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
Prerequisites
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Have an administrator configure the asset data fields that you need. See "Configure Asset Data Fields"
on page 235.
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Log in to VCM with a role that has edit permission for asset configuration data.
Procedure
1. Click Console.
2. Select Asset Extensions > Hardware Configuration Items > Other Devices.
3. Click Add.
4. Select or type the details that identify the device, such as its name and model, and click Next.
5. Select or type the values for the asset data associated with the device and click Next.
The fields can vary depending on how the administrator configured your data for other hardware
devices.
6. Click Finish.
Add Multiple Similar Other Hardware Devices
If your site has many nearly identical devices, you can use VCMMXA to clone one copy as a way to
quickly add records for the other devices.
Prerequisites
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Log in to VCM with a role that has edit permission for asset configuration data.
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Create at least one copy of the device to serve as a baseline. See "Add Other Hardware Devices" on
page 240.
Procedure
1. Click Console.
2. Select Asset Extensions > Hardware Configuration Items > Other Devices.
3. In the data grid, select the original, baseline asset.
4. Click Clone.
5. Modify the details to reflect the new copy of the asset and click Next.
You must change at least the name.
6. Modify the values to reflect the asset data associated with the new device and click Next.
7. Click Finish.
Edit Asset Data for Other Hardware Devices
Use VCMMXA to change your hardware asset records as your enterprise changes.
Prerequisites
Log in to VCM with a role that has edit permission for asset configuration data.
Getting Started with VCM Management Extensions for Assets
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