VMware VCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 5.3, Getting Started Manual

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5. Click Next . The Product License Details page appears.
6. The licensed machine count has increased by the number of machines that you have selected to license.
7. Click Next . The Important page appears.
8. Review the information.
9. Click Finish .
Installing the Agent on Mac OS X Machines
Before collecting data from your Mac OS X machines, you must install the VCM Agent on each licensed
Mac OS X machine.
I
MPORTANT
The Collector should be installed before the Agents are installed. The configuration
parameter CSI_USER assigns the account used to run the Agent daemon or service. If the parameter is
changed, the user account must not have a valid login shell. You must be logged in to a target Mac OS X
machine as root, or have sudo as root.
N
OTE
If you have copied your custom configuration file from a previous installation, follow the optional
step provided in this procedure. If you are using a custom configuration file, perform the installation in
Silent Mode.
Installing the Agent on Mac OS X machines is a manual operation. The Agent is packaged as a Universal
Binary Installer.
Use the following steps to install the Agent.
1. Verify that the machine on which you intend to install the agent has enough free disk space. For more
information, see the VCM Hardware and Software Requirements Guide .
2. When VCM is installed on the VCM Collector machine, the necessary Agent packages are created in
the following locations:
\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VCM\Installer\Packages
or
\Program Files\VMware\VCM\Installer\Packages
.
The following agent binaries are available in these locations for the associated operating systems:
Operating System Version Agent Binary
Mac OS X (Version 10.4 and 10.5)
CMAgent.<version>.Darwin
3. Copy the installation package to the machine on which you want to install the agent. You can use
ftp
,
sftp
, or
cp
using an NFS share.
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If you use ftp to copy the package to your machine, be sure to use binary mode.
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