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 Windows machines to license.
4. Click License.
5. Verify that the Windows machines to license appear in the Selected list.
Use the arrows to move the Windows machines.
6. When you initially license Windows machines, do not select the Install VCM Agents for the selected
machines check box.
7. Click Next to view your Product License Details.
The licensed Windows machine count increases by the number of licensed machines.
8. Click Next.
VCM confirms that the licenses you requested will be applied to the selected Windows machines.
9. Click Finish.
What to do next
Disable User Account Control (UAC) on the Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2, or Vista machines in your
environment. See "Disable User Account Control for VCM Agent Installation" on page 81.
Disable User Account Control for VCM Agent Installation
Disable User Account Control (UAC) on Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2, and Vista target machines before you
install the VCM Agent.
The UAC setting on Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2, and Vista machines prevents VCM from installing the
Agent on these target machines. You can disable UAC on a single Windows machine or a group of
machines.
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"Disable User Account Control for a Windows Machine" on page 81
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"Disable User Account Control By Using Group Policy" on page 82
Disable User Account Control for a Windows Machine
The User Account Control (UAC) on Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2, or Vista machines prevents VCM from
installing the Agent on the target machines. Before you install the Agent on a Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2, or
Vista machine, you must disable the UAC, and then re-enable UAC after you finish the installation.
This procedure disables UAC on a Windows 2008 R2 machine.
Procedure
1. On the target Windows 2008 R2 machine, click Start > Run.
2. In the Run dialog box, type msconfig and click OK.
3. In the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
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