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
Cryptography used in VCM Software Components
VCM uses various software components that also use cryptography. Microsoft IIS, Internet Explorer, and
SChannel (SSL/TLS) systems call the CryptoAPI, and thus use the Windows FIPS-validated modules. VCM
for Virtualization uses ActiveX COM components from WeOnlyDo! Software (WOD) for SSH and SFTP
services. WOD utilizes the FIPS 140-2 compliant OpenSSL library.
System
Platform
OpenSSLFIPS 1.1.2 OpenSSLFIPS 1.1.1 OpenSSLCrypt 0.9.7 Crypto++ CryptoAPI
UI Windows Used
VCMServer Windows Installed Used
Virt Proxy Windows Installed Used
AD Agent Windows Used
Win Agent Windows Used
UNIX Agent HP/UX Installed Installed
AIX Installed Installed
Solaris Installed Installed
Debian Installed Installed
Red Hat Installed Installed
SUSE Installed Installed
ESX Server All No cryptography modules are used or installed on ESX.
Table 1-1. Installed or Used Crytography Modules
Supported Windows and UNIX Platforms
Supported Windows and UNIX platforms, and their architectures, are listed in the VCM Hardware and
Software Requirements Guide. For information about TLS, see Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementation
for VCM on the Download VMware vCenter Configuration Manager.
vCenter Configuration Manager Installation and Getting Started Guide
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