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
Index
%
%Systemroot% environment variable 85, 87
A
About Patching 181
about this book 9
access by user 71
accessing
compliance content 263
account
application services 14
collector services 13
network authority 12
active directory
(AD) 249
collection results 258
configuration 255
data collection 258
getting started 249
installing VCM for active directory 255
run determine forest action 256
run domain controller setup action 256
AD (active directory) 249
adding
asset data field 236
hardware asset data 240
Mac OS X 123
multiple hardware asset data 241
multiple software asset data 244
Oracle Instances 133-134
repository sources 227
software asset data 243
UNIX/Linux machines 112
administration
rights 12
ADProductInstall.exe for Windows 85, 87
agent
ADProductInstall.exe for Windows AD 85, 87
CMAgentInstall.exe for Windows 85, 87
installation 16, 83
installation, manually 84
installing
Mac OS X 124
platforms supported 57
proxy
upgrading 60
upgrading manually 61
uninstall, Mac OS X 129
uninstall, UNIX/Linux 120
uninstalling 88
UNIX upgrade 57, 59
Index
VMware, Inc. 265
upgrading 55
upgrading for UNIX 57
agent communication
changing after OS provisioning 211
agents
certificates 15
AgentUpgradeLocal.sh for UNIX 58
application services
account 14
assets
adding data field 236
adding hardware data 240
adding multiple hardware data 241
adding multiple software data 244
adding software data 243
deleting data field 238
deleting hardware data 242
deleting software data 246
editing hardware data 241
editing hardware data values 242
editing software data 245
editing software data values 245
edting data field 237
getting started 235
rearranging data fields 238
refreshing dynamic data field 239
reviewing data fields 236
assigning
network authority account 79
auditing 139
authentication
server 14
automatic upgrade
Remote client 56
B
backup/disaster recovery plan 70
basicimport
provisioning, operating system 38
binary mode, use for ftp 115, 125
boot image,Windows
provisioning, operating system 27
broadband 167
C
certificates
agents 15
collector 15
enterprise 15
secure communication 14