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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

Troubleshooting tools – Job Manager | History


The History tool is built in to VCM. With this tool, you can look at the status of the jobs completed earlier, and it gives you the logs to further troubleshoot.

Getting ready

You will need access to the VCM console and basic understanding of VCM to roam around the console.

How to do it...

To look at details about the jobs completed earlier, launch the VCM console and go to Administration Job Manager | History.

You have four options here: Instant Collections, Scheduled Collections, Other Jobs, and VCM remote. If you are not troubleshooting collection issues, then you most probably need to go to Other jobs and select the job in the top-left pane, and the details will be visible in the bottom pane.

Select Job History and click on View Details. If the job had multiple machines, you will get an option to choose either of them, and then you can see what went wrong.

In the following screenshot, when we hover over Status, we can see that there is something...