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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

Publishing software packages to a repository


In the previous recipe, we created a package in the .crate format. The first thing to do after this is distribute the package to the repositories and from there to the managed machines' temporary folders to get it installed.

Now, we will publish the package we created in the previous recipe to the repositories for further processing.

Getting ready

We need a package created in Package Studio, such as the one we created in the previous recipe, and a repository installed by following the Installing a software repository on Windows recipe in order to complete this recipe.

How to do it...

We can continue where we left off in the previous recipe or relaunch Package Studio and open the previously created project file.

Follow these steps to publish the package to your repository:

  1. Click on the Manage Repositories button on the left-hand side. Once on the Repository page, click on Add Platform. Basically, this is how we can determine which package goes in which...