7.2

Enable Time Synchronization on the vRealize Automation appliance
Clocks on the vRealize Automation appliance server and Windows servers must be synchronized to ensure
a successful installation.
If you see certicate warnings during this process, continue past them to nish the installation.
Procedure
1 Open a Web browser to the vRealize Automation appliance management interface URL.
2 Log in with the user name root and the password you specied when the appliance was deployed.
3 Select Admin > Time .
4 Select an option from the Time Sync Mode menu.
Option Action
Use Time Server
Select Use Time Server from the Time Sync Mode menu to use Network
Time Protocol . For each time server that you are using, enter the IP
address or the host name in the Time Server text box.
Use Host Time
Select Use Host Time from the Time Sync Mode menu to use
VMware Tools time synchronization. You must congure the connections
to Network Time Protocol servers before you can use VMware Tools time
synchronization.
5 Click Save .
6 Verify that the value in Current Time is correct.
You can change the time zone as required from the Time Zone Seing page on the System tab.
Configure the vRealize Automation Appliance
To prepare the vRealize Automation appliance for use, you congure host seings, generate an SSL
certicate, and provide SSO connection information.
Procedure
1 Open a Web browser to the vRealize Automation appliance management interface URL.
hps://vrealize-automation-appliance-FQDN:5480
2 Continue past the certicate warning.
3 Log in with the user name root and the password you specied when the appliance was deployed.
4 Select vRA  > Host .
Option Action
Resolve Automatically Select Resolve Automatically to specify the name of the current
host for the vRealize Automation appliance.
Update Host For new hosts, select Update Host. Enter the fully qualied domain
name of the vRealize Automation appliance, vra-
hostname.domain.name, in the Host Name text box.
For distributed deployments that use load balancers, select Update
Host. Enter the fully qualied domain name for the load balancer
server, vra-loadbalancername.domain.name, in the Host Name text
box.
N Congure SSO seings as described later in this procedure whenever you use Update Host to
set the host name.
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