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Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Device Information
- Enabling HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing VirtualCenter for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- locked.properties
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 6 View Composer
To add an ODBC data source
1OntheVirtualCenterserverhostsystemselectStart>AdministrativeTools>Data
Source(ODBC).TheMicrosoftODBCDataSourceAdministratorwizardis
displayed.
2 SelecttheSystemDSNtab.
3ClickAddandselecttheappropriateOracledriverfromthelist(forexample,
Oracle in OraHome92).
4ClickFinish.TheOracleODBCDriverConfiguration
dialogboxisdisplayed.
5EnteraDSNtousewithViewComposer,adescriptionofthedatasource,anda
userIDtoconnecttothedatabase.
FortheTNSServiceName,selecttheGlobalDatabaseName(specifiedinthe
OracleDatabaseConfigurationAssistant)fromthedrop‐downmenu.
6ClickTest
ConnectiontoverifythedatasourceandclickOK.
Configuring an Oracle 10g Database and Data Source for
View Composer
ThefollowinginstructionsdescribehowtoaddanewViewComposerdatabasetoan
existingOracle10ginstanceandmakethisdatasourcevisibletoallothercomponents
runningonthehostsystem.
TheseinstructionsassumethatOracle10gisinstalledontheVirtualCenterserverhost.
Theinstructionsalsoassumethat
youareconfiguringthedatabaseonWindowsServer
2003SP1.SomestepsaredifferentifyouareconfiguringtheODBCdatasourceona
WindowsXPProfessionalSP2host.
To add a View Composer database to Oracle 10g
1OntheVirtualCenterserverhostsystemselectStart>AllPrograms>
Oracle‐OraDb10g_home>ConfigurationandMigrationTools>Database
ConfigurationAssistanttostarttheOracleDatabaseConfigurationAssistant.
2WhentheWelcomepageappears,clickNext.
3OntheOperationspage,selectCreateadatabaseandclickNext.
N
OTEYouwillusetheDSNduringViewComposerinstallation.