VMware VCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 5.3, Getting Started Manual

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Getting Started with VCM
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Getting Started with VCM
Before you can begin using VCM to manage the machines in your enterprise, you must complete the
following steps:
1. Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines.
2. Discover, License, and Install UNIX/Linux Machines.
3. Discover, License, and Install Mac OS X Machines.
4. Discover, License, and Collect Oracle Data from UNIX Machines.
5. Customize VCM for your Environment.
6. Set up and use VCM auditing.
Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
The following steps must be performed before collecting data from Windows machines:
1. Verifying Available Domains
2. Checking the Network Authority
3. Assigning Network Authority Accounts
4. Discovering Windows machines.
5. Licensing Windows machines.
6. Installing the VCM Agent on your Windows machines.
7. Performing an initial Windows collection.
8. Exploring the Windows collection results.
These steps are explained in the following subsections.
Verifying Available Domains
The VCM Collector must gain access to each domain in order to interact with all enterprise Windows
machines. During installation, VCM discovered all of the domains that the Network Authority Account
you provided had access to.
To view a list of these discovered domains in VCM, navigate to Administration | Settings | Network
Authority | Available Domains . VCM displays the available domains in the data grid.
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