User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Configuration ManagerInstallation and Getting Started Guide
- About This Book
- Preparing for Installation
- Installation Manager
- Installation Configurations
- Tools Installation
- General Prerequisites to Install VCM
- Verify Hardware and Software Requirements
- Verify Administration Rights
- Set the Default Network Authority Account
- Specify the Collector Services Account
- Change the Collector Services Account Password in the Services Management Con...
- Change the Collector Services Account Password in the Component Services DCOM...
- Verify the VMware Application Services Account
- Determine the VCM Remote Virtual Directory
- Use Secure Communications Certificates
- Understand Server Authentication
- Verify the Foundation Checker System Checks
- Install UNIX Patch for HP-UX 11.11
- VCM Uses FIPS Cryptography
- Installing VCM
- Installing, Configuring, and Upgrading the OS Provisioning Server and Components
- Upgrading or Migrating VCM
- Upgrades
- Migrations
- Prerequisites to Migrate VCM
- Back Up Your Databases
- Back up Your Files
- Export and Back up Your Certificates
- Migrating 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 5.4.1
- Migrate a 64-bit Environment Running VCM 5.3 or Earlier to VCM 5.4.1
- Migrate a Split Installation of VCM 5.3 or Earlier to a Single-Server Install...
- How to Recover Your Collector Machine if the Migration is not Successful
- Upgrading VCM and Components
- Maintaining VCM After Installation
- Getting Started with VCM Components and Tools
- Getting Started with VCM
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Verify Available Domains
- Check the Network Authority
- Assign Network Authority Accounts
- Discover Windows Machines
- License Windows Machines
- Disable User Account Control for VCM Agent Installation
- Install the VCM Windows Agent on Your Windows Machines
- Enable UAC After VCM Agent Installation
- Collect Windows Data
- Windows Collection Results
- Getting Started with Windows Custom Information
- Discover, License, and Install UNIX/Linux Machines
- Discover, License, and Install Mac OS X Machines
- Discover, Configure, and Collect Oracle Data from UNIX Machines
- Customize VCM for your Environment
- How to Set Up and Use VCM Auditing
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Getting Started with VCM for Virtualization
- Getting Started with VCM Remote
- Getting Started with VCM Patching
- Getting Started with Operating System Provisioning
- Getting Started with Software Provisioning
- Using Package Studio to Create Software Packages and Publish to Repositories
- Software Repository for Windows
- Package Manager for Windows
- Software Provisioning Component Relationships
- Install the Software Provisioning Components
- Using Package Studio to Create Software Packages and Publish to Repositories
- Using VCM Software Provisioning for Windows
- Related Software Provisioning Actions
- Getting Started with VCM Management Extensions for Assets
- Getting Started with VCM Service Desk Integration
- Getting Started with VCM for Active Directory
- Installing and Getting Started with VCM Tools
- Index
The CMAgentInstall.exe or CMAgent[version].msi is the manual Agent installer program. The
manual installer requests the location of the Enterprise Certificate file when HTTP is specified. You must
have the Enterprise Certificate file available at installation time. You can copy the certificate file from
the CollectorData folder on the Collector.
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Using the MSI Install Package
When you specify HTTP, the MSI Agent install package also requires access to the .pem file.
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Installing the Agent for UNIX/Linux
See "Install the Agent on UNIX/Linux Machines" on page 114.
Installing the Agent Using a Provisioning System
For Windows, the manual installation program is available in EXE and MSI formats. Both versions allow
you to specify the Enterprise Certificate file by using a command line switch. You may omit the certificate
installation step by using a command line switch.
When these programs are run through a provisioning system, you must ensure that the Enterprise
Certificate is available and secure, and configure the program options appropriately. Alternatively, you
may choose to send the Enterprise Certificate to Agents by some other means and configure the
provisioning system to omit certificate installation.
For UNIX/Linux, each UNIX/Linux installation package is targeted for one or more supported platforms.
To install the UNIX/Linux Agent using a provisioning system, extract the installation package and then
deploy the extracted file with the provisioning system. The Enterprise Certificate is embedded in the
installation package on the Collector.
For more information about installing the Agent on UNIX/Linux machines, and UNIX/Linux packages and
platforms, see "Install the Agent on UNIX/Linux Machines" on page 114.
Verify the Foundation Checker System Checks
Installation Manager runs Foundation Checker automatically during the VCM installation. Foundation
Checker checks your Collector to verify that all of the prerequisites are satisfied for a successful
installation.
When Foundation Checker runs as part of the Installation Manager process, it verifies component-specific
issues against VCM. Foundation Checker captures common issues that are difficult to remediate and
identifies issues with the components and version of VCM being installed. Foundation Checker must run
without generating errors before you install VCM. For more information about the standalone
Foundation Checker, see "Installing and Getting Started with VCM Tools" on page 261) and the VCM
Foundation Checker User's Guide on the Download VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Web site.
Install UNIX Patch for HP-UX 11.11
If you install the VCM Agent on HP-UX 11.11 platforms, install patch PHSS_30966. For assistance, contact
VMware Technical Support.
VCM Uses FIPS Cryptography
VCM incorporates cryptographic service providers that conform to Federal Information Processing
Standards (FIPS) standards. The FIPS standards are developed by the US National Institute of Standards
(NIST) and the Canadian Communications Security Establishment (CSE).
VCM supports the following FIPS standards.
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