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Table Of Contents
- VMware View Integration
- 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
- Examples of Using View PowerCLI for Enhanced Functionality
- 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
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YoucanuseVMwareandMicrosoftcommandtoolstoexportandimportLDAPconfigurationdatainLDAP
DataInterchangeFormat(LDIF)filesfromandintoVMwareView.Thesecommandsareintendedforuseby
advancedadministratorswhowanttousescriptstoupdateconfigurationdatawithoutusingView
Administrator.Ifyou
wanttocreatescriptstoupdatetheViewconfiguration,VMwarerecommendsthatyou
useViewPowerCLIratherthanLDAPcommands.
Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:
“LDAPConfigurationData”onpage 49
“ExportLDAPConfigurationData”onpage 50
“ModifyLDAPConfigurationData”onpage 50
“ImportLDAPConfigurationData”onpage 53
“ImportLDAPConfigurationDataUsingtheLDIFDECommand”onpage 54
LDAP Configuration Data
AllViewconfigurationdataisstoredinanLDAPdirectory.EachViewConnectionServerstandardorreplica
instancecontainsalocalLDAPconfigurationrepositoryandareplicationagreementbetweeneachoftheView
ConnectionServerinstances.Thisarrangementensuresthatchangestoonerepositoryareautomatically
replicatedtoalltheother
repositories.
WhenyouuseViewAdministratortomodifytheconfigurationofVMwareView,theappropriateLDAPdata
intherepositoryisupdated.Forexample,ifyouaddadesktoppool,VMwareViewstoresinformationabout
users,usergroups,andentitlementsinLDAP.TheViewConnectionServerinstancesmanageotherLDAP
configuration
dataautomatically,andtheyusetheinformationintherepositorytocontrolViewoperations.
YoucanuseLDIFfilestoperformanumberoftasks.
TotransferconfigurationdatabetweenViewConnectionServerinstances.
TodefinealargenumberofViewobjects,suchasdesktoppools,andaddthesetoyourViewConnection
ServerinstanceswithoutusingViewAdministratortodothismanually.
TobackupyourViewconfigurationsothatyoucanrestorethestateofaViewConnectionServerinstance.
InViewManager3.1andlater,regularbackupsoftheLDAPrepositoryaremadeautomatically.
LDAPconfigurationdataistransferredasplainASCIItextandconformstotheInternetEngineeringTask
Force(IETF)RFC2849standard.
Customizing LDAP Data
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