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
;; cert (the first 4 bytes of the MD5 hash in least significant byte order).
;; The hash can be obtained with the command: openssl x509 -noout -in cert.pem
-hash
CApath = C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VCM\Tools\sTunnel\certs
;; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting
;debug = 7
;output = stunnel.log
;; verify = level
;; level 1 - verify peer certificate if present
;; level 2 - verify peer certificate
;; level 3 - verify peer with locally installed certificate
;; default - no verify
verify = 3
;; limit connections to certain ciphers
ciphers = AES128-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA :@STRENGTH
;; asm_hostname_or_ip_address must be replaced with the correct value for the
OS Provisioning Server
[fsrepo]
accept = 127.0.0.1:21307
connect = asm_hostname_or_ip_address:40607
4. Update the accept and connect values in the [fsrepo] section.
Value Action
accept = 21307
Update to accept = 127.0.0.1:21307
connect = asm_hostname_or_ip_
address:40607
Update to the hostname or the IP address of the OS
Provisioning Server
5. Run the commands from the Stunnel directory to register and start the Stunnel service.
cd c:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VCM\Tools\sTunnel
stunnel –install
net start stunnel
What to do next
Verify that the communication between the OS Provisioning server and the VCMCollector is properly
configured. See "Confirm Stunnel Configuration" on page 42.
Confirm Stunnel Configuration
You must confirm that Stunnel communication between the OS Provisioning server and the VCM
Collector is configured and active before provisioning machines.
vCenter Configuration Manager Installation and Getting Started Guide
42 VMware, Inc.