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封面
版权页
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. Installing VCM
Introduction
Preparing our VCM deployment - installing SQL
Preparing our VCM deployment - installing and configuring IIS
Preparing our VCM deployment - configuring SSRS
Preparing our VCM deployment - installing other prerequisites
Installing VCM - single-tier deployment
Installing VCM - two-tier deployment
Installing VCM - three-tier deployment
VCM post-installation tasks - database fine tuning
Chapter 2. Configuring VCM to Manage Your Infrastructure
Adding a vCenter Server instance
Adding a vCloud Director and vShield instance
Collecting data from managed machines
Adding a discovery rule
Adding a network authority account to manage machines in multiple domains
Configuring a managing agent machine for virtual environment management
Installing an agent on Windows servers
Installing an agent on Linux servers
Creating machine groups
Chapter 3. Linux Patching
Installing SCR prerequisites
Installing the SCR Tool
Setting up the SCR configuration file
Scheduling content downloads
Configuring Apache
Configuring patching repository options in VCM
Configuring staging options in VCM
Configuring the SCR Tool base path for the patching repository
Creating a patch assessment template
Deploying patches on Linux machines – on demand
Deploying patches on Linux machines – scheduled
Chapter 4. Windows Patching
Configuring VCM to use Microsoft updates
An introduction to automated patching
Windows patching – on demand
Windows patching – scheduled
Patching machines in multi-domain environments and workgroups
Patching VM templates
Patching reports
Chapter 5. Software Provisioning for Windows
Installing a software repository on Windows
Deploying additional components on agents
Creating software packages
Publishing software packages to a repository
Adding a repository to VCM
Adding repository sources to package manager
Deploying a package
Chapter 6. Compliance Management
Importing compliance packs
Creating compliance rule groups
Creating custom compliance rules for Windows
Creating custom compliance rules for Linux
Creating custom compliance rules for virtualization
Modifying the default filter set
Creating compliance templates
Checking the compliance of the infrastructure
Exporting compliance rules
Compliance reports
Creating compliance exceptions
Chapter 7. Maintenance of VCM
Upgrading VCM from a previous version – in place
Upgrading VCM from a previous version – parallel
Migrating VCM from another domain
Applying a new license key
Upgrading VCM agents
Changing service account passwords
Managing users
Decommissioning VMs – manual VM purge
Decommissioning VMs – scheduled VM record purge
Chapter 8. Integration with vROps and Scheduling
Installing and configuration of vROps Management Pack for VCM
Configuring vROps – VCM compliance mapping and scheduling
Scheduling OS and compliance data collection
Scheduling compliance
Scheduling reports
