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
1. "Install the OS Provisioning Server" on page 22
Using the supplied media or media images, install the OS Provisioning Server and run the command to
create the distribution repository.
2. "Set the vcmuser Password" on page 24
Configure the vcmuser to use when you import distributions into the OS Provisioning Server
repository and for communication between VCM and the OS Provisioning Server.
3. "Configure DHCP" on page 25
When you configure a private, isolated network that is used specifically for provisioning, the OS
Provisioning Server uses the DHCP server it installed to provide addresses and network boot
information to nodes connected to the network.
4. "Configure TFTP " on page 26
The OS Provisioning Server provides TFTP services that run on the provisioning network. You must
configure the TFTP server to listen on the private OS provisioning network interface.
5. "Create a Windows Boot Image" on page 26
Create a Windows boot image and copy it to the OS Provisioning Server. You create the image on a
Windows 2008 or Windows 7 machine, and copy the files to the OS Provisioning Server.
6. "Copy the VCMCertificate to the OS Provisioning Server for Linux Provisioning" on page 27
If you use the OS Provisioning Server to install Linux distributions, you must copy the VCM certificate
file to the OS Provisioning Server to ensure the certificate is included with the Agent when OS
Provisioning Server creates the configured session prior to provisioning.
7. "Configure OS Provisioning Server Integration with the VCM Collector" on page 28
The integration between VCM and the OS Provisioning Server uses Stunnel to establish secure
communication between and the SOAP services of the two components.
Install the OS Provisioning Server
Using the supplied media or media images, install the OS Provisioning Server and run the command to
create the distribution repository.
VCM OS provisioning supports a single instance of VCM with a single instance of the OS Provisioning
Server.
Prerequisites
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Install VCM. See "Installing VCM" on page 19.
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Ensure the target machine meets the prerequisites specified in the VCM Hardware and Software
Requirements Guide.
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Determine whether you are installing the OS Provisioning Server as an attended or unattended
installation. To run an unattended installation, use the ./autoinstall -a y command. This
procedure is based on an attended installation.
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