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
After you provision the target machines, VCM manages them as Window, UNIX/Linux, or ESX/VM Host
machines. As managed machines, you collect data, add software, run patching assessments, and apply
rules to maintain machine compliance in your environment.
The displayed data is only as current as the last time you collected from the OS Provisioning Server.
Option Description
Administration View administrative details about the OS Provisioning Server.
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To view all provisioned machines, click Administration and
select Machines Manager > OS Provisioning > Provisioned
Machines.
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To view the provisioned Windows machines, click
Administration and select Machines Manager > Licensed
Machines > Licensed Windows Machines. The OS Provisioning
Status column indicates whether the Windows machine was
create using OS provisioning.
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To view the provisioned UNIX/Linux machines, click
Administration and select Machines Manager > Licensed
Machines > Licensed UNIX Machines. The OS Provisioning
Status column indicates whether the UNIX/Linux machine was
create using OS provisioning.
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To view the provisioned ESX machines, click Administration
and select Machines Manager > Licensed Machines > Licensed
VM Hosts Machines. The OS Provisioning Status column
indicates whether the ESX or ESXi machine was create using OS
provisioning.
Re-Provision Machines
You can re-provision Windows, UNIX/Linux, or ESX machines where the operating system was installed
using the OS Provisioning Server and VCM.
When machines are re-provisioned, you may change the machine name.
CAUTION Re-provisioning overwrites the existing disk with a new operating system. All existing
data is lost.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the machine to be re-provisioned is listed in the Provisioned Machines data grid. Select
Administration and click Machines Manager > OS Provisioning > Provisioned Machines.
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Review the provisioning process for the OS distribution you are installing. See "Provision Machines
with Operating System Distributions" on page 202.
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On the target machine, set the BIOS to network boot.
Procedure
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