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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

Configuring staging options in VCM


Staging options are where we set VCM to exactly redirect the VM to https://<SCR Server>/<Patch location>. So far, we have downloaded the patches and added a server as the repository, and now, we will set the name of the folder and configure machine group mappings to the staging options.

Getting ready

We are building on previous recipes, so before we go ahead with this recipe, we should have finished all of them. If there are any special machine groups required, then they should be ready before we start with this recipe.

How to do it...

Log in to the VCM server console and follow these steps to configure patch staging:

  1. Login as a VCM administrator in VCM console.

  2. Navigate to Administration | Settings | General Settings | PatchingUNIX | Patch Staging. Click on Add.

  3. Give a name and add a description.

  4. Under Repository Type, select Obtain patches from the patching repository : <Name of SCR server>.

  5. On the next page, provide details as follows:

    • Repository...