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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
Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
TheSviConfigutilityaccompaniestheViewComposerapplicationandoffers
View ManageradministratorstheabilitytoupgradeorrestoretheViewComposer
database.
ThepathtotheSviConfigexecutablefileis:
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View Composer\sviconfig.exe
ThecommandsdescribedinthissectionareintendedforexperiencedViewComposer
administrators,andareintendedtoresolveissuesrelatingtotheViewComposer
service.
Upgrade View Composer Database (databaseupgrade)
ThedatabaseupgradecommandisusedtoupgradeaViewComposer1.0schemato
version1.1.Inaddition,thecommandalsomigratestheinformationinthedatabase
fromViewComposer1.0toViewComposer1.1.
Use Case
DuringinstallationoftheViewComposerserviceonaVirtualCenterserverwherean
olderversionoftheserviceisalreadyinstalled,usersareofferedtheopportunityto
upgradetheservicemanually.IftheydecidetodothistheymustuseSviConfigto
upgradetheschemaandmigratetheirexistingdata.
Usage
BeforeyoucanupgradetheViewComposerdatabase,youmustfirstshutdownthe
ViewComposerservicerunningontheVirtualCenterserver.Restarttheserviceonce
youhavesuccessfullyexecutedthecommand.
SviConfigdatabaseupgradecommandinstructionsareissuedfromaWindows
commandpromptinthefollowingform:
sviconfig -operation=databaseupgrade
-DsnName=<target database source name (DSN)>
-Username=<database administrator username>
-Password=<database administrator password>
Forexample:
sviconfig -operation=databaseupgrade -dsnname=LinkedClone
-username=Admin -password=Pass