5.0
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Management Assistant Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction to vMA
- Getting Started with vMA
- Hardware Requirements
- Software Requirements
- Required Authentication Information
- Deploy vMA
- Configure vMA at First Boot
- vMA Console and Web UI
- Configure vMA for Active Directory Authentication
- Configure Unattended Authentication for Active Directory Targets
- Enable the vi-user Account
- vMA User Account Privileges
- Add Target Servers to vMA
- Running vSphere CLI for the Targets
- Reconfigure a Target Server
- Remove Target Servers from vMA
- Modifying Scripts
- Configure vMA to Use a Static IP Address
- Configure vMA to Use a DHCP Server
- Setting the Time Zone
- Shut Down vMA
- Delete vMA
- Troubleshooting vMA
- Update vMA
- Configure Automatic vMA Updates
- vMA Interfaces
- Index
VMware, Inc. 5
ThevSphereManagementAssistantGuideexplainshowtodeployandusevMAandincludesreference
informationforvMACLIsandlibraries.
Toviewthecurrentversionofthisbook,aswellasallVMwareAPIandSDKdocumentation,goto
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html.
Revision History
Thisbook,thevSphereManagementAssistantGuide,isrevisedwitheachreleaseoftheproductorwhen
necessary.Arevisedversioncancontainminorormajorchanges.Table 1summarizesthesignificantchanges
ineachversionofthisbook.
Intended Audience
ThisbookisforadministratorsanddeveloperswithsomeexperiencesettingupaLinuxsystemandworking
inaLinuxenvironment.AdministratorscanusethevMAautomatedauthenticationfacilitiesandthesoftware
packagedwithvMAtointeractwithESXihostsandvCenterServersystems.Developerscancreateagentsthat
interactwith
ESXihostsandvCenterServersystems.
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
VMwareTechnicalPublicationsprovidesaglossaryoftermsthatmightbeunfamiliartoyou.Fordefinitions
oftermsastheyareusedinVMwaretechnicaldocumentationgotohttp://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
About This Book
NOTEThetopicsinwhichthisdocumentationusestheproductnameʺESXiʺareapplicabletoallsupported
releasesofESXandESXi.
Table 1. Revision History
Revision Description
20JAN2012 Chapter2,section“ConfigureUnattendedAuthenticationforActiveDirectoryTargets”isupdated.
24AUG2011 vMA5.0release.
13JUL2010 vMA4.1release
16NOV2009 Chapter1isenhancedtoprovide detailsaboutvMA’senhancedcapabilities,authenticationmechanisms
andthechangestothesamples.
Chapter2providesinformationaboutconfiguringvMAforActiveDirectory.Italsoexplainshow
to
reconfigureatargetserver.
Chapter3providesinformationaboutthenewvifptargetandvifp reconfigurecommands.Italso
describestheVmaTargetLiblibrary.
21MAY2009 vMA4.0documentation
27OCT2008 VIMA1.0documentation