Administering View Cloud Pod Architecture

Managing a Cloud Pod Architecture
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You use View Administrator and the lmvutil command to view, modify, and maintain your Cloud Pod
Architecture environment. You can also use View Administrator to monitor the health of pods in the pod
federation.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“View a Cloud Pod Architecture Configuration,” on page 27
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“View Pod Federation Health in View Administrator,” on page 29
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“View Desktop Sessions in the Pod Federation,” on page 29
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“Determine the Effective Home Site for a User,” on page 30
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“Add a Pod to a Site,” on page 30
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“Modifying Global Entitlements,” on page 31
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“Remove a Home Site Association,” on page 34
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“Remove a Pod From the Pod Federation,” on page 34
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“Uninitialize the Cloud Pod Architecture Feature,” on page 35
View a Cloud Pod Architecture Configuration
You can use View Administrator or the lmvutil command to view information about global entitlements,
pods, and sites. You can use only the lmvutil command to view information about home sites.
This procedure shows how to use View Administrator to view information about global entitlements, pods,
and sites. To use the lmvutil command to view this information, see Chapter 5, “lmvutil Command
Reference,” on page 37.
Prerequisites
Become familiar with the lmvutil command authentication options and requirements and verify that you
have sufficient privileges to run the lmvutil command. See “lmvutil Command Authentication,” on
page 38.
Procedure
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To list all of the global entitlements in your configuration, in View Administrator, select Catalog >
Global Entitlements.
You can use the View Administrator user interface for any View Connection Server instance in the pod
federation.
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