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. On the non-Collector Windows machine on which you want to install the tools, insert the installation
CD.
2. In Installation Manager, click Run Installation Manager.
During the installation, follow the installation requirements that Installation Manager reports when
Foundation Checker runs.
3. Complete the initial installation pages, and click Next on subsequent pages to access the Select
Installation Type page.
a. Clear the VMware vCenter Configuration Manager check box.
b. Select Tools.
c. To install a subset of tools, clear the Tools check box and select only the individual tools to install.
4. Click Next.
5. Complete the remaining instructions and click Next.
6. On the Installation Complete page, click Finish.
7. On the Installation Manager page, click Exit.
VCM Import/Export and Content Wizard Tools
Use the Import/Export Tool and the Content Wizard Tool to move or update VCM business objects.
These tools support the migration of any VCM Management Extension for Asset data that was added to
VCM manually, but does not import or export any collected data.
The Import/Export Tool supports the following scenarios.
n
Back up (export) and restore (import) business objects to the same machine.
n
Back up (export) and import (if needed) business objects during a VCM upgrade.
n
Export and migrate (import) business objects to additional machines in a multi-Collector environment
during setup or to move custom content.
n
Use the Content Wizard to download current Compliance Content from VMware and import it into an
existing database.
n
Using the Command Line Interface, automate the propagation of content to other machines in a multi-
collector environment with a “golden machine”.
n
Aid in disaster recovery by using the Command Line Interface to automate and schedule the backup of
VCM content and configuration parameters.
The Command Line Interface (CLI) is a powerful extension of the Import/Export graphic user interface
(GUI). In addition to supporting the scenarios noted above, the CLI allows content to be overwritten, as
opposed to “rename only”, and provides for automation through scripting suitable for customizations.
IMPORTANT Use of the CLI should be restricted to advanced users who exercise caution when testing
their scripts.
The Import/Export Tool and Content Wizard Tool were installed on your Collector machine during your
VCM installation. These tools can only be run on a Collector machine.
vCenter Configuration Manager Installation and Getting Started Guide
262 VMware, Inc.