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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

Migrating VCM from another domain


There are scenarios in which we need to migrate from one domain to another and can't afford to lose all the historical data of our managed machines. In this recipe, we will look at how to migrate the VCM server from an old domain to a new domain.

Getting ready

Make sure that the network and DNS (forward and reverse) is correct for the VCM Collector server. Add the VCM Collector to the new domain and create or identify the domain account that you want to use, as described in Service accounts subsection under the Understanding the requirements of VCM recipe in Chapter 1, Installing VCM.

How to do it...

To change VCM service accounts to run under a different domain account, follow these steps:

  1. On the VCM database server, run the following SQL update queries against the core VCM database. Make the appropriate name substitutions:

           DECLARE     @collector_service_account NVARCHAR(128) 
           SET @collector_service_account = N'domain-name\account-name'   ...