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
server
authentication 14
Service Desk integration 247
settings
cusomizing for components 65
database recovery 68
remote 168
setup action
running for active directory 256
signing
PowerShell scripts 98
sliders
in portal 75
sources
repository sources
adding 227
SQL*Plus
Oracle 136
stunnel
provisioning, operating system 28-30, 32
SUSE
install UNIX agent 115
T
TFTP
provisioning, operating system 26
time
provisioning, operating system
Linux 210
ToCMBase64String 94
toolbar
in portal 74
tools
foundation checker 261
getting started 261
import/export, content 261
installation 12, 261
job manager 261
troubleshooting
PowerShell scripts 111
vCenter Server data collections 146
vSphere client integration 166
U
UAC
disabling on Windows machines 81
enabling on Windows machines 89
uninstall
agent 88
agent, Mac OS X 129
agent, UNIX/Linux 120
provisioning, operating system 24
troubleshooting 19
UNIX agent
platform support 57
port number 118, 127
upgrading 57
local package 57
remote package 59
UNIX patch assessment content repository 184
UNIX patch content download 184
UNIX/Linux
agent uninstall 120
AgentUpgradeLocal.sh 58
check for updates 192
collections 121
machines, adding 112
machines, licensing 114
updates
check for UNIX/Linux 192
check for Windows 185
upgrade
provisioning, operating system 39
upgrading 43
agent 55
agent proxy 60
agent proxy manually 61
failed, troubleshooting 19
UNIX agent 57
local package 57
remote package 59
virtualization 60
vSphere Client Plug-in 63
user access 71
V
vCenter Server 143
data collections 143, 145
vCloud Director
vApp
collect 152, 158
credentials 155
filters 156
discover 158
network address translation 153
results 162
VCM actions tab; troubleshooting 166
VCM asset data
editing 239
VCM Summary and VCM Action
troubleshooting 166
VCM summary tab
troubleshooting 166
virtual directory
Remote 14
virtual machines
collect
vCloud Director
vApp 152
virtualization
collecting 151
results 152
collections 151
getting started 141
upgrading 60
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