4.5
Table Of Contents
- VMware View Integration Guide
- Contents
- Introduction
- Integrating with the Event Database
- Using View PowerCLI
- Introduction to View PowerCLI
- View PowerCLI Cmdlets
- View Administrator, View PowerCLI Cmdlet, and vdmadmin Operations
- View PowerCLI Cmdlet Parameters
- Examples of Using View PowerCLI Cmdlets
- Displaying Information About a View Connection Server Instance
- Updating the Configuration of a View Connection Server Instance
- Managing the Configuration of vCenter Servers in VMware View
- Managing Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Automatically Provisioned Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Linked-Clone Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Manually Provisioned Desktop Pools
- Creating Manual Unmanaged Desktop Pools
- Creating and Updating Desktops Provisioned by Terminal Servers
- Obtaining Information About Users and Groups from Active Directory
- Managing Desktop Entitlements
- Managing Local Desktops
- Managing Remote Sessions
- Managing Virtual Machines
- Displaying Information About Physical Computers
- Updating the Ownership of Machines
- Displaying Information About Events
- Managing the Global Configuration of VMware View
- Managing View Licenses
- Customizing LDAP Data
- Integrating with SCOM
- View Management Packs
- Name a View Connection Server Group
- Import the View MPs
- View Discovery Script
- Run the Discovery Script
- Display Discovered Objects
- Display Managed Objects
- Views and Monitors
- Enable a Proxy Agent on a Server
- Display Performance Data
- Display Information About an Alert
- Restart a Service
- Exclude a Domain from Connectivity Monitoring
- Close Alerts
- Class and Relationship Definitions
- Index
VMware View Integration Guide
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Import LDAP Configuration Data Using the LDIFDE Command
YoucanimportconfigurationdatafromanLDIFfileintoastandardorreplicaViewConnectionServerby
runningtheMicrosoftLDIFDEcommand.
Inrelease4.5,youshouldusethevdmimportcommandtoimportconfigurationdata.Thevdmimport
commanddoesnotdisplaythelargenumberoferrormessagesthatareproduced
byrunningtheLDIFDE
command.See“ImportLDAPConfigurationData”onpage 49.
TheLDIFDEcommanddoesnotupdate,create,ordeleteanyLDAPrecordsthatarenotdefinedintheLDIF
file.ThisallowsyoutocustomizeanLDIFfilesothatonlyselectedrecordsareaffectedwhenyouimportthe
file.
FormoreinformationaboutusingtheLDIFDEcommand,gotohttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/237677.
InViewManager3.1orearlier,youmustbeloggedintoaViewConnectionServerinstanceasan
administrator,andbeamemberoftheLocalAdministratorsusergroup.
InVMwareView4.5,youmustbeloggedintoa
ViewConnectionServerinstanceasauserinthe
AdministratorsroletoimportconfigurationdatasuccessfullyintotheViewconfigurationrepository.
To import configuration data into a View Connection Server instance using LDIFDE
1 SelectStart>AllPrograms>ADAM>ADAMToolsCommandPrompt.
2Atthecommandprompt,typetheLDIFDEcommandandspecifyanexistingLDIFfileasanargumentto
the -foption.
LDIFDE -i -f myexport.LDF -s 127.0.0.1 -z
EntertheotheroptionstotheLDIFDEcommandasshownintheexample.
TheconfigurationofyourViewConnectionServerinstanceisupdatedwiththedatafromthefile,andthe
numberofrecordsthathavebeensuccessfullyupdatedisdisplayed.Alargenumberoferrormessages
aredisplayedthatindicate
wheneveranexistingentryintherepositoryhasbeenoverwritten.Sucherrors
canbeignored.Errorsarealsodisplayedifsomerecordscouldnotbeupdatedbecauseyourrolehas
insufficientprivileges.