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Options
Table 16-7 shows the options that you can specify to list and display reports and views.
Table 16-7. Options for Listing and Displaying Reports and Views
Option Description
-enddate yyyy-MM-dd-HH:mm:ss Specifies a upper limit for the date of information to be
displayed.
-list
Lists the available reports and views.
-report report Specifies a report.
-startdate yyyy-MM-dd-HH:mm:ss Specifies a lower limit for the date of information to be
displayed.
-view view Specifies a view.
Examples
List the available reports and views in XML using Unicode characters.
vdmadmin -I -list -xml -w
Display a list of user events that occurred since August 1, 2010 as comma-separated values using ASCII
characters.
vdmadmin -I -report events -view user_events -startdate 2010-08-01-00:00:00 -csv -n
Assigning Dedicated Desktops Using the -L Option
You can use the vdmadmin command with the -L option to assign desktops from a dedicated pool to users.
Syntax
vdmadmin -L [-b authentication_arguments ] -d desktop -m machine -u domain \ user
vdmadmin -L [-b authentication_arguments ] -d desktop [-m machine | -u domain \ user ] -r
Usage Notes
View Manager assigns desktops to users when they first connect to a dedicated desktop pool. Under some
circumstances, you might want to preassign desktops to users. For example, you might want to prepare their
system environments in advance of their initial connection. After a user connects to a desktop that View
Manager assigns from a dedicated pool, that desktop remains assigned to the user for the life span of the
desktop source. You can assign a user to a single virtual machine in a dedicated pool.
You can assign a desktop to any entitled user. You might want to do this when recovering from the loss of
View LDAP data on a View Connection Server instance, or when you want to change ownership of a particular
desktop source.
After a user connects to a desktop that View Manager assigns from a dedicated pool, that desktop remains
assigned to the user for the life span of the desktop source. You might want to remove the assignment of a
desktop to a user who has left the organization, who no longer requires access to the desktop, or who will use
a desktop in a different desktop pool. You can also remove assignments for all users who access a desktop
pool.
Options
Table 16-8 shows the options that you can specify to assign a desktop to a user or to remove an assignment.
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