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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

Scheduling content downloads


OS vendors keep generating patches. We can't just log in to SCR and synchronize them manually; we can set a schedule and let SCR take care of downloading all the required patches.

Getting ready

The SCR VM must have access to the Internet and be configured as per the previous two recipes.

Configure the redhat-rt.properties file with the correct settings, such as user details for RHN and proxy details, and save it.

How to do it...

To set up the scheduling, we need to a create scripts that then can be run automatically.

Follow these steps to create the script and schedule it.

  1. Once logged in to the SCR server, go to the location where SCR is installed (for us, it is /opt/SCR)

  2. Copy the following content into the file:

           vi /opt/SCR/bin/start_all_nix_replication.sh
    

    press i

    Enter or copy the following content:

              #echo Running startup.sh hp-rt 
              #./startup.sh hp-rt 
              #echo Running startup.sh osx-rt 
              #./startup.sh osx-rt...