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
Option Description
Lock the machine after
installation
Ensures that VCMwill not uninstall the Agent or replace it with a
different version.
Reinstall Agent Overwrites an installed Agent.
6. On the Schedule page, select Run Action now and click Next.
You can schedule subsequent Agent installations to run later.
7. On the Important page, review the summary information and click Finish.
What to do next
n
Verify that jobs have finished running. Click Administration and select Job Manager > History >
Other Jobs > Past 24 Hours.
n
Enable UAC on the Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2, or Vista machines in your environment. See "Enable
UAC After VCM Agent Installation" on page 89.
n
Collect Windows data from VCM managed machines in your environment. See "Collect Windows
Data" on page 90.
Locate the Enterprise Certificate
Locate the Enterprise Certificate before you install the VCM Agent on the managed Windows machine.
VCM must access the Enterprise Certificate during the Agent installation.
If your Collector is operating in a full Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and the target machine can validate
the Collector root certificate (Enterprise Certificate), the .pem file is not required.
Procedure
1. Locate the Enterprise Certificate .pem file in the Collector's c:\Program Files
(x86)\VMware\VCM\CollecorData folder.
2. Navigate to the Collector data directory at c:\Program Files
(x86)\VMware\VCM\CollectorData.
3. If the certificate files are not in the default location, you must confirm the path to the files.
a. Click Administration.
b. Select Settings > General Settings > Collector.
c. Select Root directory for all collector files.
d. Confirm the file path in the Value column.
Manually Install the VCM Windows Agent
You can manually install the Windows Agent on the VCM managed machine by using the executable
(EXE) file or the Microsoft Installer (MSI) file that is supplied with VCM.
vCenter Configuration Manager Installation and Getting Started Guide
84 VMware, Inc.