User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- VCM Installation and Getting Started Guide
- Updated Information
- About This Book
- Preparing for Installation
- Installing VCM
- Using Installation Manager
- Installing and Configuring the OS Provisioning Server and Components
- Installing the Operating System Provisioning Server
- Preparing Boot Images for Windows Provisioning
- Copy the VCM Certificate to the OS Provisioning Server for Linux Provisioning
- Importing Distributions into the OS Provisioning Server Repository
- Configuring the OS Provisioning Server Integration with the VCM Collector
- Maintaining Operating System Provisioning Servers
- Upgrading or Migrating vCenter Configuration Manager
- Upgrade and Migration Scenarios
- Prerequisites
- Back up Your Databases
- Back up Your Files
- Back up Your Certificates
- Software Supported by the VCM Collector
- Migration Process
- Prerequisites
- Foundation Checker Must Run Successfully
- Use the SQL Migration Helper Tool
- Migrate Only Your Database
- Replace your existing 32-Bit Environment with the Supported 64-bit Environment
- How to Recover Your Machine if the Migration is not Successful
- Migrate a 32-bit environment running VCM 5.3 or earlier to VCM 5.4
- Migrate a 64-bit environment running VCM 5.3 or earlier to VCM 5.4
- Migrate a split installation of VCM 5.3 or earlier to a single-server install...
- After You Migrate VCM
- Upgrade Process
- Upgrading Existing Windows Agents
- Upgrading Existing Remote Clients
- Upgrading Existing UNIX Agents
- Upgrading VCM for Virtualization
- Getting Started with VCM Components and Tools
- Getting Started with VCM
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Verifying Available Domains
- Checking the Network Authority
- Assigning Network Authority Accounts
- Discovering Windows Machines
- Licensing Windows Machines
- Installing the VCM Windows Agent on your Windows Machines
- Performing an Initial Collection
- Exploring Windows Collection Results
- Getting Started Collecting Windows Custom Information
- Discover, License, and Install UNIX/Linux Machines
- Discover, License, and Install Mac OS X Machines
- Discover, License, 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
- Getting Started with VCM Management Extensions for Assets
- Getting Started with VCM Service Desk Integration
- Getting Started with VCM for Active Directory
- Accessing Additional Compliance Content
- Installing and Getting Started with VCM Tools
- Maintaining VCM After Installation
- Troubleshooting Problems with VCM
- Index
The VCM Remote Client can be installed using any of several methods, including a manual installation
(provided below), "Installing the Remote Client using a Command Line" on page 153, or "Installing the
Remote Client using Windows Remote Commands" on page 154. All the methods are described in this
section.
Additionally, communication between the Collector and the Remote Client is secured using Transport
Layer Security (TLS) certificates. You can use the Enterprise certificate generated by VCM or you can use
an existing Enterprise certificate. The steps below include copying the VCM generated certificate to the
Remote Client; however, if you have an existing Enterprise certificate in the certificate store with a known
trust relationship with the Collector, you do not need to perform those steps. By default, the installation of
a Windows VCM base agent in HTTP mode adds the Collector's Enterprise Certificate to the certificate
store of the client system, and this certificate can also be used by the VCM Remote client.
NOTE The VCM Remote Client can be deployed to multiple machines in your enterprise using VCM’s
Remote Command feature. See "Installing the Remote Client using Windows Remote Commands" on
page 154 for more information.
Installing the Remote Client manually
1. Create a folder on the target mobile workstation and copy the following files from the Collector to the
target folder:
n
CM Remote Client.msi: Located on the Collector at [install
path]\VMware\VCM\AgentFiles.
n
CM_Enterprise_Certificate_xxx.pem: Located on the Collector at [install
path]\VMware\VCM\CollectorData.
2. Double click the CM Remote Client.msi copied to the mobile workstation. The VCM Remote Client
Setup installation wizard appears.
3. Click Next. The Installation Folder page appears.
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