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To keep your View components available and running, you can perform a variety of maintenance tasks.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Backing Up and Restoring View Configuration Data,” on page 257
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“Monitor View Components,” on page 262
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“Monitor Desktop Status,” on page 263
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“Understanding View Manager Services,” on page 263
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“Add Licenses to VMware View,” on page 266
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“Update General User Information from Active Directory,” on page 266
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“Migrating View Composer with an Existing Database,” on page 266
Backing Up and Restoring View Configuration Data
You can back up your View Manager and View Composer configuration data by scheduling or running
automatic backups in View Administrator. You can restore your View configuration by manually importing
the backed-up View LDAP files and View Composer database files.
You can use the backup and restore features to preserve and migrate View configuration data.
Backing Up View Connection Server and View Composer Data
After
you complete the initial configuration of View Connection Server, you should schedule regular backups
of your View Manager and View Composer configuration data. You can preserve your View Manager and
View Composer data by using View Administrator.
View Manager stores View Connection Server configuration data in the View LDAP repository. View
Composer stores configuration data for linked-clone desktops in the View Composer database.
When you use View Administrator to perform backups, View Manager backs up the View LDAP configuration
data and View Composer database. Both sets of backup files are stored in the same location. The View LDAP
data is exported in LDAP data interchange format (LDIF). For a description of View LDAP, see “View LDAP
Directory,” on page 21.
View Manager can export configuration data from any View Connection Server instance.
If you have multiple View Connection Server instances in a replicated group, you only need to export the data
from one instance. All replicated instances contain the same configuration data.
Do not rely on using replicated instances of View Connection Server to act as your backup mechanism. When
View Manager synchronizes data in replicated instances of View Connection Server, any data lost in one
instance might be lost in all members of the group.
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