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
PowerShell
executing for WCI 98
for Windows Custom Info 106
scripts, troubleshooting 111
signing scripts for WCI 98
WCI getting started 94
prerequisites
check for installation 12
for migration 46
vCenter Server collections 143
prerequisites for migration 44
Product Overview 181
provision machines
operating systems 202-203, 205, 211
provisioning
compliance
remediation 232
compliance rule 231
install agent 16
jobs History 230
provisioning, operating system 199
agent communication 211
certificates,copy 27
collect distributions 201
components 199
confgure 21
configure 21
configure ESX and ESXi 213
DHCP 25
discovery 202
distributions 201
importing 33
esx 213
import
Linux/ESX 36
Windows 34
importing
basicimport 38
create Windows directories 34
install 21-22
integration
stunnel 28
Linux
time 210
logs 40
ospctl commands 40
provision machines 202-203, 205, 211
re-provision machines 214
results 214
set vcmuser password 24
stunnel 29-30, 32
TFTP 26
uninstall 24
upgrade 39
Windows boot image 27
workflow 200
purge
for WCI 107
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re-provisioning machines
operating systems 214
rearranging
asset data fields 238
recovery plan 70
Red Hat
install UNIX agent 115
refreshing
dynamic asset data field 239
registering
vSphere Client Plug-in 63, 163
remediation
compliance rule
software provisioning 232
Remote
collection results 179
filter sets 169
getting started 167
settings 168
virtual directory 14
Remote client
automatic upgrade 56
collector aware 168, 178
installing
command line 172-173
remote command 172, 175
remote package
UNIX agent upgrade 59
repairing
uninstall, troubleshooting 19
reports
WCI 110
repositories
collect 226
installing 219
repository for patch assessment content 184
repository sources
adding 227
results
collection, active directory 258
collection, Mac OS X 131
provisioning, operating system 214
vCloud Director
vApp 162
virtualization 152
reviewing
asset data fields 236
rights
administration 12
running
determine forest action 256
domain controller setup 256
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scripts
PowerShell 94
secure communication 14
VMware, Inc. 269
Index