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Table 17-9. Options for Displaying Information About Machines
Option Description
-d desktop Specifies the name of the desktop pool.
-m machine Specifies the name of the virtual machine.
-u domain\user Specifies the login name and domain of the user.
Examples
Display information about the underlying machine for the desktop in the pool dtpool2 that is assigned to the
user Jo in the CORP domain and format the output as XML using ASCII characters.
vdmadmin -M -u CORP\Jo -d dtpool2 -xml -n
Display information about the machine machine3 and format the output as comma-separated values.
vdmadmin -M -m machine3 -csv
Configuring Domain Filters Using the -N Option
You can use the vdmadmin command with the -N option to control the domains that View Manager makes
available to end users.
Syntax
vdmadmin -N [-b
authentication_arguments
] -domains {-exclude | -include | -search} -domain
domain
-add [-s
connsvr
]
vdmadmin -N [-b
authentication_arguments
] -domains -list [-w | -n] [-xml]
vdmadmin -N [-b
authentication_arguments
] -domains -list -active [-w | -n] [-xml]
vdmadmin -N [-b
authentication_arguments
] -domains {-exclude | -include | -search} -domain
domain
-remove [-s
connsvr
]
vdmadmin -N [-b
authentication_arguments
] -domains {-exclude | -include | -search} -removeall [-s
connsvr
]
Usage Notes
Specify one of the -exclude, -include, or -search options to apply an operation to the exclusion list,
inclusion list, or search exclusion list respectively.
If you add a domain to a search exclusion list, the domain is excluded from an automated domain search.
If you add a domain to an inclusion list, the domain is included in the results of the search.
If you add a domain to an exclusion list, the domain is excluded from the results of the search.
Options
Table 17-10 shows the options that you can specify to configure domain filters.
Table 17-10. Options for Configuring Domain Filters
Option Description
-add
Adds a domain to a list.
-domain domain Specifies the domain to be filtered.
You must specify domains by their NetBIOS names and not
by their DNS names.
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