshouldnotsetthehostnametolocalhost.