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VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook

By : Abhijeet Shriram Janwalkar
Book Image

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook

By: Abhijeet Shriram Janwalkar

Overview of this book

VMware vRealize Configuration Manager (VCM) helps you to automate IT operations, manage performance, and gain visibility across physical and virtual infrastructure. It is continuously being used by enterprises to audit the configurations of the VMware infrastructure as well as the Windows, Linux, and UNIX operating systems. This book is filled with practical recipes through which you will learn about the latest features of vRealize Configuration Manager 5.8.X, starting with installation of various tiers of VCM followed by configuration management across physical and virtual servers. Throughout this book, you will explore how VCM can perform tasks such as patch management, compliance assessment, and software package distribution along with Machine filters for new platforms such as RHEL 7 and Windows 10. This book will ease your troubles while upgrading from the existing VCM to the latest version by providing you with step-by-step instructions about the process of migration along with upgrade and maintenance support. This book will help you understand how to integrate vRealize Configuration with other applications along with schedule management and also guide you on how to handle security issues. After reading this book, you will have a clear understanding of how VCM fits in the overall picture of the data center design from a patching and compliance perspective.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware vRealize Configuration Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
11
Understanding VCM Console

Collecting data from managed machines


Once we are done adding and configuring virtual environments, we can start collecting data, which can be further used to check compliance, create necessary machine groups, export reports, and so on.

We need to collect data from virtual environments as well as from all the machines that we plan to manage, that is, Windows or Linux servers.

Getting ready

All the servers we want to manage should be added to the VCM console, either by following earlier recipes for virtual infrastructures or by installing agents by following the recipes in this chapter.

How to do it...

We will split this recipe into two sections:

  • Collecting data from virtual infrastructures

  • Collecting data from managed machines

Collecting data from virtual infrastructures

To collect all data off a vCenter, vShield Manager, or vCD instance, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to VCM and follow the steps to collect virtual infrastructure data.

  2. You can be anywhere in the VCM console; make sure the machine group...