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
Procedure
1. Click Administration.
2. Select Machines Manager > Available Machines > Available Windows Machines.
3. Select the domain controllers to license.
4. Click License.
5. Verify that the domain controllers to license appear in the Selected list.
Use the arrows to move the domain controllers.
Do not select the Install VCM Agents for the selected machines check box.
6. Click Next to view your Product License Details.
The licensed domain controller count increases by the number of licensed machines.
7. Click Next.
VCM confirms that the licenses you requested will be applied to the selected domain controllers.
8. Click Finish.
What to do next
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If you are working with Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2, or Vista domain controllers, disable User Account
Control (UAC). See the instructions in "Disable User Account Control for VCM Agent Installation" on
page 81 before you proceed.
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Install the VCM Windows Agent. See "Install the VCM Windows Agent on Your Domain Controllers"
on page 253.
Install the VCM Windows Agent on Your Domain Controllers
Install the VCM Windows Agent on each domain controller to manage.
Before you can collect data from domain controllers, you must install the VCM Windows Agent on the
licensed domain controllers in your environment to enable communication between the Collector and the
target machines.
Prerequisites
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License the domain controllers on which you install the Agent. See "License Domain Controllers" on
page 252.
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Disable UAC before you install the Agent on Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2, or Vista machines. See "Disable
User Account Control for VCM Agent Installation" on page 81.
Procedure
1. Click Administration.
2. Select Machines Manager > Licensed Machines > Licensed Windows Machines.
3. In the data grid, select one or more domain controllers on which to install the Agent and click Install.
Getting Started with VCM for Active Directory
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