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Table Of Contents
- Cloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Getting Started with Cloud Director
- Adding Resources to Cloud Director
- Adding vSphere Resources
- Adding Cloud Resources
- Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Create a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- External Networks
- Add an External Network
- Network Pools
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by VLAN IDs
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by vSphere Port Groups
- Set the MTU for a Network Pool Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Creating and Provisioning Organizations
- Creating a Published Catalog
- Managing Cloud Resources
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC
- Delete a Provider vDC
- Modify a Provider vDC Name and Description
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Host
- Prepare or Unprepare a Provider vDC Host
- Upgrade an ESX/ESXi Host Agent for a Provider vDC Host
- Repair a Provider vDC ESX/ESXi Host
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Datastore
- Add Storage Capacity to a Provider vDC
- Configure Low Disk Space Warnings for a Provider vDC Datastore
- Send an Email Notification to Provider vDC Users
- Managing Organization vDCs
- Managing External Networks
- Managing Organization Networks
- Creating Organization Networks
- Configuring Network Services
- Reset an Organization Network
- Delete an Organization Network
- View IP Usage for an Organization Network
- Add IP Addresses to an Organization Network IP Pool
- Modify an Organization Network Name and Description
- Modify an Organization Network DNS Settings
- Managing Network Pools
- Managing Cloud Cells
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Managing vSphere Resources
- Managing Organizations
- Enable or Disable an Organization
- Delete an Organization
- Modify an Organization Name
- Modify an Organization Full Name and Description
- Modify Organization LDAP Options
- Modify Organization Catalog Publishing Policy
- Modify Organization Email Preferences
- Modify Organization Lease, Quota, and Limit Settings
- Add a Catalog to an Organization
- Managing Organization Resources
- Managing Organization Users and Groups
- Managing Organization vApps
- Managing System Administrators and Roles
- Add a System Administrator
- Import a System Administrator
- Enable or Disable a System Administrator
- Delete a System Administrator
- Edit System Administrator Profile and Contact Information
- Send an Email Notification to Users
- Delete a System Administrator Who Lost Access to the System
- Import an LDAP Group
- Delete an LDAP Group
- Change an LDAP Group Description
- Roles and Rights
- Create a Role
- Copy a Role
- Edit a Role
- Delete a Role
- Managing System Settings
- Monitoring Cloud Director
- Roles and Rights
- Index
Table 9-1. General System Settings (Continued)
Name Category Description
Login Policy Login Policy Select a login policy.
Activity Log History to keep Activity Log Number of days of log history to keep before deleting it.
Type 0 to never delete logs.
Activity Log History shown Activity Log Number of days of log history to display.
Type 0 to show all activity.
Display debug information Activity Log Enable this setting to display debug information in the
Cloud Director task log.
Idle Session Timeout Miscellaneous Amount of time the Cloud Director application remains
active without user interaction.
Maximum Session Timeout Miscellaneous Maximum amount of time the Cloud Director application
remains active.
Host Refresh Frequency Miscellaneous How often Cloud Director checks whether its ESX/ESXi
hosts are accessible or inaccessible.
Host Hung Timeout Miscellaneous Select the amount of time to wait before marking a host as
hung.
Chargeback Event History to Keep Miscellaneous Number of days of chargeback event history to keep
before deleting it.
Provide default vApp names Miscellaneous Select the check box to generate default names for vApps.
Allow Overlapping External
Networks
Miscellaneous Select the check box if you want to add external networks
that run on the same network segment.
You should only enable this setting if you are using non-
VLAN-based methods (for example, VMware vShield
Manager) to isolate your external networks.
Enable Upload Quarantine with a
Timeout of __ seconds
Miscellaneous Select the check box and enter a timeout representing the
amount of time to quarantine uploaded files.
For more information about working with quarantined
files, see “Monitoring Quarantined Files,” on page 94.
Verify vCenter certificates Miscellaneous Select the check box to only allow Cloud Director to
communicate with trusted vCenter servers. Click Browse
to locate the JCEKS keystore and type the keystore
password.
Configure SMTP Settings
Cloud Director requires an SMTP server to send user notifications and system alert emails to system users.
Organizations can use the system SMTP settings, or use custom SMTP settings.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Email in the left pane.
2 Type the DNS host name or IP address of the SMTP mail server.
3 Type the SMTP server port number.
4 (Optional) If the SMTP server requires a user name, select the Requires authentication check box and
type the user name and password for the SMTP account.
5 Type an email address to appear as the sender for Cloud Director emails.
Cloud Director uses the sender's email address to send runtime and storage lease expiration alerts.
6 Type text to use as the subject prefix for Cloud Director emails.
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