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4 Register the Management Agent certificate with the vRealize Automation appliance management site.
a Open a command prompt as an administrator and navigate to the Cafe directory on the machine
on which the Management Agent is installed at <vra-installation-dir>\Management
Agent\Tools\Cafe, typically C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Management
Agent\Tools\Cafe.
b Enter the Vcac-Config.exe RegisterNode command with options to register the Management
Agent identifier and certificate in one step. Include the Management Agent identifier you recorded
earlier as the value for the -nd option.
Table 2‑3. Required Options and Arguments for Vcac-Config.exe RegisterNode
Option Argument Notes
-vamih
"vra-va-hostname.domain.name:5480" The URL of the management site host,
including a port specification.
-cu
"root" The user name, which must be the root
user.
-cp
"password" Password for the root user as a quoted
string.
-hn
"machine-hostname.domain.name" The machine name of the Management
Agent host, including domain
information.
This value must match the hostname that
the current node is registered with in the
vRealize Automation appliance. Can be
seen with option 1 specified above for
the node ID or in the VAMI - Distributed
Deployment Information table. If it is not
the same value, the following error is
returned when the command is
executed: Failure: Cannot add duplicate
node id
00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000
00.
-nd
"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" Management Agent identifier.
-tp
"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Thumb print of the SSL certificate of the
management site host, as defined in the
-vamih parameter.
The following example shows the command format:
Vcac-Config.exe RegisterNode -v -vamih "vra-va-hostname.domain.name:5480"
-cu "root" -cp "password" -hn "machine-hostname.domain.name"
-nd "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
-tp "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
5 Restart the Management Agent.
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