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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

Applying a new license key


You might have had a temporary license key when you installed VCM or the infrastructure might have grown more than you expected and you now need to provide new licenses to manage the infrastructure. This is where you need to provide new keys, and entering a new serial key is not a straightforward console option; there is a command-line utility called jlicense.cmd available to do this.

Getting ready

Get the new key to be used. You must have VCM admin access on the VCM console.

How to do it...

Log in to the VCM server with VCM admin privileges, and follow these steps:

  1. Launch CMD with administrative privileges and go to X:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VCM\Tools (X is the drive where VCM is installed).

  2. Run jlicense.cmd -k xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx (this is the new key you want to add to VCM), as shown in the following screenshot:

How it works...

It will append to the already available capacity of VCM, that is, the number of machines we can manage and the expiration date...