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2 On the vSphere Web Client main page, hover over the Home icon, click Home, and select System
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3 Under System Conguration, click Nodes.
4 Under Nodes, select a node and click the Manage tab.
5 Under Advanced, select Active Directory and click Leave.
6 Type the Active Directory user name and password.
7 Click OK to leave the Active Directory domain.
8 Click the Actions menu, and select Reboot to restart the appliance so that the changes are applied.
Add a User to the SystemConfiguration.BashShellAdministrators
Group
To enable access to the vCenter Server Appliance Bash shell by using the vSphere Web Client, the user you
use to log in must be a member of the SystemConguration.BashShellAdministrators group. By default, this
group is empty and you must add a user to the group manually.
Prerequisites
Verify that the user you use to log in to the vCenter Server instance is a member of the
SystemConguration.Administrators group in the vCenter Single Sign-On domain.
Procedure
1 Use the vSphere Web Client to log in as administrator@your_domain_name to the vCenter Server instance
in the vCenter Server Appliance.
The address is of the type hp://appliance-IP-address-or-FQDN/vsphere-client.
2 Click Administration.
3 Under Single Sign-On, click Users and Groups.
4 On the Groups tab, select the  group.
5 In the Group Members pane, click the Add member icon.
6 Double-click users from the list or type names in the Users text box.
7 Click OK.
Edit Access Settings to the vCenter Server Appliance
You can use the vSphere Web Client to enable local and remote access to the appliance.
Prerequisites
Verify that the user who logs in to the vCenter Server instance in the vCenter Server Appliance is a member
of the SystemConguration.Administrators group in vCenter Single Sign-On.
To enable access to the vCenter Server Appliance Bash shell, verify that the user name you use to log in to
the vCenter Server instance in the vCenter Server Appliance is a member of the
SystemConguration.BashShellAdministrators group. For information about adding a user to the
SystemConguration.BashShellAdministrators group, see Add a User to the
SystemConguration.BashShellAdministrators Group,” on page 24.
vCenter Server Appliance Configuration
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