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
Figure 10–1. UNIXand Linux Patch Assessment and Deployment Process
To verify that VCM supports your UNIX and Linux machines for patch deployment, see the VCM
Hardware and Software Requirements Guide.
VCM provides patch assessment content in a new format for several Red Hat and SUSE versions. See
"New UNIXPatch Assessment Content" on page 183. For the operating system versions supported, see
the VCM Hardware and Software Requirements Guide.
New UNIXPatch Assessment Content
VCM provides patch assessment content in a new format for several Red Hat and SUSEversions. For the
operating system versions supported, see the VCM Hardware and Software Requirements Guide. All other
UNIX and Linux versions use the standard content architecture.
When the VCM 5.4.1 or later Agent is installed on these machines, VCMsupports patch assessments using
the new content architecture.
With the new patch assessment content, VCM updates the information required to assess the patch status
of your VCM managed Red Hat and SUSE machines. Results for the new and standard patch assessment
content formats appear together in a single view in VCM. Use these results to analyze the patch status of
all versions of your Red Hat and SUSE machines regardless of the VCM Agent version installed on them.
Patch deployment to all Red Hat and SUSE managed machines that include a combination of VCM pre-
5.4.1 and 5.4.1 or later Agents installed uses a single action. In earlier versions of supported Red Hat and
SUSEoperating systems that have a pre-5.4.1 Agent installed, the pre-5.4.1 content is enabled
automatically for patch assessments.
Patch Bulletin Name Changes
In the assessment results, patch bulletins appear with titles that differ from the standard content.
Managed Machine New Bulletin Title Standard Bulletin Title
Red Hat 4, 5, and 6
RHBA-2005:356-06 RH 2005:356-06 (RHBA)
SUSE SLES 10.0–10.3, 11.0–
11.1
Novell SUSE 2010-09-16
x86_64: Security update
for bzip2
Novell Linux 2010-09-16
x86_64: Security update
for bzip2
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