Book Image

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

Adding a repository to VCM 


Once a package has been created and published on the repository, we need to assign the repository to managed machines so that they can download and install the package.

To view information about packages and package manager in VCM, we must collect package manager data from managed machines.

Getting ready

We need the agents ready with package manager installed, that is, we need to follow the Deploying additional components on agents recipe, and the repository should be published with the software we plan to provision by following the previous recipe.

How to do it...

This is a two-step process. In the first step, we will collect data from all the managed machines that need the software to be provisioned and check their status, and in the second step, we will collect data from the repository servers to check which packages are available for provisioning.

Collecting software provisioning package manager data

We need to run this against all the machines on which we need...