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
Configure the vSphere Client VCM Plug-In
The vSphere Client VCM Plug-In provides contextual access to VCM change, compliance, and
management functions, in addition to direct access to collected vCenter, virtual machine host, and virtual
machine guest data.
When using the vSphere Client VCM Plug-In, the virtual machine host name in vCenter must match the
virtual machine host name in VCM.
CAUTION Anyone accessing VCM and the vSphere Client must have a unique login. Do not share
vSphere Client logins between VCM users. Do not share vSphere Client logins between VCM users
and non-VCM users.
Procedure
1. "Register the vSphere Client VCM Plug-In" on page 163
The registration process configures the URL in the VMware vSphere Client to the VCM Collector and
makes the VCM Summary and VCM Actions tabs available in the vSphere Client.
2. "Configuring the vSphere Client VCM Plug-In Integration Settings" on page 164
Configure integration settings in VCM for your vSphere Client VCM Plug-In users. The settings
enable users to view the VCM reports.
3. "Manage Machines from the vSphere Client" on page 165
vSphere Client-managed machines are available in the vSphere Client VCM Plug-In when they
licensed and have the VCM Agent installed. The available actions include collecting new data and
running compliance, patching, and reports for the selected machines.
Register the vSphere Client VCM Plug-In
The registration process configures the URL in the VMware vSphere Client to the VCM Collector and
makes the VCM Summary and VCM Actions tabs available in the vSphere Client.
The plug-in is installed automatically with VCM. To unregister a previous version of the plug-in, see
"Upgrade the vSphere Client VCM Plug-In" on page 63.
IMPORTANT The account that you use to register the vSphere Client VCM Plug-In should be a local
administrator on the vSphere instance. The account must connect to a machine that has a valid SSL
certificate or must register an invalid certificate (for example, a development certificate) when that user
logs into the vSphere Client.
Prerequsites
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Verify that you are using VMware vCenter 4 Server.
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Verify that the VMware vSphere Client is installed.
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Verify that the VMware Tools are installed on the virtual machines.
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